Kolkata: Upbeat over her party's good showing in the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said she wanted to devote more time to the state assembly elections even as she was yet to take a decision on her joining the UPA cabinet.
"I cannot cast aside the people of West Bengal, specially when atrocities are going on after the Lok Sabha elections here...My party will be there (in the government). If I can find time to devote to the state, then I can take a decision about myself," she told reporters here.
Mamata wanted the assembly elections due in West Bengal in 2011 to be preponed.
"The sooner the Left Front goes, the better it will be for West Bengal. Nothing is moving in the state. Everything is at a standstill," the Trinamool chief said.
"I want the new UPA government to complete its full five-year term and take care of agriculture, industry, people's security and create employment opportunities," she said.