Trinamool to consider joining centre

The extended working committee meeting of the Trinamool Congress on February 21 would discuss the issue, she said.

Banerjee said that she would wait for the Railway Budget before considering the issue of joining the Union Cabinet.

The Prime Minister8217;s special emissary Pramod Mahajan, who had announced acceptance of the demands mentioned in the package, said that sufficient funds would be allocated for the pending railway projects in the Rail Budget.

Trinamool Congress8217; decision to discuss the issue of participation in the Governmentassumed significance as Banerjee had last month categorically ruled out the possibility. She said this following BJP president Kushabhau Thakre8217;s statement that the railways portfolio could not be given to Trinamool Congress, antagonising another ally the Samata Party.