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Reluctance to let go of her supremacy in West Bengal, reservations regarding the CPI(M) as an alliance partner, disillusionment with the Congress and, more importantly, concerns regarding its minority vote bank – all seem to have played a part in Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee hardening her stance on the INDIA alliance.
BEHIND the recent outburst by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee against officials and police personnel over the state of civic amenities appears to be data emerging from Lok Sabha election results showing the Trinamool Congress (TMC) trailing in urban wards of most districts as well as Assembly segments of many state ministers.
The Congress’s West Bengal unit seems to be in a dilemma. With the All India Congress Committee (AICC) leadership cosying up to the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in a bid to unite the Opposition against the BJP in Parliament and outside, state Congress leaders have been left with little elbow room after having allied with the CPI(M)-led Left Front for several years. The CPI(M), in particular, has maintained its staunch opposition to the TMC.
Upbeat after the election results, a resurgent Opposition is coordinating its moves to mount pressure on the BJP-led NDA government to keep in abeyance the three laws that have been enacted to replace the Indian Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure, and the Evidence Act. The parties are also gearing up to corner the government on the NEET and UGC-NET controversies next week as the 18th Lok Sabha meets for the first time.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is all set to inaugurate a Jagannath temple in the coastal town of Digha in Purba Medinipur district in the first week of July. Sources in the state administration said she could inaugurate the temple on the first day of the Ratha Yatra festival, which begins on July 7.
Despite putting up an impressive performance in the recent Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal, the northern parts of the state remained out of bounds for the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC).
The bodies of 46 Indian workers, mostly from Kerala, who perished in a devastating fire in an apartment in Kuwait, were brought back home on Friday even as a controversy erupted over the denial of “political clearance” from the Centre to Kerala Health Minister Veena George to travel to Kuwait.
The INDIA bloc may have decided to wait and watch developments unfolding in the NDA camp and “take appropriate steps at the appropriate time”, but some parties in the Opposition alliance, particularly the TMC and Shiv Sena (UBT), and, to some extent the AAP, are pushing hard for exploring options to shore up the bloc numbers to checkmate the BJP.
The BJP on Tuesday lost ground in the key state of West Bengal, with its tally plummeting from 18 to 12. The party that posted its best-ever result five years ago faced the second big setback in the state after the loss in the Assembly elections three years ago. The Trinamool Congress (TMC), meanwhile kept up its dominance in state politics, benefitting from the anti-incumbency votes getting divided between the BJP, Left, and Congress even as the anti-BJP vote remained intact.