Mamata Appeals to Left’s Partners to Oust CPIM
After shocking the CPIM in West Bengal with her astonishing triumph in Lok Sabha elections, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee is perhaps out to script debacle of the Left in assembly, too.
While participating in an interactive programme on a Bengali TV channel on Monday night, Banerjee appealed to the Forward Bloc and Revolutionaly Socialist Party (RSP), the constituents of the Left government in West Bengal, to switch sides and join her in ousting CPIM.
“I will again make an appeal to RSP and Forward Bloc. People of Bengal want a change. They want all of us to work together to defeat the CPI-M,” she said.
“I will be glad if the RSP takes a political stand. Let people of different thoughts work together to defeat the CPI-M,” Banerjee added.
For the purpose, the Trinamool chief was also prepared to hold a dialogue with these two Left parties.
However, she excluded another Left Front partner – the Communist Party of India (CPI) – saying it was too close to the CPI-M.
The Left Front, which has been ruling the state since 1977, suffered a big jolt in the Lok Sabha polls by securing merely 15 seats, while the Trinamool Congress-Congress-Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) alliance secured 26 seats.
