Kolkata:
The West Bengal Congress on Monday rejected the appeal by nonagenarian CPI (M) leader Jyoti Basu to Congress supporters to vote for the Left in the upcoming by-elections to ten assembly seats in the state on November 7.
Describing it is an absurd and unacceptable proposal, PCC working president Pradip Bhattacharya said, "This is a clever ploy on the part of the CPI (M) leadership to divide the Congress-Trinamool Congress alliance votes".
"After successive debacles at the hustings, the CPI (M) is now desperate to break the opposition's unity", he said.
In a surprise development, Basu on Sunday appealed to Congress voters for support to Leftists accusing the Trinamool Congress of unleashing violence together with the Maoists.
This is the first time that the CPI (M) had directly appealed to Congress supporters to vote for the Left.
"Our result in the last Lok Sabha election was poor. Some of our sympathisers and friends had voted against us. It is not their fault. We could not take our view points properly to the people. There were some mistakes on the part of the CPI-M... I am specially requesting you to come forward for peace, development and discipline and support the Leftists", he said in a statement.
The Congress-Trinamool Congress alliance is confident of winning all the 10 seats in the by-election, Bhattacharya said. "The results will prove that the alliance is solid and
any attempt to break it will not succeed."
Describing it is an absurd and unacceptable proposal, PCC working president Pradip Bhattacharya said, "This is a clever ploy on the part of the CPI (M) leadership to divide the Congress-Trinamool Congress alliance votes".
"After successive debacles at the hustings, the CPI (M) is now desperate to break the opposition's unity", he said.
In a surprise development, Basu on Sunday appealed to Congress voters for support to Leftists accusing the Trinamool Congress of unleashing violence together with the Maoists.
This is the first time that the CPI (M) had directly appealed to Congress supporters to vote for the Left.
"Our result in the last Lok Sabha election was poor. Some of our sympathisers and friends had voted against us. It is not their fault. We could not take our view points properly to the people. There were some mistakes on the part of the CPI-M... I am specially requesting you to come forward for peace, development and discipline and support the Leftists", he said in a statement.
The Congress-Trinamool Congress alliance is confident of winning all the 10 seats in the by-election, Bhattacharya said. "The results will prove that the alliance is solid and
any attempt to break it will not succeed."
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