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IANS
New Delhi
Notwithstanding talk of a post-poll alliance, the Congress is all set to tie-up with the Left against the ruling Trinamool Congress for the Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal where it won 4 seats with a vote share of nearly 10 per cent in 2014.
Battling a surge of defections to the Trinamool and fund crunch, the state leadership, as opposed to the central leaders’ wishes for a truck with the Trinamool, insists on a tie-up with the Left with whom it had an electoral arrangement during the 2016 Assembly polls.
Congress leaders privy to the development told IANS that an agreement has been reached on contesting the polls jointly with the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the Communist Party of India (CPI) in at least 30 of the 42 seats.
Besides Congress President Rahul Gandhi and CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury discussing the issue, the Bengal Congress has been in talks with the Communist leaders to work out the modalities of the tie-up.
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15/02/2019
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