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Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday dismissed as rumours her reported plans to rejoin the National Democratic Alliance, but said her future course of action would be decided by the party.
"It is for my party to take a decision," she told reporters in Delhi when asked repeatedly about Trinamul's future association with the NDA.
"The purpose of my visit to the capital is to meet constitutional heads to apprise them of the murder of democracy in West Bengal in the assembly elections," she said.
When Mamata's attention was drawn to the statement of her party leader Ajit Panja that Trinamul is still with the NDA, she said: "I don't comment on individual remarks."
Asked if she would meet Sonia Gandhi, she said: "I will meet the leader of the opposition tomorrow. I will also meet Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Union Home Minister Lal Kishenchand Advani."
The Trinamul chief, accompanied by senior Congress leader Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi, called on President K R Narayanan in the evening and submitted an 18-page memorandum alleging that the West Bengal assembly elections were " rigged" by the ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) in collusion with the Election Commission.
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