Kolkata: Trinamool Congress chief Mamta Banerjee on February 20 said that her party has no alternative but to remain in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to fight Marxist "misrule" in West Bengal as the Congress which "hobnobbed" with Communist Party of India – Marxist (CPM) at the national level has lost credibility.

"We have no other alternative left to us as we cannot have any truck with Congress which is hand-in-glove with CPM at the national level for which I left my parent party," she told reporters in Kolkata after arriving from Delhi.

Banerjee, who attended the NDA meeting on February 16 for the first time in the last eight months, said her party had never withdrawn support from the NDA on the Eastern Railway bifurcation decision.

At the last TC working committee meeting on August 13 last year, it was decided that unless the bifurcation decision was reversed the party would not be part and parcel of NDA.

"But we have never pulled out of the ruling alliance over the issue," she clarified.

She said notwithstanding her party still opposing the railway bifurcation, TC would stand by the NDA in times of crisis as it did earlier.

"We never accepted the railway bifurcation. We still don't accept it. But we were with the NDA. We are with it and will remain so in future too," Banerjee said.

Her relations with NDA had soured following the Union Cabinet's summary rejection of her demand for a review of the Eastern Railway zone bifurcation.

PTI