West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met Congress president Rahul Gandhi and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi on Tuesday.

The meeting came as the Trinamool Congress chief continues to lead the initiative of stitching together all opposition parties to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Following the meeting at Sonia Gandhi’s residence, Banerjee said she discussed the possibility of coming together as a grand alliance for next year’s elections to dislodge the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

“We discussed current politics and the possibility of all of us contesting elections together in future. We also discussed the NRC Assam issue,” she was quoted by ANI as saying.

Banerjee personally invited Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and other opposition leaders for the January 19 mega rally she has planned in Kolkata through which she is aiming to send across a political message to the BJP and the country.

“There will be collective face. Ours is a collective family. Priority is to defeat BJP. If, to defeat BJP, we can fight collectively inside Parliament then why can we not outside? I haven’t come to talk about my state,” Banerjee said.

“Whenever I come to Delhi I meet Sonia-ji as I have very old relation with Rajiv-ji (Rajiv Gandhi). We have discussed political matters also. How we can fight together,” she said, indicating that Congress would be part of anti-BJP front.

“I don’t want to interfere in Congress matter or what Congress will decide… Wherever, whoever is strong should fight,” she said in reply to a question whether TMC will ally with Congress in West Bengal.

The meeting with the Gandhis came after Banerjee’s meetings with leaders of several other parties in Parliament House. Earlier today, the TMC supremo met leaders of various parties including Shiv Sena, AIADMK, Samajwadi Party, TDP, YSCRP, DMK, RJD, Kerala Congress-Mani.

She also called on JD-S leader and former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda in Karnataka Bhavan and senior BJP leader LK Advani in his chamber in Parliament.

When asked to comment on speculations that she would be the face of the alliance, Banerjee brushed it aside saying that her priority is to defeat BJP in the Lok Sabha elections next year.

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She also kept up her attack on the BJP over the exclusion of 40 lakh names from the National Register of Citizens for Assam, saying they were playing with fire and were using offensive language against those excluded.

When asked about her ‘civil war’ remark she made on Tuesday, the West Bengal Chief Minister told ANI, “I am not BJP’s servant to reply to any of their statements. I didn’t say this (civil war remark), my concern is regarding the 40 lakh people whose names are not in the list (NRC).”

(With inputs from agencies.)