Congress’s Mani Shankar Aiyar, known for his controversial statements on multiple issues, this time advised his party’s senior leader Rahul Gandhi to leave INDIA Bloc’s driving seat to leaders of the regional parties. Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, he said, was leader of the bloc, without whom “the ‘I’, ‘N’, ‘D’, ‘I’, ‘A’ of the INDIA alliance will be gone”. “Mamata Banerjee is the leader of this alliance. Along with her, there are two or four others who can achieve this position,” he told reporters in Kolkata this afternoon, sparkling a political row ahead of the assembly polls in Bengal.
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