In what looked like an addition of insult to injury the Trinamool Congress once again targeted the Congress for failing to provide leadership to the Indian National Democratic Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) in the elections after the tri-colour party's loss in the Haryana Assembly elections.

Without naming the Congress senior TMC leader Kunal Ghosh on Wednesday said that "the anti-BJP parties should now introspect as to why they are repeatedly failing to defeat the BJP ... every time tall claims are made and finally they fall flat in elections."

Iterating as to how in Bengal the TMC repeatedly defeats the BJP Ghosh said, "in Bengal we don't make hollow claims … when our leader Mamata Banerjee said that she will defeat the BJP she did it … she walked her talk and kept her promise but it is not so in other places … the parties that are claiming leadership of the INDIA alliance should not start thinking of their failures and decide their next course of action … they should find out the reason why they are unable to defeat a part despite favourable political situations."

Saying that "some parties" should stop their arrogant approach of looking down on regional parties the TMC leader said, "before the elections an impression was created that some party was winning and others are losing but final results were different … this is the result of arrogance and nothing else."

The TMC has for long been claiming the leadership of the INDIA block often saying Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee should be playing a far bigger role in Delhi because she had proved times and again that she is the only leader who can defeat the BJP and no one else.

The party had made its views clear in its mouthpiece Jago Bangla after the Bengal Chief Minister returned to power with thumping majority in 2021 winning 214 seats as against the BJP's 77.