Explaining her stand, she said her party had only made seat adjustments with the BJP in West Bengal, but not entered into any alliance with it. The adjustment was necessary for ``our main fight against the CPI(M)'', she said. Releasing her party's manifesto at a press conference here today, she said her party would align with ``whoever helps us fight the Marxists in this state and whoever helps us in this from Delhi''.

Justifying her stand on joining a Vajpayee-led ministry this time, she said her party had not been part of the Vajpayee government after the 1998 elections because ``we had no mandate from the people of Bengal that time to join the government''. But the Vajpayee government had met 80 per cent of her Bengal Packagedemands for the economic development of the state.

Besides, it had initiated action against the Left Front government's ``financial irregularities'' and the CPI(M)'s ``terror tactics'', she claimed.

Besides, the Vajpayee government kept a ``clean record'' on maintaining communal harmony, despite ``some conspiracies (against Christians) in Gujarat and Orissa''. Hence her change of mind. While her manifesto was effusive in its praise of Vajpayee, it also carried a thinly veiled message that the Prime Minister was more acceptable to her than the BJP. ``He (Vajpayee) alone is a suitable candidate for prime ministership,'' she said.