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“We are not in the UPA government because of anyone’s mercy, we are there on our own strength and with the blessings of ma-mati-manush. If any political party thinks we have reached Delhi with their help, it is wrong,” said Banerjee, whose party has 19 MPs in the Lok Sabha, at an election meeting ahead of the May 30 civic polls.
She said her party has in the past too failed to ally with Congress, which won six of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state. The number of seats won by Congress and Trinamool proved which party the people sided with most, she said.
On Tuesday, Pranab Mukherjee had said at an election rally that it would be wrong to believe that the Congress would be reduced to a signboard organisation in West Bengal.
“The Congress has also contributed immensely and the two parties won 25 seats,” Mukherjee had said and noted that it would be wrong to say that the Trinamool got so many seats in Lok Sabha polls on its own strength.
Meanwhile, Mamata Banerjee claimed that she was not aspiring for the chief minister’s post. “I am not fighting for personal gain. The chief minister’s post has been tarnished,” she said.
Without naming the Congress or BJP, she said, “These forces unlike the Trinamool did not sustain their movements at Nandigram and Singur, but surfaced like migratory birds during election time only to divide votes and help CPM.” Describing the CPM as an “opportunistic party”, she said: “It sometime begs L K Advani and sometimes the Congress.”
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It was trhe mistake of the INC to have propped Mamta Bannerjee after she had alliance with the BJP. The INC should have left her in the soup to churn to explain why she had an alliance with the communal BJP. That was a mistake. Even now much is lost if the INC keeps it's stand and let Mamta get skewed in her own confusions. If the INC, and I mean Pranab Mukherjee, who is it's tallest leader in Bengal, remains steadfast in their stand Mamta will be EXPOSED in no time. I bet.