By IANS,
Kolkata: The Congress’ West Bengal unit Sunday officially extended its full support to the Trinamool Congress, which is scheduled to form the next government within a few days.
Thanking the Congress for its support, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee, who is set to become the state’s first woman chief minister, said she will invite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi to her swearing-in ceremony.
Talking to reporters after the first meeting of the newly-elected Congress legislators, state Congress spokesman Omprakash Mishra said: “Today we have given an official letter from West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee to Trinamool Congress stating our full support to the new government which will be formed by Trinamool Congress. We have vowed our full support to the new government.”
“A Congress delegation led by state Congress president Manas Bhunia will meet the governor and extend their official support to the yet to be formed Trinamool government,” he said.
The Trinamool-Congress alliance registered a landslide victory over the 34-year-old Left Front government in the state, bagging 227 seats in the 294-member state assembly.
Banerjee also congratulated the state Congress for putting up a good show in the elections.
“I congratulate the Congress for their good results and thank them as they have extended their support to our new government,” she said.
“I will be leaving for Delhi today. I will invite honorable prime minister and Soniaji to the oath taking ceremony. Because remember this oath taking ceremony is a big thing after defeating the CPI-M (Communist Party of India-Marxist),” she added.