‘Don’t need Mamata’s mercy’: Congress on seat-sharing with TMC in Bengal

“It is Mamata who needs Congress to win… Congress can fight and is capable of winning more seats on its own. We will show. We don’t need to keep these two seats on Mamata’s mercy…” he added.

Chowdhury went on to say that Mamata cannot stay in an alliance and that “she will do never do anything that Prime Minister Narendra Modi dislikes.”

A tussle is rife between the Congress and the TMC over seat-sharing in Bengal. The TMC has decided to offer only two seats to the Congress — Berhampore and Malda South — which the grand old party had won in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, it is learnt. However, the Congress has asked for more seats from the ruling party in the state, rattling the TMC leadership.

Earlier on Sunday, Chowdhury had accused TMC supremo and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of ruining the prospects of the alliance among INDIA bloc constituents in West Bengal.

Speaking to mediapersons in Murshidabad’s Berhampore, Chowdhury said, “Didi (Mamata Banerjee) is ruining the prospect of the alliance in the state. If you listen to what she said, it will be clear that she did not want an alliance. Her party says that it is interested in the alliance nationally, but not in Bengal. It is clear that the CM does not want an alliance here.”

Chowdhury added that his party is making its own preparations for the Lok Sabha polls.

At a public meeting in North 24 Parganas last week, Banerjee had said, “INDIA will be there across India but in Bengal the Trinamool Congress will put up a good fight.”

Reacting to Chowdhury’s remarks, the Trinamool Congress said the Congress party lacked organisational strength in Bengal to take on the BJP.

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