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Bengal Congress approaches Sonia seeking seat-sharing with Left

  •   Thu, Dec 31 2015 09:05:47 PM

Kolkata, Dec 31, 2015, (IANS) : The West Bengal unit of the Congress has written to party chief Sonia Gandhi seeking seat adjustment with the CPI-M led Left Front to dethrone the Trinamool Congress government led by Mamata Banerjee.

"A Congress-Left Front seat adjustment with a declared common minimum programme would dethrone the TMC government and usher in a Congress-Left Front alliance in West Bengal," state Congress general Secretary O.P. Mishra said in the letter giving vote and seat projections for the 2016 assembly polls.

"Given the rapid deterioration of support for the BJP in the state, it is expected that a high percentage of BJP vote would travel back to the Left and Congress combine.

"The assembly segment-wise vote projection assumes transfer of 40 percent of the total vote received by the BJP in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, in favour of Congress-Left nominees," he said.

Mishra said that if free and fair polls are conducted, then the Trinamool, which enjoys an overwhelming advantage in South Bengal because of its "terror tactics, can lose its stronghold.

The move comes amidst speculations of a coalition between the Congress and the Communist Party of India-Marxist led Left Front.

While there have been feelers from the camps, the CPI-M which concluded its five-day organisational plenum in the city on Thursday hinted at the possibility but remained evasive on the issue.
  

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  • MICHAEL NORONHA, MYSURU

    Fri, Jan 01 2016

    Mrs Sonia Gandhi should take a speedy decision and work out a COMMON MINIMUM PROGRAMME and seat adjustment. The congress should not work as a second fiddle to the left and Mamatha Congress but be assertive. Congress being reduced to 44 seats in the Lok Sabha was the anti congress attitude of Ms Mamata Banerjee and her total negligence of the Railway Ministry when she was the central railway minister with increased accidents, no improvement in railways etc. etc. Her focus was on West Bengal elections and she made her Railway Ministry office at West Bengal till the State elections. CMP should also include participation in the Ministry with important ministerial posts to be handled by the Congress for the benefit of the people of West Bengal.Mrs Sonia should take the local leadership into confidence rather than depending upon the central leaders of the party who have vested interests in their decision making process.The main focus should be to gauge the mood of the people and work towards the welfare of bengalis. Hope blunders like Chattisgarh will be avoided in future.

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  • SB, Mlore

    Fri, Jan 01 2016

    So Congress.lost how of fighting alone on Ben gallery also!

    May I please know which state scamgress will face BJP on its own and win more seats than BJP..may it be Delhi or bihar!

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  • Praveen, Udupi

    Thu, Dec 31 2015

    Bjp mukth bharat is the need of the hour. We have to achieve this by any means. We have to put an end to fekuraj and bring back good governance.

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