By A Correspondent / NEW DELHI
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today resolved to fight shoulder to shoulder with the Congress and the Left parties to take on the BJP at the centre. “We will fight together with the Congress and the Left.at the national level… we will fight in state but not nationally,” Ms Banerjee said at the mega opposition rally here.
Ms Banerjee’s party had ended the 35-year rule of the Left Front in Bengal. Her relations with the state leaders of the Congress – the party she broke away from in 1997 – is still acrimonious.
Even today, her party faced attack from senior state leader Adhir Chowdhury over the Saradha Ponzi scheme – one of her key flashpoints with the centre. It was central to her exchange with UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi in Parliament.
“We will remember,” the upset Chief Minister declared when she met UPA chairperson and former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi in Parliament. “We are accusing each other but we are friends,” Sonia Gandhi said to Mamata Banerjee.