Mamata Banerjee, who reportedly threatened to walk out of the alliance, refused to comment on what Rahul Gandhi said.
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, who reportedly threatened to walk out of the alliance with Congress if it has any post-poll tie up with CPI(M), on Wednesday, refused to comment on it.
"I am telling you I will not comment," she said when asked about a report quoting her in a section of the press that if the Congress took Left support to form a government, her party could walk out of the alliance.
Banerjee had reportedly stated that if the Congress joins hands with the CPI(M) or the Left after the polls, "we cannot continue to be with them (Congress). There is no question of co-existence for us and the CPI(M)."
At a press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday, Rahul Gandhi appeared to reach out to present and former BJP allies such as JD-U, TDP and AIADMK and expressed confidence that the Left parties would back Manmohan Singh as prime minister.
"I won't make any comment on what Rahul Gandhi has said," she said when asked to comment on Gandhi's statement that the Congress looked forward to working with the Left parties in the post-poll scenario, while expressing confidence that the communists would accept Manmohan Singh as prime minister in a Congress-led disposition.
However, senior Trinamool leader Partho Chatterjee made it clear that his party was opposed to any alliance at the Centre which includes the CPI(M).
"This is a very untimely comment made by the Congress leader when we are fighting the battle jointly against the CPI(M) in the last lap of elections in West Bengal," he said.
"The assessment by the Congress leader about the Left will break the morale and jeopardise the strength of the Congress-Trinamool alliance in the state," he said.
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