India, May 25 -- Former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said members of the INDIA bloc were likely to meet in the first week of June to discuss a joint strategy, while asserting that the opposition camp was prepared for a prolonged political battle.

"We are ready to fight, and we will not give up till the end," Banerjee said in a Facebook Live address.

Using the platform to launch a fresh attack on the BJP, the TMC supremo alleged large-scale electoral manipulation and claimed the Trinamool Congress's popular mandate had been overturned in around 150 assembly constituencies.

"Winning seats were turned into losing seats and losing ones into winning seats," she alleged while claiming that otherwise the TMC would have...