“Even the state Congress chief (Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury) publicly said his party was holding discussions only with the CPI-M, and there was no need for deliberations with other LF partners”.
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Once invincible CPI (M) led Left Front, which had kept aside its “ideological convictions” to align with its one time foe Congress to oust the Trinamool Congress regime in Bengal, is the “biggest loser” in the polls as its tally dropped from 62 seats in 2011 to just 32 seats in the recently ended Assembly elections.
BJP MARCH FOILED: Meanwhile, senior BJP leaders, accompanied by over a hundred party workers, today unsuccessfully tried to march towards Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s residence to protest against the attack on party leader Rupa Ganguly allegedly by TMC workers.
Party State Secretary Surjya Kanta Mishra didn’t blame the alliance. Bengal is a corruption-free state. Congress-Left combine has taken 76 seats while BJP has bagged three seats.
BJP BAGS ASSAM, CONGRESS TAKES SOLACE IN PUDUCHERRY POLLSNew Delhi: Scripting history, the BJP on Thursday stormed to power in Assam, bagging a government in the north-east for the first time and dethroning the Congress which also lost the south Indian state of Kerala, while J Jayalalithaa and Mamata Banerjee retained power in the southern state of Tamil Nadu and eastern state of West Bengal with spectacular victories. To be sure, it can be argued that the decline in vote share is an outcome of the CPM contesting fewer seats because of an alliance with the Congress. CPM’s vote percentage fell to 19.7 per cent this time from 29.58 per cent in 2011 Assembly election. We had always taken it head on.
“We might have lost the polls but the alliance will stay intact”.
Flashing the famed victory sign after the resounding triumph, Banerjee thanked the people and dubbed the Congress-Left alliance as a “blunder”, saying both forces had compromised with their ideologies, as per IANS.
A group of state Bhartiya Janata Party leaders and a combined delegation of the Left Front and the Congress met Tripathi and handed over memoranda alleging widespread post-poll violence targeting their respective members.
Facing tough questions on the massive defeat in West Bengal, Yechury said that they hoped to do better – and therefore the results have come across as a setback. CPI (M) bagged 18 seats and is ahead in eight.
Extended deliberations over the terms of the Left-Congress “jote” and confusion regarding its status likely harmed the alliance’s ability to mobilise voters.
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Elaborating on the unusual venue, she said if it is held at Raj Bhavan, only 3,000 people can attend it.
