At the same time, Banerjee reiterated her party's continued support to the ruling coalition at the centre and claimed hers was a ``pro-people party having no vested interests to derive any benefit from this Government''.

The Jayalalitha-Sonia talks were `the game plan' to embarrass the Vajpayee Government. ``I don't think that such a plan was mooted at the tea party hosted by Subramanian Swamy, but somewhere else'', she added.

She sought to remind Jayalalitha that ``AIADMK members were in the Vajpayee Cabinet due to our support'' to the Government as she drew a line between the line of criticism of her brand and Jaya's. The Trinamool Congress, she asserted, took a stand, sometimes unpopular, in the interests ofthe people, as seen in moves like her resignation from the coordination committee on price rise issue, support to Congress candidate P M Sayeed for deputy speaker's Post and the TRAI episode relating to telecom tariffs. ``At this juncture, our task is to strengthen hands of the Prime Minister'', the Trinamool Congress leader said, asserting ``We can't change our stand on support to this government and we are firm in our decision in this regard and we are not going to change it''.

Asked if her relations with the AIADMK supremo Jayalalitha would be strained in view of recent political turbulence, Banerjee said ``political relations and personal ties are two different issues''.

To a question, Banerjee said she was convinced that the Vajpayee Government had done the `right thing' in dismissing Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat. She echoed the PM's words she said, ``Unless there is a debate on the issue, people won't come to know the facts and the issue will remain confined to the JPC members only''. A discussion is themost practical way of dealing with the charges related to sacking, she said, shoving it into a JPC probe will hide the truth from the public.