TMC not same as BJP: CPIM tells party cadre in letter highlighting 'post election status'

After the historic drubbing in the assembly election, in which the Communist Party of India (Marxist) failed to secure a single seat, the party is now explaining its cadre a fundamental mistake: Confusing the TMC with the BJP!

Trinamool Congress (TMC) is not the same as Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), that is what Communists in Bengal have realised after two successive electoral debacles in the state. Two months after the historic drubbing in the assembly election, in which the Communist Party of India (Marxist) failed to secure a single seat, a first in 44 years, the CPI(M) has started explaining its cadre a fundamental mistake: of confusing the TMC with the BJP.