3:40 pm: Mamata: After elections, we are not going to support either Congress or BJP. We will not be part of any front.
3:39 pm: Mamata (on appointing Lokayukta): After Lokpal bill is implemented there is one year time, we will set up Lokayukta.
3:38 pm: Hazare: The Lokpal and Lokayukta Bill is yet to be implemented in the country. Under this bill, Lokayukta will have to be set up within 365 days.
3:36 pm: Mamata (to a Bengal reporter on Saradha Chitfund scam): Whatever chitfund scam happened was since Eighties because of Left front rule. it was our govt which exposed, and sent the accused to jail. Our government gave money to help the poor who were cheated in the scam. Even our MP is in jail for thsi scam.
3:35 pm: Mamata: How many seats we will contest. In Bengal we have 42 seats, there are 2 seats in Tripura. We will also contest in Assam, Manipur and other states. Annaji will tell me which are the honest candidates in other parts of India. He will advise me, and I will then see.
3:34 pm: (question-answer session) Hazare: Neither will I support Modi, nor will I support or oppose Arvind.
3:33 pm: Mamata: We had great sons of India, Gandhiji, Subhas Bose, Rajendra Prasad, Abul Kalam Azad. Annaji has questions in his mind. We will do more meetings with Annaji.
3:28 pm: Mamata: We saved Rs 1500 crore in power sector through efficiency and savings, despite hike in prices of railway freight and coal. The country needs change. I am grateful to Annaji for giving me his blessings. I have come to Delhi only for Annaji to touch his feet. I don't want anything for myself in Bengal. As a simple person, as a country citizen, I want to serve my country. I am not saying this for kursi . I am running my party at the lowest cost. Other parties spend thousands of crores only for publicity. I only do Facebook. Others are sponsoring PR agencies, I don't do for my party. The attitude towards governance must change. There must be transparency and accountability. The nation's money is not for sending abroad. It must stay within our country. We want to make India stronger, but not by selling our country.
3:27 pm: Mamata: They took away Rs 70,000 crore in last two and a half years from our state treasury, yet our GDP growth rate is double the Centre's GDP growth rate.
3:26 pm: Mamata: Now they are bulldozing democracy. For the last 65 years, the country is being run like a feudal landlord. They make promises before elections and then forget. How much income tax, sales tax, VAT tax, does one has to pay?
3:23: Mamata: the policy should be that the state should become strong. Central govt's jurisdiction should be clearly demarcated. Who will become PM will be decided after elections. The system is not pre-paid, it is post-paid. We want a stable government. If anybody loves the country, he should think about this, whether we come to power or not. But we must declare the policies beforehand. There are 50 crore shopkeepers. We do not want their families to become poor. That's why we left the govt over FDI. Sometime they say Aadhar card will remain, against they say Aadhar card will not remain.
3:21 pm: Mamata: We have already done 52 meetings at grassroots level with BDOs. No other state has done it. State must have power. Is the work of the Centre only to collect taxes? If anybody opposes, throwing the CBI against them, whether reporters, or media houses, should they be threatened? The actual work is done by states. If states become strong, the Centre will become strong. Like AP CM had to resign, this is not good.
3:19 pm: Mamata speaks now. Mamata: I am grateful for being invited to Annaji's press conference. I heard his entire statement. We had a meeting yesterday. Out of these 17 points, 2-3 points we will iron out, but the rest of the points we are already working on them. Like Land Acquisition Policy, employment-oriented industrialisation. ON rest of the issues like black money, corruption, giving village the priority, or electoral reforms (we want state funding). we want judicial and administrative reforms. You will appreciate we have already started our administrative calendar on some of these points.
