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FIREWORKS were guaranteed in the Krishnanagar seat in West Bengal, given how the BJP and sitting Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra slugged it out in the outgoing Lok Sabha. The BJP has added an extra spark with its choice of candidate to take on Mahua.
With less than a month to go for the beginning of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the once mighty CPI(M) finds itself tangled in a web of its own making in West Bengal. It is the largest party in the Left Front, whose other members include the CPI, Forward Bloc, RSP and other smaller parties. The Left Front has a seat-sharing arrangement with the Congress in the state as part of the opposition INDIA coalition. It also has a separate seat-sharing agreement with the Indian Secular Front (ISF) that has continued since the 2021 state Assembly polls, when the ISF was launched.
Following aweek of negotiations, the Congress is close to finalising a seat-sharing pact with the Left Front and the Indian Secular Front (ISF) in West Bengal. But, some differences within the Left have not been ironed out yet.
In a reshuffle ahead of the Lok Sabha polls on Monday, the Election Commission (EC) moved West Bengal’s Director General of Police (DGP) Rajeev Kumar to the state’s Information and Technology department and appointed him its secretary.
With the poll dates for the coming Lok Sabha elections in, the Trinamool Congress and BJP are off the ground in West Bengal, having announced candidates for all the 42 seats and 20 constituencies, respectively. However, presumptive allies Congress, Left Front and Indian Secular Front (ISF) are yet to untangle their seat-sharing puzzle in Bengal.
Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has had her share of firefighting when it comes to her nephew and anointed successor, Abhishek Banerjee. But there can be only so much family one can take.
WITH the Congress keeping its hopes up regarding an alliance with the Trinamool Congress, till the party dashed the same and unveiled names for all the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal on Sunday, the grand old party is still to work out a seat-sharing arrangement with its partner Left. This is even as the BJP too has released nearly half the names from its list.