Kolkata:

Former Crew India cricketer Yusuf Pathan is the Trinamool’s candidate from Baharampur, a Congress stronghold represented by its Lok Sabha chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. Although the Congress is but to call its candidates for Bengal, Mr Chowdhury is more likely to search a recontest from the seat that he has represented 5 instances as an MP.

On his probably face-off towards the previous cricketer, Mr Chowdhury stated the Trinamool ought to have despatched Mr Pathan to Rajya Sabha if the celebration wished to honour him.

“Outsiders had been nominated to the Rajya Sabha from Bengal. If Trinamool wished to honour Yusuf Pathan, it ought to have despatched him to the Rajya Sabha. If Mamata Banerjee had good intentions, she would have requested the (INDIA) alliance to get Yusuf Pathan a seat in Gujarat. However right here he’s chosen as a candidate to polarise the frequent man and to assist the BJP, in order that Congress could be defeated,” he stated.

He stated Ms Banerjee has confirmed at this time that no political celebration ought to belief a pacesetter like her.

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“Mamata Banerjee is in concern that if she continues to be within the INDIA alliance, (Prime Minister) Modi ji will probably be sad. By separating herself from the INDIA alliance, she has despatched a message to the PMO, ‘do not be sad with me, I’m not standing to battle towards the BJP’,” stated Mr Chowdhury.

Mr Pathan thanked Ms Banerjee for the chance and stated, “As representatives of the individuals, it’s our responsibility to uplift the poor and disadvantaged, and that’s what I hope to attain.”

The Mamata Banerjee-led celebration at this time introduced candidates for all 42 seats in Bengal, making it official there isn’t a alliance with the non-BJP events within the state.

The Congress and the Trinamool are collectively within the INDIA alliance – at the least for the optics – although it has not formed right into a seat-sharing technique in Bengal. The Trinamool is believed to have provided Baharampur and one other seat to the Congress, however determined to go solo because the grand previous celebration pressed for an even bigger share of seats.

In a swift response, the Congress stated it has repeatedly declared its need to have a good seat-sharing settlement with the Trinamool in West Bengal.

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“The Indian Nationwide Congress has at all times maintained that such an settlement must be finalised by negotiations and never by unilateral bulletins. The Indian Nationwide Congress has at all times wished the INDIA group to battle the BJP collectively,” stated senior Congress chief Jairam Ramesh.

Fielding a preferred determine like Mr Pathan from Mr Chowdhury’s stronghold is being seen because the Trinamool’s response to his repeated assaults on the celebration.

Mr Chowdhury, a staunch Trinamool critic, had earlier stated his celebration “will not beg for seats from the TMC” and accused the INDIA accomplice of “serving Prime Minister Narendra Modi” relatively than strengthening the opposition alliance. Livid over such remarks, the Trinamool had asserted that “badmouthing alliance companions and seat sharing cannot go hand in hand”.