By IANS,
New Delhi : A “Mamata cyclone” was blowing through West Bengal and the Congress should hand her the entire responsibility of the assembly elections next year, a triumphant Trinamool Congress MP said here Wednesday.
“A Mamata cyclone is blowing in Bengal. People have responded to her,” Sudip Bandyopadhyay told IANS as the party won the Kolkata Municipal Corporation and swept much of the state in the civic polls.
Bandyopadhyay, who is Trinamool MP from Kolkata Uttar, said people had kept their confidence in Banerjee.
Stressing that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) should continue, Bandyopadhyay also said about the poor performance of the Congress. “It is good everybody has come to realise where they stand.
“Let the Congress give the whole responsibility to Mamata Banerjee, including decisions on seats,” he said.
He demanded that the Left Front government in West Bengal resign in the wake of the results of the civic elections.
“It is better that the Left Front government tenders its resignation and seeks early assembly polls as the people are not with it. The government has totally lost the faith of the people,” he said.
According to the MP, the ruling coalition led by the Communist-Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) had been defeated in Lok Sabha election, by-elections and the civic polls and should step down without waiting for 2011 when assembly elections are due in the state.
The results have come as a big boost to the Trinamool, which defied exit poll predictions of a close contest and improved its bargaining power vis-a-vis the Congress which performed dismally. The two parties had failed to come to an electoral understanding and gone it alone.