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Kolkata: With just two days to go for the Trinamool Congresss 31 December deadline for a decision on seat-sharing in West Bengal, the Oppositions 28-party INDIA bloc appears no closer to resolving the impasse...
At an INDIA bloc meeting on 19 December, TMC supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee backed, according to party sources, by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Samajwadi Party (SP) had set the deadline for her party, the Congress, and the Left front to arrive at a seat-sharing agreement in West Bengal..
The state has 42 parliamentary seats, of which the TMC had won 22, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 18, and the Congress won 2 in the 2019 general election...
However, on 21 December two days after Mamatas deadline a delegation from the West Bengal Congress unit led by its chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury met the All India Congress Committee (AICC) to put forth its reservations about allying with TMC, said Congress leaders reached by ThePrint...
According to Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, a political analyst and author of Mission Bengal: A Saffron Experiment, the Congress can either go with the Left or the TMCbut there is no possibility of the CPI(M) and the TMC coming together.. Despite the CPI(M) identifying the BJP as a greater danger than any regional party at the national level, their Bengal vote bank is essentially anti-TMC, possibly more anti-TMC than anti-BJP, he told ThePrint...
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