Kolkata, March 11 -- Marked by a perfect event management, that included a first-of-its kind announcement of party nominees for the Lok Sabha elections from a public rally, and making them walk on a rock-concert-type ramp in the midst of a reported 8-lakh-strong crowd Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Sunday made it loudly clear to a "still-in-the-waiting" Congress Party that she would not ally with them at the hustings.

Having announced TMC candidates from all the 42 seats Banerjee tended to walk her talk that she would "not ally with the Congress in Bengal despite my support for the INDIA alliance elsewhere."

At the end of a BJP-bashing rally christened Jana Garjan Sabha (Public Outcry Meet) Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerj...