Kolkata, May 15: The Left Front in West Bengal has evidently failed to win back confidence of Muslims since the 2008 civic and panchayat elections as they lost around 90 seats in the just concluded Assembly polls where the minority community has a strong presence.
Muslims have a good presence in nearly 125 seats across 10 border districts of which over 90 have been won by the Trinamool Congress-Congress combine.
In the June 2008 civic elections, the Trinamool Congress and Congress combine won eight civic bodies against the Left’s five. While in the Lok Sabha polls next year, the Trinamool and the Congress, along with the SUCI bagged 26 of the state’s 42 seats.
After the landslide win in 2006, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had embarked on aggressive industrialisation and urbanisation involving acquisition of farmland.
–PTI