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Trinamool keeps door open for Congress`
Trinamool Congress on Monday said that the party was keeping its door open for the congress to jointly fight the CPI(M)-led ruling Left Front in West Bengal in the coming assembly election and stressed that there was no change in its electoral tie-up with the state BJP.
Trinamool Congress on Monday said that the party was keeping its door open for the congress to jointly fight the CPI(M)-led ruling Left Front in West Bengal in the coming assembly election and stressed that there was no change in its electoral tie-up with the state BJP.
Stating that Trinamool Congress was willing to have electoral adjustments with the congress, it`s policy-making body chairman Pankaj Banerjee told newsmen, We have been asking Congress to join hands with us for quite sometime. “Our door is still open for them. We want all anti-CPI(M) forces to join hands and put up one-to-one fight against the Marxists. Let them come and talk to us,” Banerjee said.
To a pointed question which the Trinamool Congress would choose between the Congress and BJP, banerjee replied that his party wanted both parties.
The extended meeting of the tc policy-making body, he said, which started on Saturday, was yet to finalise it strategy for the coming assembly poll. Reacting to the stand of the Trinamool, the Congress said that it was not averse to joining hands with TC provided the party was allowed to field candidates against BJP in 39 seats allotted to the saffron party by TC.
WBPCC vice-president Pradip Bhattacharya, who returned here from the Bangalore after attending the AICC session, said, We have also kept our door open for a tie-up, but in that case TC should allow us to put up candidates against the BJP.
Meanwhile, the state BJP said that it was sticking to its demand of change in some of the seats allocated to the party by TC.
Bureau Report
Stating that Trinamool Congress was willing to have electoral adjustments with the congress, it`s policy-making body chairman Pankaj Banerjee told newsmen, We have been asking Congress to join hands with us for quite sometime. “Our door is still open for them. We want all anti-CPI(M) forces to join hands and put up one-to-one fight against the Marxists. Let them come and talk to us,” Banerjee said.
To a pointed question which the Trinamool Congress would choose between the Congress and BJP, banerjee replied that his party wanted both parties.
The extended meeting of the tc policy-making body, he said, which started on Saturday, was yet to finalise it strategy for the coming assembly poll. Reacting to the stand of the Trinamool, the Congress said that it was not averse to joining hands with TC provided the party was allowed to field candidates against BJP in 39 seats allotted to the saffron party by TC.
WBPCC vice-president Pradip Bhattacharya, who returned here from the Bangalore after attending the AICC session, said, We have also kept our door open for a tie-up, but in that case TC should allow us to put up candidates against the BJP.
Meanwhile, the state BJP said that it was sticking to its demand of change in some of the seats allocated to the party by TC.
Bureau Report