Lok Sabha Polls: TMC's state of affairs reflected in its choice of candidates, says Adhir Chowdhury
Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Monday claimed that the Trinamool Congress was in a sorry state of affairs owing to internal squabbles and that was being reflected in its choice of candidates for the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal. The TMC announced the names of its candidates for all the 42 seats in the state, leaving no constituency for its INDIA bloc alliance partners, at its mega rally in Kolkata on Sunday.
«TMC is in a sorry state of affairs owing to internal squabbles,» the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee president told reporters at a press conference here.
Claiming that Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee is «directionless», the leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha said the TMC was having to show off its might through a public meeting which seemed to be more like a corporate show than a political event.
«Trinamool Congress' bad condition is getting reflected in its choice of candidates», he said.
The Congress, CPI(M)-led Left Front and the TMC are constituents of the opposition bloc INDIA, which suffered a setback with the ruling party in West Bengal announcing candidates for all 42 seats in the state for the coming Lok Sabha elections.
The TMC and the CPI(M) have already expressed strong reservations about having any truck with each other in West Bengal, but the Congress national leadership had kept hopes alive for a seat-sharing arrangement with the TMC in Bengal.
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