"The winter session of Parliament is commencing from November 22. I will tell Mamata Banerjee that If she has guts, let her party bring a no-confidence motion in the House and see which party stands here. Congress is not afraid to face the election," Chowdhury said.
A Congress MP from Behrampore in Murshidabad district, Chowdhury, who has been inducted as MOS, Railways, said this when asked to comment on Mamata Banerjee's recent statement that the Manmohan Singh government would fall within six months.
With no love lost between him and Mamata, Chowdhury quoting the Prime Minister said that elections would be held in due course as the mandate of the people was that UPA should complete its full five-year term.
Chowdhury, who singled out Mamata for criticism as a former Railway minister, said, "It will take a number of railway budgets to implement the series of announcments made by her during her tenure in the Railway ministry.
"Everything was on paper. She has announced projects without making adequate monetary provisions. She was a failure as a railway minister," Chowdhury claimed.
Chowdhury said Bengal CM had herself allayed the fears about the fate of the ongoing railway projects in Bengal because of her anti-Centre posturing, saying she had thought about all that.
The Planning Commission has already approved the plans for 14 railway factories that she proposed as the railway minister and funds have already been allocated, she herself had assured, Chowdhury pointed out. (MORE)