"Besides the 35 seats in Bengal, any other seat that we win elsewhere would add to our tally," he said. Banerjee has said during a rally in West Bengal on Monday that her party would "control" the new government at the centre.
At the party office in Delhi's South Avenue, huge bags full of thousands of caps, banners and buntings with the party logo are handed out to cadres and candidates fighting the April 7-May 12 Lok Sabha elections.
On what plank is the Trinamool appealing to voters outside West Bengal?
"We tell people about the way Didi has worked to change things in Bengal, where fear was rampant during the CPI-M rule. Now people in rural areas move around without fear, the police are accountable.