WB: Pranab logic made Congress accept Mamata’s offer

Even as protesting Congress workers burnt effigies of the high command at various places informed sources in the Bengal PCC said Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee played a vital role in getting his deal with the Congress sewed up. Sources privy to developments over the last couple of days in Delhi said Congress president Sonia Gandhi who wanted the jot with the Trinamool to be “clinched and not imposed” was finally persuaded by Mukherjee into believing that the Congress had no other choice but to accept whatever Mamata Banerjee put on offer for the party.

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