Left, Congress Shut In On Bengal Seat Pact As PM Goals “Fit-Solving”
CPM and Congress are contesting the West Bengal meeting elections in an alliance.
Kolkata:
The Left and the Congress have determined how they are going to carve up 230 of 294 seats for West Bengal’s meeting elections due in April-Might and set themselves a time limit for dividing the remainder 64 seats via the 15th of February.
The target: to iron out all creases within the alliance by the point Congress chief Rahul Gandhi involves Kolkata on February 28 to deal with a joint rally via the 2 allies on the brigade parade flooring.
The time limit got here on an afternoon the High Minister attacked each the Left and the Congress of “match-fixing” with Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress.
“They’re assembly secretly and planning. Even in Kerala, they’ve determined the Left will rule for 5 years and the Congress will rule for the following 5 years. You will have to no longer be a part of this bluff,” PM Modi mentioned.
The Left has hit again attacking the High Minister for unfastened communicate. “If any individual is doing match-fixing, it’s the BJP and Trinamool,” mentioned Sujan Chakraborty, CPM MLA. “The High Minister has been urged BJP won’t win in Bengal and so he’s making excuses.”
In the meantime, at the seat-sharing entrance, no numbers have been printed on the finish of a just about three-hour assembly in Kolkata lately at CPM headquarters at Alimuddin Side road. An previous seat-sharing components for 193 of the state’s 294 seats was once scrapped.
As an alternative of juggling numbers, it was once determined to head via every seat in my view earlier than dishing out it to both the Left or the Congress, resources mentioned.
The allies additionally mentioned an be offering via the brand new political entrance in Bengal – the Indian secular Entrance or ISF – to struggle the polls collectively.
ISF leader patron, a well-liked preacher of Furfura Sharif, Pirzada Abbas Siddiqui wrote to Biman Bose of CPM just lately and Mr Bose has answered definitely to his be offering.
However Congress chief Adhir Chaudhury didn’t wish to devote any seats simply but as Abbas Siddiqui had no longer written to him.
Congress chief Abdul Mannan just lately wrote to Sonia Gandhi suggesting a tie-up between Congress and ISF.
In the meantime, at Vidhan Bhavan, the Congress headquarters in Kolkata, the party’s in-charge for Bengal Jitendra Prasada, held conferences with other party cells underscoring the wish to accelerate alliance talks on no longer simply seat-sharing but in addition a marketing campaign plan.
Mr Prasada is reported to have mentioned that the Congress management was once interested in an early answer of all problems in order that a joint marketing campaign may start in Bengal in proper earnest.
