Kolkata: Throwing her weight firmly behind nephew Abhishek Banerjee at a time when several rebel leaders have blamed his alleged high-handedness for quitting the TMC, party supremo Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday apologised to the people "on behalf of the traitors" and asserted that neither she nor her family had ever compromised for political survival.
In one of her strongest public defences of Abhishek Banerjee since the split in the TMC, Mamata Banerjee said he had become an "excuse" for attacks on the party despite repeated summons issued to him and his family members and praised him for continuing the political battle instead of seeking "relief" through compromise.
