Subrata Mukherjee and Mamata Banerjee met again at the latter's residence on Tuesday, after a gap of almost five years. This time, they
met to discuss seat-sharing between Congress and Trinamool Congress in the coming civic elections, including the Kolkata Municipal Corporation polls.
Except for a brief visit during the Singur crisis, the Pradesh Congress Committee working president had stayed away from the Kalighat residence of the Trinamool Congress chairperson ever since relations soured between the two before the KMC elections when he left Trinamool and formed Paschimbanga Unnayan Congress Mancha to join hands and contest the civic polls. The move had cost Mukherjee his mayor's chair and helped CPM in recapturing the KMC board.
Everything seemed to have changed during the day when Mukherjee was closeted with Mamata in a meeting that lasted for over half an hour. Later, the two left for the book fair in the same car, with Mamata occupying the front seat and Mukherjee the rear one.
Addressing assembled newspersons jointly after the meeting, Mukherjee said he had come to discuss the seat sharing formula with Mamata as he was in charge of the civic polls on behalf of PCC. Both of them vehemently denied that Mukherjee's visit had anything to do with who would be projected as the candidate for the post of mayor for the alliance in the KMC election. The possibility of Mukherjee returning to Trinamool was brushed aside.
Both of them asserted that Congress and Trinamool would go to the civic polls in an alliance. "CPM is trying to break the alliance, we are trying to keep it in tact," Mamata said. Calling it a "peoples' alliance," she said the "machinations" of CPM would fail and the alliance would materialize not only in the civic polls but also in the next assembly elections. She said Mukherjee shared Trinamool's view that the CPM-led government had lost the right to rule because of the incidents of attacks on opposition supporters.
Source : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/Subrata-calls-on-Mamata/articleshow/5529426.cms
met to discuss seat-sharing between Congress and Trinamool Congress in the coming civic elections, including the Kolkata Municipal Corporation polls.
Except for a brief visit during the Singur crisis, the Pradesh Congress Committee working president had stayed away from the Kalighat residence of the Trinamool Congress chairperson ever since relations soured between the two before the KMC elections when he left Trinamool and formed Paschimbanga Unnayan Congress Mancha to join hands and contest the civic polls. The move had cost Mukherjee his mayor's chair and helped CPM in recapturing the KMC board.
Everything seemed to have changed during the day when Mukherjee was closeted with Mamata in a meeting that lasted for over half an hour. Later, the two left for the book fair in the same car, with Mamata occupying the front seat and Mukherjee the rear one.
Addressing assembled newspersons jointly after the meeting, Mukherjee said he had come to discuss the seat sharing formula with Mamata as he was in charge of the civic polls on behalf of PCC. Both of them vehemently denied that Mukherjee's visit had anything to do with who would be projected as the candidate for the post of mayor for the alliance in the KMC election. The possibility of Mukherjee returning to Trinamool was brushed aside.
Both of them asserted that Congress and Trinamool would go to the civic polls in an alliance. "CPM is trying to break the alliance, we are trying to keep it in tact," Mamata said. Calling it a "peoples' alliance," she said the "machinations" of CPM would fail and the alliance would materialize not only in the civic polls but also in the next assembly elections. She said Mukherjee shared Trinamool's view that the CPM-led government had lost the right to rule because of the incidents of attacks on opposition supporters.
Source : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/Subrata-calls-on-Mamata/articleshow/5529426.cms
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