Cobbling alliance to pip BJP won't work, but credibility:

Amid calls for opposition unity to halt BJP's juggernaut, a senior TMC leader today said cobbling "some package" just to defeat the saffron party was not going to work, but the credibility, which he stated, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has.
TMC leader Dinesh Trivedi praised Modi for also being energetic and he said that fact that people were convinced about the prime minister's leadership and that the youngsters were supporting him needs to be faced.
The former Union minister also hailed his party chief Mamata Banerjee for having "personal credibility" and "single-handedly" dislodging Left Front from power in West Bengal.

Stating even one week is considered as "too long" a period in politics, Trivedi, however, said (the possibility of a grand alliance in) the future was "still open".
"In order to defeat somebody, you cobble some package together, not having the kind of ideology which you have, then I don't think this is going to work.
"What is going to work today, is the credibility," Trivedi said during a panel discussion organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) here.

Trivedi's remarks come against the backdrop of Nitish Kumar-led JD(U) and the Left parties calling for "unity" among "secular democratic" parties, particularly post BJP's emphatic victory in politically crucial Uttar Pradesh.

Banerjee, too, in a recent interview to a news channel had suggested that political scenario at the national stage will change soon, if opposition parties like the SP and the BSP forget their differences and unite against the BJP.
He further added "And at the moment...The big trump card for the Prime Minister is, he has the credibility, he has the energy. And people are convinced, the youth is with him. Let's face the fact."
Trivedi though cautioned that with the opposition emaciated, the BJP has bigger responsibility as people will be expecting more from it.
Besides Trivedi, BJD leader Baijayant Panda and BJP's Meenakshi Lekhi took part in the panel discussion.