Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee's attempt to form an opposition alliance against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal has been rejected by the Congress and Left parties.
CPI(M) state secretary Md Salim said that his party will not accept anyone identified as criminal, extortionist, corrupt and communal, and will stand by the people and the marginal population.
State Congress spokesperson Soumya Aich Roy questioned Banerjee's statement, asking what she meant by 'ultra-Left' and whether it referred to the Maoists who killed 18 Congress leaders and workers in Chhattisgarh in 2013.
Reacting to her statement, CM Suvendu Adhikari said that Banerjee is 'irrelevant in politics.'
The BJP won 207 of 294 seats in the recent polls, while the TMC secured 80 seats.
