Mamata will join an alliance led by either Cong or BJP: Mishra

Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee is keeping all options open to rejoin either a BJP or a Congress-led alliance after the Lok Sabha elections, senior CPI(M) leader Surjya Kanta Mishra said here today.
"Mamata is playing a got up game with both Congress and BJP to rejoin an alliance led by either of them. The two major powers are also keeping their doors open to her. But the Left is the only alternative and dependable force," Mishra, Leader of the Opposition in West Bengal Assembly, said in an interview to a Bengali news channel.
"Her dream to become a third alternative will never be a reality, as her target to become a contender for the Prime Minister's post through social activist Anna Hazare has already nosedived," Mishra observed.

To a question on the Left's support to Congress-led UPA at the Centre, Mishra said, "As long as LF backed the Congress- led government from outside, the Manmohan Singh government was well under control. But with TMC support, the UPA had undertaken all anti-people policies."
"Also we supported the Congress-led government with a specific purpose, which was to keep the BJP at bay," Mishra claimed.
"But despite her allegations against BJP, it is known to all how the TMC supremo paved way for BJP in Bengal. She doesn't have any principle," he said.

"In case of a free and fair election, it will be proved that the Left still enjoys more support from people in Bengal than TMC," the CPI(M) Politburo member claimed.

Mishra was confident that the Left would enjoy people's support as they opposed all anti-people policies consistently.
He also believed that all non-Congress, non-BJP secular forces would ultimately come to strengthen this third alternative in the interest of the people.
To a question, Mishra said instances were there that the TMC got a walkover by both the Congress and BJP, but it never happened that the Left, BJP and Congress had a tacit alliance.
"Law and order in the state has also reached its worst with no action taken against offenders in any of the cases of rape or attack on women starting from Park Street to Kamduni," Mishra stressed.