Kolkata: In a jolt to seat-sharing agreement with Trinamool Congress for the crucial civic election to Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), Congress on Saturday announced a list of its candidates for 88 of the 141 wards.
WBPCC working president Pradip Bhattacharya announced the list of party nominees for the coming polls which was cleared by the party high command.
Hectic parleys among senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee, AICC general secretary Keshav Rao and Ahmed Patel, political secretary to AICC chief Sonia Gandhi, on Friday failed to yield any result towards arriving at a consensus.
The state Congress had turned down Trinamool's offer of 25 seats and insisted that the party be allowed to contest in 51 seats including the ones where Congress either came first or second in the last KMC polls held in 2005.
Stating that 25 seats were unacceptable, Pradip Ghosh had said yesterday that the party had prepared its list and was awaiting instructions about it from Pranab Mukherjee.
Demanding 51 seats, Roy said he and his colleagues would be "flexible" if discussions were held on the basis of this demand. "For the past five years, I have been pitching for poll alliance. But the alliance should not be such that it brings down the dignity of the party," he said.
WBPCC working president Pradip Bhattacharya announced the list of party nominees for the coming polls which was cleared by the party high command.
Hectic parleys among senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee, AICC general secretary Keshav Rao and Ahmed Patel, political secretary to AICC chief Sonia Gandhi, on Friday failed to yield any result towards arriving at a consensus.
The state Congress had turned down Trinamool's offer of 25 seats and insisted that the party be allowed to contest in 51 seats including the ones where Congress either came first or second in the last KMC polls held in 2005.
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Stating that 25 seats were unacceptable, Pradip Ghosh had said yesterday that the party had prepared its list and was awaiting instructions about it from Pranab Mukherjee.
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Demanding 51 seats, Roy said he and his colleagues would be "flexible" if discussions were held on the basis of this demand. "For the past five years, I have been pitching for poll alliance. But the alliance should not be such that it brings down the dignity of the party," he said.
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