Mamata against government of rioters, dynastic rule

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Press Trust of India Kolkata
Last Updated : Jan 30 2014 | 5:41 PM IST
Kickstarting her party's Lok Sabha campaign, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee today said her party would go it alone in the 2014 polls and renewed her call for a federal front of non-Congress and non-BJP parties.
Addressing a well-attended rally here, Banerjee, who had shared power earlier with the BJP-led NDA and Congress-led UPA at the Centre, attacked both, saying, "We do we want dynastic rule, nor do we want a government of rioters at the Centre. We want a people's government".
Banerjee, who was asked by the CPI-M earlier to come clean on the party's stand vis a vis a Narendra-Modi headed government after the LS election, made it clear that there will not be any alliance with the BJP.
Ruling out any truck with the BJP, Congress and the Marxists in the coming election, she said, "We want a federal front of regional parties as an alternative in order to strengthen and safeguard the interests of the states. If such a front is in a position to form the next government, we will give our support."
Banerjee said her party would try hard to stitch together a federal front of regional parties to form a government after the next polls.
She also expressed her willingness to give outside support to such a government, saying, "If needed, we will give support. We do not have have any lust for power and chair."
Confident of playing a crucial role at the Centre post-election, she claimed that her party was the only alternative to Congress and BJP in the country.
Coming down hard at the UPA governent for price rise, corruption and "non-cooperation" in giving funds to West Bengal, she called for "durniti hatao, desh bachao" (Remove corruption, save country).
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First Published: Jan 30 2014 | 5:41 PM IST

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