DOUBT IF CONG WILL WIN EVEN 40 LS SEATS: MAMATA

Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee today launched a scathing attack on the Congress, and publicly said that she has her doubts if the party will win "even 40 seats" in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

- SUPROTIM MUKHERJEE

The attack came on the day when Congress scion Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra ended its Bengal leg and crossed over to Jharkhand.

The attack on the grand old party came despite the Congress central leadership treating Mamata Banerjee with kid gloves even though the State administration had been constantly putting up obstacles in the way of Rahul Gandhi's Yatra.

Even on the last day of the yatra, the State police refused to grant permission to Rahul Gandhi's yatra to traverse Birbhum district on the way to the Bengal-Jharkhand border.

"Senior police officers forbade Rahul Gandhi from even waving at supporters," a senior Pradesh Congress leader told The Daily Guardian.

Mamata Banerjee launched her attack on her I.N.D.I. alliance partner, the Congress, from the stage from where she started a 48hour dharna on Friday to demand the State's "dues" from the Centre for various social welfare schemes.