New Delhi, Feb. 23 -- Senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar has suggested that West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee should lead the opposition INDIA bloc, saying that without her, the "alliance will be gone".

"Mamata Banerjee is the leader of this alliance. Along with her, there are two or four others who can achieve this position," Aiyar was quoted as saying by NDTV in what might come across as a message to Rahul Gandhi, the Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha.

These remarks came days after Aiyar, a veteran Congress leader, said last week that he was not a "Rahulian" because the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha is much younger than him and is distant in his political life.

"I hope that instead of trying to remain in this ...