Archrivals Bharatiya Janata Party and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) have not joined hands at the grass-roots level in Nadia district to defeat the Trinamool Congress in the upcoming panchayat polls in West Bengal.
Party General Secretary Sitaram Yechury took to Twitter to dismiss such reports and said the TMC instead of spreading “lies and canards”, should answer why the CBI was “going slow” in its investigation on Narada, Sarada and Rose valley scams unless it has an underhand deal with the BJP.
Utter lies and rumours spread by TMC to distract from the violence it has unleashed on the Left Front cadres. We categorically deny any such understanding and remain opposed to both the BJP and TMC. @thewire_in pic.twitter.com/wNb0ifnw2F
— Sitaram Yechury (@SitaramYechury) May 8, 2018
A district-level CPI(M) leader in Nadia had said the party had to opt for seat adjustment with the BJP in many seats as several villagers wanted a one-on-one fight against the TMC, but the CPI(M), with an opposite ideology to that of the BJP, never loses an opportunity to describe the saffron party as a “divisive force”.
The bonhomie first came to light in the last week of April when both the parties organised a joint protest rally in Karimpur-Ranaghat area of Nadia district against the alleged violence of the TMC during the panchayat poll process.
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