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Mamata Banerjee (File photo) NEW DELHI: A day after West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee expressed her willingness to lead the INDIA bloc if asked to do so, Congress' silence was conspicuous as its top brass chose to steer clear of making any official statement on her remarks. However, party sources said Congress veterans see no reason to respond to what they see as "mere posturing" by Banerjee to project herself as a national leader amid challenges faced by her within her own party, the All India Trinamool Congress, on her home turf.Her remarks were seen as her way of sending out a message to her own party and impressing upon them that she wields influence beyond Bengal. The political grapevine is abuzz that there are differences brewing between the CM and her nephew and MP Abhishek Banerjee.Al...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed her dissatisfaction with the current functioning of the opposition INDIA bloc, suggesting her readiness to assume leadership of the alliance if the opportunity arises. Speaking in an interview with Bengali news channel News 18 Bangla on Friday, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo made it clear that she could manage both the opposition front and her role as Chief Minister of West Bengal simultaneously. "I had formed the INDIA bloc, now it is up to those leading the front to manage it. If they can't run the show, what can I do? I would just say that everyone needs to be taken along," she remarked, as quoted by news agency PTI. Banerjee further addressed the question of why she had not yet assumed leadership of the alliance, especially g...

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