She also defended her decision to break her previous alliances with the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance.
"I join any coalition with certain commitments that I made to the people who elect me. While other parties do not bother to honour the commitments they made in the manifesto, I cannot do that, I can't cheat people," she said, admitting she was "alone but her voice was for millions".
Asserting that Maoists were different from "blood thirsty" ones, Banerjee suggested adopting the Junglemahal model of development that she undertook to tackle with left-wing extremism in Bengal.
