We waited 210 days for Congress, seat talks failed because of Adhir Chowdhury: TMC

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KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress had formally communicated to Congress that it would fight all 42 Lok Sabha seats in Bengal, a senior..

Trinamool also said the three reasons why. had failed in Bengal were (Pradesh Congress president) Adhir Chowdhury,..

TMC said it had waited for 210 days after INDIA blocs conclave in Patna in June last year for negotiations to materialise, but by not reining in Chowdhurys belligerence against the party, Congress had dug its own grave...

The partys Rajya Sabha leader, Derek OBrien, said: Even in Delhi (at the INDIA bloc meeting in December), we had urged Congress to wrap up seat-sharing talks by December 31..

The Trinamool leader said he refused to perceive this lightly. Adhir Chowdhury is the Congress leader in Lok Sabha, a post equivalent with what Mallikarjun Kharge has in Rajya Sabha..

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