Moves on to woo Mamata back to Cong fold

The Congress president Sonia Gandhi has entrusted this special task to party leaders Pranab Mukherjee and Salman Khurshid to win over Mamta. Both have already sent feelers to the Trinamool camp with proposals for a possible patch-up.

They have even gone to the extent of informing Mamata Bannerjee that she will head the Congress if she agrees to stage a comeback. She has also been assured that quite a few of the present group of leaders in the Congress in West Bengal will be sidelined.

But then why this sudden development! In the past both the Trinamool Congress and the Congress have shamelessly criticised each other in West Bengal. Both the parties were at odds and enjoying a relation like snake and mongoose.

But at present, Sonia Gandhi feels that the rejuvenation of the Congress in West Bengal is a must and cannot be attained without Mamata.