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The INDIA bloc in West Bengal formally collapsed Sunday with the Trinamool Congress announcing its candidates for all 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state, and the Congress hit out at TMC leader and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee saying she has proved that she is a politician who cannot be relied upon.
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Sunday released its list of candidates for all 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, with 25, or more than half of its candidates, first-time contestants. With this, the TMC has attempted to quell any anti-incumbency sentiment that may exist against sitting MPs.
Cricketer Yusuf Pathan will contest elections from Berhampore Lok Sabha constituency as Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate, according to the candidate list released by's party for all of West Bengal. The Berhampore seat is considered a bastion of Congress leader Adhir Chowdhury who has won five times from the seat. He is likely to contest the seat this time as well. Yusuf Pathan joined the TMC on March 10.
The Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress on Sunday announced candidates for allin West Bengal, dealing a blow to the Congress party which had hoped to stich up an alliance with the party for upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
With more bad news coming in from the Bihar front, where JD(U) supremo Nitish Kumar seemed on the verge of returning to the NDA fold, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge Thursday reached out to Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee to find a solution to the seat-sharing impasse in the state.
On Wednesday, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee said seat-sharing with the Congress in the state’s Lok Sabha seats was off the table. The dispute arose over the number of seats the TMC was ready to give to the Congress as part of the INDIA alliance, with the Congress rejecting the offer of the 2 Lok Sabha seats that it had won in the previous polls.
With West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee turning up the heat on the Congress and declaring that her party would contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls alone, the Opposition INDIA alliance seems to be unravelling in the state, where the CPI(M)-led Left has already been up in arms against the TMC.