Mamta Banerjee: Very optimisticThe recent Lok Sabha elections in early in the month of May have led to the miserable defeat of the Left Front ,led by the Communist Party of India(Marxist).The Left were humiliated by the Congress-All India trinamool Congress in West Bengal,the state which the Left considered it as an unintruded fortress since 1977.The Trinamool wave created havoc in the Left cadres with Trinamool bagging 19 seats from previous tally of 1 in 2004.Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee is all set to compound the Left's miseries in the next Assembly plls scheduled in 2011.
The Congress and Trinamool agreed to contest elections together to combat the Left forces. Both the parties contested together on 41 out of 42 seats.While Congress won 4 seats out of 14 it contested,Trinamool bagged 19 out of 27.In contrast ,Left seat tally fell from 34 in 2004 to 15 in 2009. The Trinamool -Congress combo gained maximum advantage from the Nandigram and Singur issues. Many senior Left leaders lost in their constituencies like Mohammad Saleem of CPI(M) lost to Sudip Bandopadhyay of Trinamool in his Kolkata Uttar constituency,Lakshman Seth to Adhikari Suvendu of Trinamool from Tamluk ,Sujan Chakraborty to Kabir Suman of Trinamool from Jadavpur and many others.It may be noted that Mohammad Saleem had earlier won from the same constituency in 2004 elections.
It will be interesting to see whether the Left recuperates from the post electoral blues or fails to defend its fortress which it has held since 1977.
recent state govt. policies too were a set bak along with the infighting n trinmul was quick to pounce on the opportunity, but its still difficult to say that left will loose the election.
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