India, Oct. 4 -- Mamata Banerjee proposes expanding alliance as parties prepare to challenge BJP-led NDA.

With the INDIA bloc meeting held on September 30 and all parties deciding to take on Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over the special intensive revision of the voter rolls, sources indicated that Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has also offered to bring more parties into the opposition bloc to make it stronger to take on the BJP-led NDA. Banerjee had indicated that the INDIA bloc could accommodate more Opposition parties, including the DMK, and that the question of who should lead the alliance would be decided collectively.

Sources said that during the meeting of the INDIA bloc at Constitution Club here, the Trina...