Bhawanipore bypoll exposes Cong-Left fault lines
The Hindu
While the Congress does not want to oppose Mamata Banerjee, the Left sees it as aiding the BJP
The by-election to the Bhawanipur (Bhabanipur) Assembly segment in Kolkata, where Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is all set to contest, will test the strength of the five-year electoral Left-Congress alliance in West Bengal. Differences in the alliance have come out in open on whether to field a candidate against the Chief Minister who will be seeking re-election from the constituency she represented in 2011 and 2016. The electoral experiment of the Samyukt Morcha, where the Left and Congress tied up with the Indian Secular Front, failed miserably in the 2021 Assembly polls — neither the Left nor the Congress could win a single seat for the first time in several decades.
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