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Trinamool won't back Congress for Rajya Sabha polls
Tuesday March 13, 2012 07:18:32 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress has decided not to
support the Congress nominee in West Bengal for the upcoming Rajya
Sabha polls, state Congress chief Pradip Bhattacharya Tuesday
said.
"As far as I know, the Trinamool has decided not to support our
candidate. I don't know what will happen later on," Bhattacharya
told IANS.
"I have placed the list of probable candidates of the Congress
before Pranabda (union finance minister Praanb Mukherjee) and
Shakeelji (Congress general secretary Shakeel Ahmed)."
On March 30, five Rajya Sabha members from the state would be
elected to fill up vacancies arising on April 2.
According to the arithmetic in the assembly, Trinamool with 185
seats is in a comfortable position to send three members to the
upper house of parliament. The Left Front with 61 members can win
one seat.
A candidate needs 49 votes to cross the finishing line in the
Rajya Sabha race in West Bengal.
The Congress has 42 assembly members. It is also banking on the
support of one independent.
The Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) has four seats, including an
independent, and SUCI-C has one member. The GJM is likely to go
with the Trinamool while the SUCI-C is yet to spell out its stand.
The Congress thus needs six surplus votes from either the
Trinamool or the Left to send its candidate to the upper house.
Going by the coalition dharma, the Congress seems unlikely to seek
support from the Left Front.
Shakeel Ahmed declined to confirm whether Trinamool would support
the Congress.
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