Six more from TMC likely to be inducted in UPA govt: Mamata

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, who was sworn in as Cabinet minister, has indicated that there could six more ministerial berths for her party in the first expansion of the Manmohan Singh ministry which is likely on Tuesday.

"There may be six more representations from my party in the union government," which will be the largest representation from West Bengal, she said.

Mamata, 54, who is widely tipped to get the Railways portfolio, said though her party could have demanded more ministerial berths since it was the largest party after the Congress in the UPA it did not do so.

"As per ratio of MPs, we could have got more ministerial berths compared to other partners in the UPA," Mamata told a Bengali news channel.

"We did not bargain over ministerial berths. We are taking ministerial responsibilities to serve the people. Ministry is not a matter to us. We have no intention to go to the government to make money," she said.

Turning to West Bengal, Mamata dubbed the Left Front government as 'non working' and said she did not expect any cooperation from it.  "The sooner this government goes the better," she said.

"We are monitoring everything and we will demand an account of each and every official file," she said.

Stating that the Trinamool Congress wanted to serve the interest of the people of the state and would monitor proper utilisation of central funds, she said, "Pranabda (Pranab Mukherjee) will be with us to help us in this matter."