Trinamool wants CPI-M out of Bengal: party MP

After riding the victory wave in West Bengal during General Elections, the Trinamool Congress is now gaining in the portfolio allocation race, too, in the Capital.

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, accompanied by senior party leaders Dinesh Trivedi and Mukul Roy, met Congress leader AK Antony and Ahmed Patel on Thursday.

Talking to the media, Trivedi made it clear that his party is not indulging in any kind of bargaining and says that the party just wants the CPI-M out of West Bengal.

Here is the transcript of the interview -

CNN-IBN: Have you decided not to bargain hard for portfolios?

Dinesh Trivedi: I mean there is no question of deciding. In Mamata Banerjee's temperament we don't believe in this kind of thing. We want stability of the government because that is what people want,and that is the proirity. We want dignity to the Parliament and we want the atrocities which have been unleashed in West Bengal by the CPM-led Left Front government to end because that is what people want.

CNN-IBN: Tell me are you not bargaining hard because you want to concentrate on Bengal and you want the government to preponed the Assembly elections in the state?

Dinesh Trivedi: There is no doubt that it is the top most priority.

CNN-IBN: Are you going to put pressure on the government to prepone the elections in the state?

Dinesh Trivedi: This kind of bargaining and all is all in the media. In reality everything is going on smoothly, there is no question of bargain. I have given my first priority to them and it is the stability of the government which we are definite to get because that is how to work for the common man.

CNN-IBN: Is preponing the elections your top most priority?

Dinesh Trivedi: The top most agenda is to finish the terror in West Bengal.

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