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Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has asked her party members not to attack the estranged ally Congress directly during their campaign for the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) elections or blame it for split in the alliance, keeping in mind the larger objective of defeating the CPM.
Banerjee today held a two-hour meeting with her party’s 140 candidates at the Trinamool Bhawan.
“We will not allow the division of the anti-CPM votes in the municipal polls. We will not get into any controversy regarding who is responsible for the breaking up of the alliance ahead of the KMC elections,” Trinamool MP Sudip Bandopadhyay said after the meeting. “The CPM might think its secret pacts will salvage the party in the municipal polls, but that is not going to happen,” he added.
A Trinamool councillor from south Kolkata said though Banerjee criticised the Congress for breaking the alliance, she instructed her party leaders not to get “abusive” in any way during the rallies.
Top leaders of Trinamool and Congress are ready to hit the streets for campaign from tomorrow. While Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who is also the state Congress chief, will attend a public rally tomorrow in north Kolkata, the Trinamool chief will follow suit on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Bandopadhyay, the Trinamool’s chief whip in the Lok Sabha who allegedly used “foul language” against a CPM member, said he is writing a letter to Speaker Meira Kumar to clear his position.
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Pranab Mukherjee and Mamata Babejee sould hold joint public meetings and ask the voters to cast their votes either TMC or Trinamool depending on which party is strong where to facilitate post poll alliance to form civic boards.They should bring home to people what's now happening between the two voluntary is separation only to strenghten atraction between them afterwards.