“Alliances are being forged at the ground level. We have told our people to have alliances with only anti-CPM and secular forces. I have travelled to places like Malda, Murshidabad, Birbhum, North 24 Parganas districts and I have noticed alliances emerging there,” he said during a meet-the-press programme organised by Kolkata Press Club.

“The CPM is trying to break this but they will not be able to succeed in their designs. Anyway you will see a lot of permutations and combinations changing after the panchayat elections are over,” Dasmunsi, who is also the Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting, said.

He rejected Trinamool’s allegation that the Congress is hobnobbing with the CPM in north Bengal. “You come to Coochbehar and see whether there is any understanding between the Congress and the CPM. It’s all canard,” he said.