After waiting for more ten days for a response, Trinamool Congress today served an ultimatum to Congress to convey within "a day or two" its decision on seat-sharing for Lok Sabha poll in West Bengal or else it would go it alone.Seeking to counter Trinamool's pressure, Congress too said time was running out for firming up the seat-sharing accord and asked Mamata Banerjee-led party to review some of the "difficult-to-win" seats offered."The seat-sharing deal of 28 seats to be contested by Trinamool Congress and 14 by Congress was clinched on March one at a meeting in which WBPCC president Pranab Mukherjee and AICC in-charge of the state, K Keshava Rao were present," Banerjee told reporters in Kolkata."We have been waiting for ten days and we cannot wait forever. There is a limit. If Congress is sincerely interested in alliance to defeat the CPI(M), they must inform us within a day or two." Maintaining that her party was for the alliance in the interest of the people, she said, "we are ready for any situation. If there is an alliance it is okay otherwise we will fight on our own...We will not agree to let CPI(M) have the free run of West Bengal anymore."
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