Mamata wants UPA to complete its term
29 Aug 2012
Making it clear that her party did not wish to destabilise the United Progressive Alliance government, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that she would like the government to complete its full term, even as she added that her party was ready to face a mid-term Lok Sabha poll.
"We want the UPA government to complete its full term and we will not like it to collapse," the West Bengal chief minister told reporters at Writers' Building in Kolkata when asked to comment on the possibility of a mid-term poll.
She said, however, that if the situation so arose, "It is a big question. We have to see the political circumstances."
Banerjee's Trinamool is the second-biggest constituent of the UPA after the Congress, and its support is vital for the government to survive.
"If there is an election tomorrow, we have to discuss it in our party and in the concerned forum because this decision is not mine alone. But our party is ready. Anytime we can go for elections. We are ready to serve the people," she said.
Relations remain uneasy
Meanwhile the relations between the Congress and the Trinamool showed no real signs of easing up, as a senior Trinamool Congress leader accused the Congress in West Bengal of acting as a ''sub-committee the CPI(M)''.
