With by-elections in six meeting seats scheduled to be held on November 13, alliance or seat sharing between the Congress and the Left is but to be finalised.
Subhankar Sarkar, newly appointed Pradesh Congress president, informed The Indian Specific that enter from the social gathering’s district presidents has been sought earlier than renewing their alliance with the CPIM.
“Opinions have been sought from different leaders too… solely after suggestions on the bottom scenario, opinions and discussions, will we be capable to take a name on the difficulty,” mentioned Sarkar, talking over the cellphone.
“I’m but to get a proposal or hear something from them,” he added when requested whether or not CPIM leaders have contacted him.
In the meantime, Sujan Chakraborty, CPIM central committee member, mentioned, “Our social gathering’s coverage is to rally all towards BJP within the centre and rally all towards the TMC and BJP in West Bengal. There isn’t a change in our stand. It’s the proper and prerogative of the brand new state Congress president to hunt opinions from his social gathering members and district presidents.”
On November 13, meeting seats of Sitai (Coochbehar district), Madarihat (Alipurduar district), Taldangra (Bankura district), Natihati (North 24 Parganas district), Haroa (North 24 Parganas district) and Medinipur (Paschim Medinipur district) will go for polls.
Within the 2021 Meeting elections, 5 of those seats have been gained by the TMC and one by BJP. Neither the Indian Nationwide Congress nor the Left Entrance gained a single meeting seat, regardless of contesting collectively.
“We’re within the technique of strengthening our organisation. There may be an environment of concern. However we’ll do our greatest and we nonetheless have our organisation within the districts. The regulation and order scenario is unhealthy within the state. We have now seen the R G Kar incident and now the Nadia incident,” Sarkar mentioned.
The CPIM, Congress, and Trinamool Congress are all companions within the nationwide INDIA alliance, however within the Lok Sabha polls (held from April to June this 12 months), the Congress and Left fought collectively towards the ruling TMC in West Bengal. The then state Congress president Adhir Chowdhury was vociferous towards the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress.
Whereas the Left couldn’t make a mark, the Congress gained only one Lok Sabha seat (Isha Khan Chowdhury from the Maldaha Dakshin seat), whereas Adhir Chowdhury misplaced from the Baharampur seat. The Congress had gained two seats within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. This 12 months, out of West Bengal’s 42 seats, TMC gained 29, whereas BJP gained 12 and Congress gained one.
In July this 12 months, the Trinamool Congress swept Meeting by-polls in West Bengal after its candidates gained all 4 seats that went to the polls. In all 4 seats, the BJP got here a distant second whereas Left-Congress alliance candidates misplaced their deposits in three of the 4 seats.
