TMC dismisses that it reached understanding with BJP

CPI(M) leader Mohammad Selim had alleged that TMC had reached an understanding with the BJP govt at the Centre in the Upper House where the NDA did not have majority

The Trinamool Congress today dismissed that it has reached an understanding with the BJP in Rajya Sabha where the NDA does not have majority. "There is no basis in it," all India TMC General Secretary Mukul Roy told PTI, referring to CPI(M) leader Mohammad Selim's remark.

The CPI(M) Lok Sabha MP and Central Committee member while reacting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's praise for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday, had told a local TV channel that it was aimed at enlisting TMC's support in the Rajya Sabha.

He also alleged that TMC has reached an understanding with the BJP government at the Centre in the Upper House where the NDA did not enjoy majority. "It's a baseless allegation. I do not like to reply to what he has said. They have been rejected by the people in the elections. They have become irrelevant as a political force," Roy, who is the chairman of TMC Parliamentary Party, said.

"Centre and state relationship is a different matter while political opposition is another. We will go by our own policies. We are neither with the BJP-led NDA nor with the Congress. This was our stand in the last Parliament also," Roy whose party has 34 Lok Sabha MPs and 12 Rajya Sabha members said.

"We will play the role of the constructive Opposition. We will support decisions if we find them to be in people's interest and oppose those against their interests" Roy said.