The Trinamool Congress has vehemently objected to the “false claims”allegedly made by Rahul Gandhi about Mamata Banerjee advising himagainst allying with the left Front.
Senior Trinamool leaders like Derek O’Brian said such false claims were unwarranted and that if the Congress did not refrain from making such claims his party would be forced to protest this in abefitting manner.
Trinamool leaders like Partho Chatterjee and Jyotipriya Mullick said the Congress had been rendered into a billboard in Bengal and so “by selling white lies they are once again trying become relevant before the Assembly elections.”
“The Trinamool was not at all bothered about any “immoral alliance between ideologically opposite parties. If they do so people of Bengal will give them a befitting reply. They will never tolerate such lies against their beloved Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who has done so much for Bengal in the past 55 months,” said Mullick a senior Minister in Banerjee Cabinet.
“If the two parties come together the Congress will split and many of their voters will vote for the Trinamool and eventually our number of seats will go beyond 250-mark,” he said.
Gandhi, who on Monday had discussed electoral alliance with a host of Bengal leaders, had reportedly told them that Banerjee had recently advised him against allying with the left. She said so when the two leaders were in Patna at the swearing-in ceremony of Nitish Kumar.
Meanwhile, former Bengal Congress president Manas Bhunia on Wednesday met the high command and reportedly conveyed his desire of going it alone in the elections.