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Rahul’s comments didn’t hurt alliance: Mamata

Kolkata: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has said that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s olive branch to the Left for a post-poll tie-up did not hurt the alliance between the two parties in West Bengal.

“The TC-Congress alliance is intact and there is no adverse impact on the alliance by Rahul Gandhi’s comments. There is no confusion on the alliance,” Ms. Banerjee told PTI on her return from election campaign on Wednesday night. She accused the Communist Party of India (Marxist) of having launched a campaign to “malign” the TC-Congress alliance and asked the people of West Bengal not to be misled by “this propaganda.”

Her remarks came in the backdrop of reports quoting her as saying that she would quit the UPA if the Congress took the support of the CPI(M) to form a government at the Centre after the Lok Sabha poll.

Her party colleagues Partho Chatterjee and Dinesh Trivedi gave vent to their displeasure about Mr. Rahul’s overtures to the Left and opposed any alliance at the Centre that includes Congress and the CPI(M). PCC Working President Pradip Bhattacharya said, “There is no problem with regard to the alliance.” — PTI

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