Read more about West Bengal polls: Left-Cong alliance yet to finalise seat-sharing deal on Business Standard. Congress leaders on Monday said that the parties are yet to finalise their seat-sharing arrangement, even as the state Assembly poll schedule has been announced
The mega political show was organised at a time when the Left front and the Congress have already finalised on a seat-sharing agreement. Talks between the Left and ISF have also been sealed as both the parties have agreed upon 30 seats for the newly-floated political outfit.But
Congress president Sonia Gandhi. File photo.
NEW DELHI: The West Bengal unit of the Congress on Thursday sought party president Sonia Gandhi’s approval for initiating negotiations with Pirzada Abbas Siddiqui-led Indian Secular Front (ISF) and form a grand alliance for the assembly elections. If the state unit gets the nod, the poll-bound state would witness a three-cornered contest between the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), its main rival BJP and the grand alliance of the Congress, CPI(M) and the ISF.
Senior state Congress leader Abdul Mannan, who is also the leader of opposition in the assembly, wrote a letter to Sonia Gandhi and said he has already started unofficial dialogue with ISF and WBPCC president Adhir Chowdhury has visited Siddiqui of Furfura Sharif shrine.