Kolkata, Nov 13: West Bengal Minister for Fisheries Kiranmoy Nanda today said that under no circumstances his party was going to have an alliance with the Congress or the Trinamool Congress.
Yesterday, Nanda had said that the Left Front should go for early polls because of the series of debacles in the hustings. “There are so many gossips going on… that I have opened a dialogue with the Congress and the Trinamool… that I am ready to join a Front led by them.
But this is really baseless. I can tell you one thing — under no circumstances shall I join any alliance with the Congress or the Trinamool,” the Socialist Party leader who has been minister in the Left Front government since 1982, said.
He also said he had full faith in the leadership of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. “People are spreading canards about our relationship. But I can make one thing clear. I have full confidence in his leadership. He tried his best to bring in development. And it is under his leadership, I hope, that the Left Front will scrape through in the next elections,” Nanda said.
But the minister said he had stuck to his demand that the Left Front should go for a fresh mandate. “I tell you one thing, if we go for polls now it will be advantageus too. All our supporters can plunge into poll battle to regain lost ground. And it can stop, or at least check the political violence going on in the state at present,” the minister said.
State PWD Minister Kshiti Goswamy, who is from the RSP, also said he personally believed that the Left Front government should seek a fresh mandate following the series of poll debacles. “My personal opinion is that the Left Front should go for a fresh mandate. However, this will be discussed in my party,” Goswamy today said.
–Agencies