All posts tagged: INDIA Alliance in Bengal

Mamata Banerjee’s New Condition For Congress Tie-Up

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Mamata Banerjee is in north Bengal, at the time as Rahul Gandhi’s yatra passes through Malda (West Bengal): In remarks that indicated that the INDIA bloc’s troubles in Bengal are far from over, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today said the Congress must part ways with the CPM if they want any tie-up with her party. The Bengal Chief Minister also said that the Congress had rejected the Trinamool’s offer for two seats during seat-sharing negotiations and now she “won’t give a single seat”. The CPM has physically attacked me on several occasions in the past. I was mercilessly beaten up. I am alive only because of the blessings of my well-wishers. I can never forgive the Left, I can never forgive the CPM. So those who are with CPM today, they can also be with the BJP. I won’t forgive them,” she told a gathering in Malda. Incidentally, her remarks came on a day when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra re-entered Bengal after its Bihar leg. “I told congress you don’t …

Trinamool Says Adhir Chowdhury ‘Gravedigger’ Of INDIA Tie-Up

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Derek O’Brien said Adhir Chowdhury had repeatedly spoken out against the bloc New Delhi: A day after Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee virtually pulled the plug on an INDIA alliance in Bengal, pushing the grand old party into damage control mode, her party has blamed state Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowhdury for the alliance not working out. Derek O’Brien, Trinamool’s parliamentary party leader in Rajya Sabha and its chief spokesperson, has said Mr Chowdhury had repeatedly spoken out against the bloc. “He is the reason for the alliance not working out in West Bengal,” he told the media in Delhi. “After the general elections, if the Congress does its job and defeats the BJP on a substantial number of seats, the Trinamool Congress will very much be a part of the front that believes and fights for the Constitution,” Mr O’Brien added. Trinamool sources have told NDTV that Mr Chowdhury was the “gravedigger” of the INDIA alliance in Bengal. “It is because of him and his daily rant that things have fallen flat. After the …