Statesman News Service
MALDA, 3 MARCH: Trinamul Congress has asked the Congress to have 50 percent of the English Bazaar Municipal seats and 40 percent of the Old Malda Municipality seats in the forthcoming civic elections. While the EBM has 25 seats, Old Malda has 18.
Following the party’s core committee meeting in Jalpaiguri yesterday, the Trinamul Congress Malda district president Mr Goutam Chakraborty, has proposed the Congress an alliance in the two civic body elections in Malda.
According to Mr Chakraborty , his party has decided that an alliance with the Congress was necessary to oust the Left Front in the forthcoming municipal elections in the state including Malda. “The party senior leadership has also instructed us to start a dialogue with the Congress leadership at the district level and to finalise alliance and seat adjustment amicably for the civic polls”, Mr Chakraborty said today.
“I have already conveyed my party’s stand regarding seat adjustment to the Congress leadership in Malda including the EBM chairman Mr Narendranath Tiwari”, he added.
It is learnt that the Trinamul has demanded 50 percent of the EBM seats and 40 percent of the Old Malda seats. The Trinamul, it is learnt, would also accept a minimum six seats in Old Malda.
Reacting to the Trinamul’s proposal Congress leader and EBM chairman Mr Narendranath Tiwari, said: “The Trinamul’s 50 percent seat demand in English Bazaar is reasonable but its demand of 40 percent seats in Old Malda is not just. A Congress-Trinamul alliance for English Bazaar is imperative”.
The EBM chairman further said: “Mr Chakraborty has spoken to me about the matter and I have conveyed his message to the district Congress president and South Malda MP Mr AH Khan Choudhury. He would be arriving here on 6 March and take the final decision”.
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