New Delhi: Mamata Banerjee has said she is "very happy" with the Railways portfolio assigned to her and will look at making cheap travel available to all. However, the Trinamool Congress chief says she will take charge with the rest of her party members.
"I am not alone. We are family members. We have worked together. The Cabinet is also a family," she says, adding: "Our party's performance was very good. I would have been happy if all the ministers were included, together. Today I have been included alone. I am not taking charge because our other members are yet to take their oaths. Then we will take charge together."
PTI adds: Earlier, Mamata Banerjee was given Railways in partial allocation of portfolios by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Singh, who had taken 19 ministers in his new Cabinet, had told reporters at the Rashtrapati Bhawan on Friday that portfolio distribution would take two-three days.
However, surprisingly the limited allocation of portfolios was announced by the Rashtrapati Bhawan on Saturday on the advice of the Prime Minister, who preferred to get down to business and distributed ministries on which there are apparently no differences.
In Kolkata, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee indicated that there could be six more ministerial berths for her party in the first expansion of the Manmohan Singh ministry which is likely on Tuesday.
"There may be six more representations from my party in the union government," which will be the largest representation from West Bengal, she said.