The party has already tasted success in the Serampore municipality in Hooghly, where it won over two Independents to attain a majority in the “hung” House.

Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee has asked her party’s district leaders, especially in Hooghly and North 24-Parganas, to speed up the process and the question of an alliance will come only if her party cannot form a particular board on its own.

In Serampore municipality, where Trinamool got 13 of the 29 seats, the party managed to woo two Independent councillors who visited Banerjee’s Kalighat residence yesterday and formally joined her party.

In Hooghly, of the 12 municipal bodies, Trinamool had a clear majority in seven and now with Serampur in its kitty, it can form boards in eight on its own. Three municipalities are still “hung”. The Left has got one.

Tapan Dasgupta, Trinamool’s Hooghly unit president, said, “We are trying to form the boards by ourselves in a majority of municipalities. In some places, we are holding talks with Independents and others. In Serampur, we have got success.”

In North 24-Parganas too, district Trinamool leaders are trying to wean away a section of Congress councillors. Here, Trinamool needs the Congress support to form boards in eight municipalities.

“Just wait and watch. We are trying our best to look for alternatives. If they fail, we need Mamata Banerjee’s nod to go for an alliance with

Congress,” said Jyotipriyo Mullick, Trinamool MLA and party’s observor for North 24-Parganas district.

In Birbhum too, party leaders are working overtime to find an alternative to an alliance with Congress in the three municipalities of Suri, Rampurhat and Bolpur, which are “hung”.

All boards where civic polls were held have to be formed by June-end.