The Trinamool Congress today announced candidates for all 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal in a snub to Congress which had just days earlier said that seat-sharing talks for the upcoming elections are still on. The Congress and Trinamool are part of the INDIA bloc - an alliance of opposition parties that had come together to challenge the BJP in the upcoming elections. But the snub today is a clear indication that the Mamata Banerjee-led party does not wish to be associated with the Congress, at least in Bengal. The Congress hit back soon after Trinamool paraded all its candidates led by Mamata Banerjee on an elevated ramp at the packed Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata.
