On the WBPCC's earlier contention wanting the high command to give it permission to walk out of the state government, he said, "We have said that earlier. But now the situation has changed much.
"In a democracy there can be different opinions. We want to work in a good way. At the same time we also appeal to the TMC and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to support Pranab Mukherjee in the presidential election," he said.
Congress leader Shakeel Ahmad had on Wednesday said that Mamata Banerjee had not crossed any limit by suggesting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's name for the President's post and wanted the Trinamool Congress supremo to remain a valued ally.
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