Senior CPM leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Sunday told voters in Howrah,which is going for a Lok Sabha byelection on June 2,not to vote for the Trinamool Congress as the party is entering into an alliance with the BJP again. Campaigning for the partys candidate Sridip Bhattacharya,the former chief minister said: A very significant thing in the national politics has happened here. The BJP has not fielded candidate here and it clearly shows it has opened its doors for the Trinamool Congress. It is clear that the BJP and the Trinamool are coming together again. Now,if you vote for the Trinamool,you will be actually voting for the BJP which is now bringing (Gujarat CM) Narendra Modi as their next leader. It is the same Modi who presided over the mayhem at Gujarat riots. People say Gujarat has marched forward in terms of development but this is all meaningless. Their record in industry,health,education,child mortality,etc,is not that bright. In this situation you must vote for the CPM, Bhattacharjee added. Bhattacharjee also criticised the Mamata Banerjee government for claiming of creating 10 lakh jobs in the two years of its reign.
