DHAKA: A day after BJP president Rajnath Singh held out the olive branch to her, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee ruled out any alliance with the right wing party.

‘Some parties want to incite riots in Bengal and divide people, based on religion and language. People of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar who live in Bengal are as much part of the state as any Bengali-speaking person.

‘We do not play politics of division. We care for people irrespective of their religion, caste or creed. We will never, ever have an alliance with the BJP,’ Mamata said on Saturday while addressing a Lok Sabha election rally at Shyambazar in north Kolkata, reports NDTV.

Speaking at a rally in Sreerampore in Hooghly district on Sunday, Narendra Modi had alleged that Mamata had no love for people from other states who have settled in Bengal, but ‘your face glows when people come from Bangladesh’.

Repeating her charge that the Congress, the BJP and the CPI-M have formed a nexus in Bengal to fight the Trinamool, Mamata accused the opposition of carrying out a malicious propaganda during the election campaign.

She attacked a section of the media as well.

‘Some media houses think they can control the government. We are the government of the people. People will control us. We cannot run the government and fix our political agenda based on the wishes of media houses.’

‘Let the media houses pursuing political agenda fight elections and form a government,’ she said.

BDST: 1418 HRS, MAY 04, 2014