The Left and the Congress leadership of Bengal have accused Mamata Banerjee and her

Trinamool Congress of trying to "destroy the adhesive" within the Indian National Democratic Inclusive Alliance so as to sustain its "old camaraderie with the NDA," more so the BJP - all to evade arrest in a catena of scams being investigated by the central agencies.

On TMC's absence from Monday's meeting of INDIA partners senior CPI(M) central committee member and former MP Sujan Chakrabarty said it was "Mamata Banerjee's tactic of subverting the Opposition alliance from within," questioning her party's silence on the Adani issue.

Another senior leader of the CPI(M) Samik Lahiri said Banerjee did not want to embarrass the BJP Government in Parliament and also she did not want to incur the wrath of the corporate house which was her party was avoiding a statement on the issue.

On why she would run with the hare and hunt with the hound, the leader said that "it suits her type of politics which is "cloaked by a thick smog of corruption. Any department the TMC touches - from land to education to Health to housing to rural roads and name them - they

convert them into gold mines not for the State or the society but for their own families … so backing BJP is Mamata Banerjee's compulsion this is why we have been telling that she can never be a friend of the INDIA alliance, she is an agent of NDA here."

Referring to the Monday's TMC national working committee meeting a Pradesh Congress leader requesting anonymity said "Mamata Banerjee is working on two goals: first she is keeping her chances to grab the Prime Minister's chair when the chance comes alive and second she is keeping BJP in good humor so as to evade actions by the central agencies in Bengal... otherwise why her party would skip such meetings where policies on floor coordination was being discussed this means she is working on cross purposes."

According to inside sources the TMC leaders in Delhi led by Abhishek Banerjee, Derek O' Brien have been in close touch with a number of INDIA partners. Parallel meetings outside INDIA were being planned to chalk out parallel strategies in the House.

Incidentally senior party MP Kalyan Banerjee had on Sunday advised the Congress to shed its ego and support the Bengal Chief Minister as the leader of INDIA alliance. "All the Opposition parties nationally should accept Mamata Banerjee as their leader. She should be the face of opposition nationally. Some parties should set aside their ego and accept Mamata Banerjee as the leader of the Opposition against the BJP. Look at the by-election results, why only the TMC is capable of defeating the BJP and the some parties claiming the leadership are repeatedly

failing to do so…they should understand and accept Mamata Banerjee as the leader," he said.

When asked to comment on Kalyan's statement and the TMC's alleged "betrayal" state minister said, "though we have been asked not to speak out of turn, I must refute such charges... TMC is not subverting INDIA… it is contributing to the cause of the opposition. We are not part of the Congress so as to follow their diktats … we are part of the Alliance and have every right to follow our own course programmes best suited to the interest our India, Bengal and our party."