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A face-saving decision: Mamata

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KOLKATA: The Left’s decision to withdraw support to the United Progressive Alliance government “is a face-saving formula that comes at a time when prices are rising and elections are knocking on the door,” Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee said here on Tuesday.

“But when the elections are over, the Left parties and the Congress will get together again on the pretext of championing the cause of secular politics. Yet, we are happy with this decision of the Left parties [to withdraw support to the UPA government].”

“Those in West Bengal and in Kerala and Tripura view the Left parties differently than those in the rest of the country as they are in power in these States. We, in West Bengal, have been subjected to State terrorism for years,” Ms. Banerjee alleged.

She reiterated her party’s stand of “maintaining equidistance from the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party,” in national politics, and described the Trinamool as a “small regional party that is for India and for development.”

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