Union finance minister and Congress master strategist Pranab Mukherjee met party president Sonia Gandhi here on Monday evening to brief her on the ongoing seat-sharing negotiations with Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamul Congress for the West Bengal Assembly elections.

Railway minister and Trinamul Congress president Mamata Banerjee appears to have landed in major trouble over an advertisement in which she is shown modelling for a particular brand of rubber slippers (hawai chappals).