Brushing aside her differences with Pranab Mukherjee, Banerjee said she would like to warn those spreading rumours about the alliance.
Scotching rumours that the sharp criticism of a hike in the prices of petro products by her party has put unease in the alliance with Congress, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today stressed that the coalition would continue "despite obstacles".
"The Trinamool Congress-Congress alliance will continue," Banerjee, also the railway minister, said in an interview to a TV channel.
Brushing aside her differences with Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on the hike of petroleum products prices, Banerjee said she would like to warn those spreading rumours about the alliance and added that she was interested in ensuring freeing Bengal from "CPI(M) misrule".
"If Pranabda becomes the chief minister in the next Assembly elections, I am ready to serve as his clerk...To me ministry is not a big thing . People of Bengal know me. I am not interested in posts," she observed.
Asked what would happen to the railway ministry if she became the next chief minister of the state, Banerjee said, "I don't answer questions of 'ifs' and 'buts'. We have 20 MPs and the Railway department will continue to remain with us."
Congress working president Pradip Bhattacharjee said he along with other office-bearers of the party's state unit had a discussion with Pranab Mukherjee today on seat-sharing with Trinamool Congress for the upcoming elections to 82 municipalities prior to the assembly election next year.
He said in the discussion Mukherjee stressed on district-level discussion between the two parties about seat arrangement and that, if necessary, he would hold parleys.
Asked if Trinamool's street protests against petroleum products price hike had caused a schism in the alliance, he said every political party had a right to ventilate its opinion on issues affecting people, but Congress feels the price rise was needed because of rise in the prices of crude oil.
On whether Congress would start a counter-campaign against Trinamool Congress, he said, "We will do our campaign in our own way to convince the people."
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