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Kolkata: The alliance Congress and Communist Party of India (Marxist) or the CPI(M) have formed in West Bengal is a conspiracy and voting for it will tantamount to voting for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Trinamool Congress (TMC) chairperson and chief minister Mamata Banerjee said at Nadia district on Sunday while addressing her first Lok Sabha campaign rally.I)..
Although Banerjee bracketed Congress, CPI(M) and BJP, her partys parliament members attended the INDIA groups rally held on Sunday at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi in protest against Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwals arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the alleged excise policy scam..
With TMC leaders present among their counterparts from the other 27 parties in the INDIA group, it was apparent that Banerjees attack against Congress and the Left stemmed from her plans to stop the BJP from securing anti-establishment votes in Bengal..
On March 10, when TMC fielded candidates from all 42 seats in Bengal, Banerjee announced that her party would contest against the BJP, Left and Congress..
Reacting to Banerjees remarks at the rally, CPI(M) central committee member Sujan Chakraborty said, TMC has fielded three candidates who are officially still in BJP and BJP has fielded several who were in TMC..
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