Kolkata, May 10 -- Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee on Sunday found herself rejected as a potential ally against the state's first Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government by all other opposition parties, including the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Congress.

"Absolutely not. We will not accept anyone identified as criminal, extortionist, corrupt and communal. We will stand by the people and the marginal population," CPI(M) state secretary Md Salim said in reply to the proposal Banerjee made on Saturday although his party is not in power in any Indian state for the first time in 49 years, having lost the Kerala polls.

On Saturday, when BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari was sworn in as chief minister and five other MLA...