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Meanwhile, the alliance talks between the Congress and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) remain held up over differences between the two parties on the constituencies offered by the TMC to the ruling party at the Centre. While the Congress had demanded 16 out of the 42 parliamentary seats in the state, the TMC was said to have agreed to concede 14, including the six presently held by the Congress and the newly created constituency of Malda (North).
The Congress is, however, not happy about the remaining seven constituencies offered by the TMC. These constituencies are Left bastions from where Left candidates had won with huge margins in the last election.
The TMC list offered to the Congress also includes Somnath Chatterjee’s Bolpur constituency. Purulia, Jadavpur and Bankura also figure in the TMC list. AICC General Secretary in charge of West Bengal Keshav Rao said there was “no confusion” about pre-poll alliance between the two parties and they will meet soon to finalise the list of constituencies the two parties will contest.
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