Mamata's nephew Abhishek Banerjee says there will be no trace of Left and Cong in Bengal soon

Senior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday claimed that there would be no sign of the Congress and the CPI-M in West Bengal by the end of this year.

"Please wait for a few more days. I can just tell you that there will be no sign of the Congress and the CPI(M) by the end of this year," Banerjee, nephew of state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, asserted.
Over the past few months a large number of elected representatives of the Congress and Left Front constituents switched over to the Trinamool Congress and several Zilla Parishads and municipalities controlled by the Left Front and the Congress have gone to the TMC fold. The TMC has now set its eye on the Left Front-controlled Siliguri Municipal Corporation and Congress-controlled Murshidabad Zilla Parishad.

Only today a councillor of the Siliguri Municipal Corporation today joined the TMC. In Murshidabad, a Congress stronghold and bastion of state president Adhir Chowdhury, the party is facing a serious challenge to defend its zilla parishad as eight of its members, one of CPI(M) and another from AIFB had recently joined the TMC, taking the number of TMC members to 29 in the 70-member council.

The opposition parties are crying foul over the development as they alleged that the ruling party was out to finish the Opposition in the state which is detrimental for a healthy democracy.