Admitting that the Left Front is rapidly losing its acceptance among people due to its wrong political ideology, Bhattacharjee said CPM has shifted its political stand. “We have forgotten that Left parties like CPM and RSP were floated as revolutionary forces”.
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The Left, which once held complete sway over this part of country, with its writ running for 34 years till 2011, now stands third with only 32 seats- 12 behind the Congress, which is set to play the main opposition.
International Desk – The ruling Trinomul Congress of Mamata Banerjee is poised to reassume office in Indian State of West Bengal after her party made a lead in the election race.
West Bengal Assembly Elections 2016 were held for a total of 294 assembly seats in the state. “As a result, aspiration among the party leaders has gradually been increasing that resulted derailment in all aspects”, he said. “The people have rejected the allegation”, she had asserted. The Congress and the Left had friendly fights in three of the four seats, benefiting the Trinamool. “It is the state leaders who did the seat adjustments to defeat the Trinamool Congress”, Dhar added.
“BJP is not a fool to have any kind of understanding with the Trinamol”. After bagging an impressive 16.8% of the votes in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP simply failed to maintain the momentum and strengthen the party organisation in the state.
The tally of BJP which had one seat in the outgoing House, has gone upto three with state party president Dilip Ghosh winning from Kharagpur. Forty years ago in the 1970s, Congress’ Siddhartha Shankar Ray was the last one to have a single party rule but with a lesser number of legislatures. “The CPM had gone overboard on the alliance with the Congress, even at the cost of Left partners”. And the Congress, completely divorced from ground realities, was living in a fool’s paradise by assuming that it would return to power for the fourth time in the state.
While senior Congress leader Abdul Mannan won by 7,282 votes with 44 per cent vote-share from Champdani in Hooghly district, courtesy CPI(M) voters, Left candidates in the neighbouring constituencies of Haripal and Pandua were defeated.
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The largest circulated daily Anandabazar Patrika’s headline said “Didii – Dusho par” (Didi crosses 200) and acknowledged that the people’s trust for Banerjee has remained intact. “If we can’t check the further erosion of our vote bank and support base then we are ought to face serious questions over the very existence of CPI(M) and Left in Bengal”. To take a crude example, the left in West Bengal still suffers heartburn over the shifting of the Nano plant to Gujarat, so much so that its candidate in Singur campaigned in a Nano auto this time. It is looking that BJP is expecting for its debut in the legislative assembly in West Bengal. The other two seats won by BJP are Madarihat and Baishnabnagar. All the prominent leaders won with huge margins, despite a triangular contest in many seats.
