Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday lashed out at West Bengal's ruling Left Front for its "poor governance" and the lack of employment and appealed to people to "give a chance" to the Congress-Trinamool Congress alliance.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday had a word of praise for Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee even as she questioned the use of central funds by the state's Left Front government.

In a warning to rebel Congress leaders, Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said none will be let off, whosoever he may be, for going against the party line.

"Whoever he may be, he may

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today exuded confidence that the coming election would "create history ending the 35-year-old Left Front government's misrule" as the Marxists would not be a

Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's son Avijit, who has filed his papers as a Congress nominee for the West Bengal assembly polls, owns assets worth over Rs. 5 crore jointly with his wife.

In a

Suspected Maoists torched a CPI(M) party office and bombed a building housing a self-help group in West Midnapore district, police said today.