Following a debacle in the West Bengal meeting election, state Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has stated he doesn’t wish to contest any future election in an alliance which has the Indian Secular Front (ISF) as a companion. The Congress chief stated he has requested the Left Front to not ally with the ISF as he had reservations.
The Samyukta Morcha of the Congress, Left and the ISF didn’t make an impression on the voters. The alliance gained only one seat and that went to the occasion floated by an Islamic cleric in January. “I’ll by no means need the ISF to be a part of an alliance the place we’re additionally current,” Chowdhury, also the leader of the Congress party in the Lok Sabha, told PTI over the phone.
He asserted his party never went to form an alliance with the ISF and it was the Left, which chose to tie up with the party.
“I had asked them not to do so, but they (Left parties) said that they had made a commitment. And now you can see the result,” the Congress chief stated.
Out of the constituents of the Samyukta Morcha, the Congress and the Left events have drawn a clean in the not too long ago concluded meeting elections, whereas the ISF managed to win only a single seat.
Since the Congress already had an understanding with the Left, the Samyukta Morcha was fashioned, Chowdhury stated.
The Morcha”s debacle was “imminent because the people of West Bengal just refused to accept the alliance”, he stated.
In the 2016 meeting elections, the Congress-Left alliance had bagged 76 seats, whereas the BJP may solely handle to win three seats.
This 12 months, the saffron occasion bagged 77 out of the 292 seats which went to the polls.
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