New Delhi: The Congress party on Thursday formally announced that it is going to ally with the Left parties for the upcoming West Bengal (WB) assembly elections in 2021.
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Congress party President, West Bengal Congress took to microblogging site Twitter and wrote, “Today the Congress high command has formally approved the electoral alliance with the Left parties in the impending election of West Bengal.”
In March-April next year, West Bengal, along with Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam, and Puducherry, gearing up for the polls.
This alliance has made the upcoming elections a triangular contest as they will be fighting against the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) headed and led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which suddenly has witnessed a rise in its popularity in the state over the years.
The central board of committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) had in October affirmed the West Bengal unit’s choice to have a constituent comprehension with every secular party, including the Congress, in the upcoming West Bengal elections.
The CPI (M) polit department had given its thumbs up to the move yet have left an ultimate choice to the central committee.
In the 2016 races, the central committee of the CPI(M) had dismissed the West Bengal unit’s choice to have a strategic seat-offering comprehension to the Congress. In the ensuing decisions, the Congress won 44 seats and the Left Front wound up with only 32.
The total seats in the West Bengal assembly are 294 and 147 are required to form the government in WB.