Kolkata: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, whose party in alliance with the Congress breached the Leftist bastion in West Bengal in the Lok Sabha elections, on Saturday parried the question of her party joining a Congress-led government at the Centre.
"Let the government be formed first. The counting process is still on. Our role will be constructive. We want a stable and secular government which will ensure progress in the country," she said.
Asked whether the result was a thumbs down against the Buddhadeb government's industrialisation policy, she said, "By industrialisation, CPM means state-sponsored terrorism, not industry. We want both agriculture and industry to co-exist in the state."
"Land grabbing in the name of industrialisation should not be pardoned," she said, adding that a wind of change was blowing in the state.
"People have voted for a change. If there was no rigging in the first phase, we would have won all the 42 seats," she claimed.
She said the Left Front government had been reduced to a minority and the result was a no confidence against it, when asked whether her party would seek dismissal of the state government.