Up to Mamata to choose NDA or Cong: Advani

NDA's prime ministerial candidate L K Advani today said its erstwhile ally, Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress, has to decide whether it wants to rejoin the NDA or stay with the Congress.        

"Mamata has to decide whether she wants to join the NDA or stay with the Congress," Advani told reporters at the airport here after arriving in the city to campaign for the parliamentary poll.        

"It was she who decided to leave the NDA and have a tie-up with the Congress for the Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal," he said. 

 "But one thing is sure, the BJP is as anti-CPI(M) as the Trinamool Congress," he said.  Stating that the NDA was a pre-poll alliance now as in 2004, he dubbed the UPA as "opportunist".       

"The UPA was a post-poll alliance and had no pre-poll manifesto or common ideology. The only aim of the parties to come together was the fear of BJP and to keep it out of power," he said.