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Mahajot — Ghani Khan willing to leave Cong

NEW DELHI, APRIL 16: BJP's demand for an "honest and transparent" alliance seems to be as much responsible for A B A Ghani Khan ...

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NEW DELHI, APRIL 16: BJP’s demand for an "honest and transparent" alliance seems to be as much responsible for A B A Ghani Khan Chowdhury’s willingness to walk out of Congress as the rigid stand of Congress leaders on forming the grand alliance against ruling CPM in West Bengal.

Former West Bengal BJP president Tapan Sikdar told The Indian Express, “Ghani Khan Chowdhury’s proposal to have an alliance with Trinamool Congress and contest against the BJP, is inimical to the basic spirit of Mahajot”.

“The alliance necessarily has to be transparent and honest. There can’t be any duplicity in intentions. For grand alliance, all anti-CPM parties will have to join hands. It has to be one-to-one fight against CPM candidates”, Sikdar, now Union Minister of State for Communication said.

Despite top BJP leaders including Home Minister L K Advani’s call to welcome the Congress in grand alliance, Sikdar made it clear that in prevailing circumstances, no truck was possible with the Congress. “To join Mahajot, Congress leaders would first have to leave their parent organisation”, he said.

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