Kolkata: Trinamool Congress chief Mamta Banerjee on July 29 night described as "shocking" the Union Cabinet's decision rejecting her party's demand for reconsideration of the Eastern Railway bifurcation.

"Union Cabinet's decision is shocking. It is a gross injustice to West Bengal. I had confidence in the Prime Minister, but we know that some people have played a dirty game. It is a reward to Nitish Kumar," Banerjee told reporters immediately after receiving the news from Delhi.

She, however, declined to say anything on whether TC would continue to be in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and said that the working committee of the party scheduled to meet on July 31 would chalk out the future course of action on this issue.

The firebrand TC leader, who was closeted with some close aides as the news about Cabinet decision came, said that it was a "black day" for Bengal and vowed to fight it out politically.

Sounding a warning to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), she said that the saffron party had to keep in mind that it was not a government of the BJP and Samata Party.

Without naming the BJP she alleged that politically the party wanted to survive in Bihar. "They are counting MPs in that state. We have also nine MPs, but there is no Cabinet minister from the state."

PTI