Moreover we did not have the organisational strength that the TMC had, ” Adhir Ranjan Choudhury, West Bengal Pradesh Congress President said. Mamata, who lacks elementary skills in governance, is bound to commit more mistakes in her second term. The new government will take oath of office on May 27, she said.
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The alliance was an alternative for some of the urban populace that wanted to vote against the Trinamool Congress apart from the Left and Congress loyalists across the state.
Both the Left and the Congress, which remained at the receiving end under the Trinamool rule, made a decision to come to a seat adjustment this time-a unique move that the state has ever seen the two forces which fought each other for decades to make. Unlike the 2016 assembly elections, the CPM-led Left Front and the Congress contested separately in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
The discontent with the Left came nearly in tandem with the Chief Minister’s comment on the failed Left-Congress camaraderie that, “The CPI(M) has committed its biggest political blunder by allying with the Congress. The CPI(M) will have to suffer for making this compromise with their ideology”. Coming on the heels of the BJP’s success in Assam, an upbeat Mr, Sidharth Nath Singh said the new members would work as a strong opposition in Bengal.
Born to a middle class family and daughter of a freedom fighter and student of law and education, Banerjee in her initial years in public life was mentored by veteran Congress leader Subrata Mukherjee – now ironically a senior minister in her state cabinet.
The Chief Minister who played down questions on her alleged prime ministerial ambitions said, “I am a small person who has worked at various levels in Centre and here”. It got a respectable vote share in the assembly polls even though it was widely perceived as having sold out to Mamata Banerjee. In 2004, Mamata was the only one to win a Lok Sabha seat from her party.
“The people believed it is better to vote for Mamata Banerjee”, he said.
“It is convenient to blame the Congress for the decline in vote share”. With the election commission calling all the shots during the six-phase polling, no one can accuse the ruling party of any vote manipulation.
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Even while the results were still being tallied, Mamata began addressing a press conference because the margin was so wide that defeat was an impossibility. According to preliminary results, The TMC, however, lost about 10-12 seats because of internal sabotage including Jadavpur where Manish Gupta – the giant killer of the 2011 election, when he defeated Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee who lost to Sujon Chakravarty of the CPM.
