Once Maoist den, Purulia looks towards development in coming polls
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Cong releases first list of 13 candidates for Bengal Assembly polls, 7 new faces
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A consensus on seat sharing for the Bengal polls eluded allies Left and Congress when their leaders met on Sunday, with multiple sources saying the failure did not bode well for the alliance.
A source said Congress leadership demanded contesting from 130 of the 294 Assembly seats. The figure, the source added, was an astounding jump from 92 seats it had contested in 2016 state polls as part of the same alliance.
“If the Congress is allowed to fight in 130 seats, the Left Front is left with 164 seats only,” a CPM leader said. “How will we distribute seats among our Front allies?”
“We have to think of the larger Left family, the 17 Left parties,” the leader added
Congress, Left to formalise seat sharing in Bengal by Jan 31
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