``To foil any attempt by the CPM to rig the panchayat elections, a special request to the Union Home Minister L K Advani would also be made to deploy Central forces,'' Sinha disclosed. The request would be made during the visit of the party's delegation to New Delhi soon, according to party sources.

Incidentally, Sinha also revealed that the West Bengal unit of the BJP is sending ``a delegation to the Union Finance Ministry to submit documentaryevidence about the Personal Ledger Accounts irregularities indulged in by the Left Front Government at the panchayat level.''

Meanwhile, relations between the BJP and the Trinamool Congress are souring over seat adjustments for the coming panchayat polls. So much so that Mamata Banerjee has issued thinly veiled threats to go it alone if the BJP makes ``inflated'' demands for panchayat seats. The two sides have had several rounds of negotiations over seat-sharing but failed to arrive at any formula acceptable to both. Claims and counter-claims by district workers of the two parties have made the adjustment even more difficult.

``There is no formula as such. We are expecting to get all the seats we had won last time as well as the ones in which we came second to the Left Front winners,'' Sinha says. The BJP won about 2,600 seats in the 1993 panchayat polls, while the Left Front won more than 46,000 and the Congress 18,600.The State committee of the BJP began its two-day meeting here on Saturday anddiscussed the issue. Several members argued that the party should get at least one-third of the 71,000 panchayat seats because its strength had increased several times in the past five years.

But Mamata Banerjee is unwilling to concede the BJP demand for that many seats. She will meet district leaders of her party today and take a decision on the number of seats to be given to the BJP. The seats apart, the BJP is not happy about the way Mamata has dictated some terms for the poll campaign.