Chacko, who hails from Kerala, said there was “lurking fear” in the mind of Congress workers as also Communists in his home state that the electoral arrangement between the two sides in West Bengal would affect them but it did not happen.
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An analysis of the results indicated that the party’s vote percentage also increased compared to 2011 Assembly poll and 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
Based on the numbers of the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, in which the Left and Congress together had a 39.6 per cent vote share – nearly the same as Trinamul’s – the alliance leaders had thundered before the polls that Mamata’s time in the hot seat was over. The leader of the Congress-Left combine Suryakanta Mishra did not make it either. In Darjeeling hills, Gorkha Janmukti Morcha won three seats. Moreover we did not have the organisational strength that the TMC had, ” Adhir Ranjan Choudhury, West Bengal Pradesh Congress President said. “I want to dedicate my life for the people but for now I am satisfied with the job I am doing and am willing to concentrate in the development of Bengal”. “Until and unless you have mass contact, how will you find out your lacunae”, CPI(M) leader Manash Mukherjee, who won from Kamarhati seat, said.
Accepting the people’s verdict of returning J Jayayalalithaa’s AIADMK to power in Tamil Nadu, the two Left parties alleged that money power played a crucial role in the southern states to ensure the victory for AIADMK.
The failure is compounded with the fact that the Congress could become the second largest party and thus claim the position of Leader of Opposition. “We can not join hands because of our ideologicaldifferences but there should not be any problem on backing its positive steps”.
Among the prominent winners from the Left were Asok Bhattacharya, Anisur Rehman, Tanmoy Bhattacharya.
Six Trinamool Ministers lost in the polls.
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“The campaign on corruption was false and the people defeated it”, she added. For people living in underdeveloped interior, these were major changes, never mind the Saradha chit fund scam or the Narada sting operations. She had in her rallies asked the voters “to vote for me considering that I am contesting from all the 294 seats”. “Those who don’t have any mass base have been the biggest proponents of Congress-CPI(M) alliance”, RSP state secretary Khsiti Goswami said.
