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Mamata
names 228 candidates, leaves 64 seats for Congress
Friday March 18, 2011 08:27:55 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata: The Trinamool
Congress Friday went ahead on its own and released a list of 228
candidates for the upcoming West Bengal assembly elections, leaving
only 64 seats for the Congress which was bargaining for more in
their inconclusive seat-sharing talks.
Trinamool chief and Railway Minister Mamata Bannerjee told reporters
here: "Today I am declaring the list of 228 candidates of Trinamool
Congress. I could have announced the list of remaining 64 seats. But
as an alliance scenario with the Congress is on, we are not
announcing it. But we have the list of other 64 candidates and if
Congress doesn't agree, then we will announce those also."
The talks between union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and
Banerjee were inconclusive March 15 as both could not reach an
agreement on seat-sharing for the April-May assembly elections in
West Bengal.
The Trinamool has given its ally Socialist Unity Centre of
India-Communist (SUCI-C) two seats. In its list of 228, Trinamool
has fielded 34 female and 42 minority candidates.
"Doors of alliance with Congress are not closed yet. On the basis of
the discussion we had last night (Thursday), I have left 64 seats
for them. If the Congress leadership accepts it, I will be happy,"
Banerjee said.
"I wanted an alliance, that is why I waited for a positive nod from
the Congress from March 1-18. But I cannot wait forever because very
few days are left for the process of first phase of elections.
Although we are small parties, but we are the real party in West
Bengal," she said.
Earlier, in 2009 the Trinamool and the Congress, along with the SUCI-C,
had joined hands before the Lok Sabha polls and decimated the Left
Front that has been ruling the state since 1977. The alliance had
bagged 26 of the state's 42 seats in the Lok Sabha.
Both the Congress and the Trinamool decided to break the alliance
for May 30 civic polls last year after failing to clinch a
seat-sharing deal.
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