New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) The split was inevitable following the West Bengal Pradesh Congress leadership’s loud silence over the Communist Party of India (Marxist) state chief’s repeated overtures at another unity before the upcoming Assembly polls.It also underscores again the attempt of an Opposition alliance as unfeasible, grandly proclaimed less than three years ago as the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc.West Bengal will thus witness a multi-cornered contest, …
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Kolkata, Dec 31 (IANS) A political alliance based on religious tenets, as called by former Trinamool Congress MLA and builder of a Babri Masjid replica in West Bengal, Humayun Kabir, may cost West Bengal’s ruling party dearly in Muslim-dominated Assembly seats next year – as Bihar’s Seemanchal experience shows. Kabir’s unabashed proposal for the consolidation of Muslim votes will prompt a polarisation, which may even favour West Bengal’s principal Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),…