KOLKATA: Bengal CPM secretary Surjya Kanta Mishra on Thursday ruled out any post-poll tie-up with Trinamool Congress in the event of Mamata Banerjee’s party falling short of a majority. He suggested that TMC and BJP could well join hands to form the next government if both parties failed to reach the magic number.
Mishra’s statement came a day after state Congress president Adhir Chowdhury kept alive the “possibility” of a post-poll alliance between the Congress-Left-Indian Secular Front combine and Trinamool. The CPM state secretary’s comment makes it evident that the pre-poll partners might part ways after the polls in the event of a hung assembly. Asked about Chowdhury keeping Congress’ options open, Mishra chose to talk about BJP and Trinamool instead.
KOLKATA: Bengal Congress chief and long-time Mamata Banerjee baiter Adhir Chowdhury has refused to shut out the “possibility” of a post-poll tie-up between the Congress-Left-Indian Secular Front alliance and TMC.
“Politics is the art of the possible,” he said on Wednesday, quoting Bismarck, when asked whether Congress would support Mamata if her party fell short of a majority in assembly polls. “This is a hypothetical question. The Sanjukta Morcha aims to hold office on its own. I don’t know now who will support our Sanjukta Morcha after the poll. We don’t know where Mamata will go if she loses,” he said.
West Bengal Polls - Distance Between TMC and BJP Narrows Contest between 2 Parties
The ongoing Bengal Assembly election is being billed as the ‘mother of all state elections’ for several reasons. Never in the past have so many top Central leaders from Delhi – including PM, Home Minister and Defence Minister - addressed so many election meetings in Bengal, inviting the title of ‘helicopter daily passengers’ from Delhi.
First, for the BJP, Bengal is the proverbial last frontier yet to be conquered. Till 2021, it was almost unthinkable that a party which is traditionally perceived by the average Bengali to be a party of ‘Hindi-speaking non-Bengali vegetarians’ could assemble several lakhs of people chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ on the Brigade Parade ground of Kolkata which has been a bastion of first the CPI-M and then the All India Trinamul Congress.
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Sharad Pawar said that the BJP will retain power in Assam, but other parties will win in other states
West Bengal is likely to witness a triangular contest this time with TMC, Congress-Left-Indian Secular Front alliance and the BJP in the fray
Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Puducherry will be held in a single phase on April 6
Guwahati: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday (March 16) stated that the party will register a big win in Assam.
Reacting to National Congress Party Chief Sharad Pawar s prediction on upcoming assembly elections, Debendra Fadnavis said, Even our adversaries have accepted that BJP will win in Assam. Although I don t agree with Sharad Pawar Ji s whole statement, if he also believes that BJP will win in Assam, it goes on to show that we will register a big win.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday stated that the party will register a big win in Assam. Reacting to National Congress Party Chief Sharad Pawar s prediction on upcoming assembly elections, Fadnavis said, Even our adversaries have accepted that BJP will win in Assam. Although I don t agree with Sharad Pawar Ji s whole statement, if he also believes that BJP will win in Assam, it goes on to show that we will register a big win. Fadnavis made the state during his visit to Guwahati. Sharad Pawar on Sunday said that the BJP will retain power in Assam, but other parties will win in other states.