PM remark on Left hints at TMC-BJP alliance: Biman Bose

Bose said the PM’s comments were significantly made just before Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s meeting with Modi on March 9 and with the Municipal Council elections here next month, showing that the process of a mutual understanding has already been initiated.

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“As I have said before, there is an under the table settlement between BJP and TMC. Both the parties are ready. They are just weighing their conditions,” Bose said. He said after the Left came to power in the late 70s, they gave a new direction to industrialisation and in the 80s and 90s, a solid platform was built to attract investment in Bengal.

“In rural Bengal, market for industrial products rose from Rs 7-8 lakh in the late 70s to Rs 20-22 lakh in the 90s.

These figures definitely don’t indicate that Bengal had suffered during the Left rule,” he said.

Referring to the MLC elections, he said the Left was ready to get into a tie-up with all Left-minded parties which believed in “minimum issues and maximum unity”. “I will call leaders of SUCI (C) and CPI (ML) (L) and talk to them for a possible alliance but with parties such as BJP or Congress, there will be no question of an alliance,” Bose said.

He also said the party’s district committees have been given a deadline of March 15 to come up with their list of candidates for the municipal polls. “We have already asked them to be ready for the announcement of candidates. As soon as the names are announced, all candidates will be fitted in,” he said.