Mamata thanks everyone who supported her to lead INDIA bloc
The HinduWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday thanked several senior leaders of the INDIA bloc who endorsed her to lead the Opposition coalition. Her remarks came after veteran Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Lalu Prasad Yadav on Tuesday said that the leadership of INDIA bloc may be given to Mamata Banerjee. Several leaders of the Trinamool Congress in the past and recently party leader Kalyan Banerjee had said that the leadership of INDIA bloc should be handed over to the Trinamool Congress chairperson because the Congress party had failed in resisting the Bharatiya Janata Party. However, West Bengal State Congress president Subhankar Sarkar said that whenever the BJP faces a problem, the Trinamool gives oxygen to it as well as the Central government.