Left Front partner demands early assembly polls in WB

The series of poll debacles especially after the by-election results yesterday, prompted junior Left Front partner West Bengal Socialist Party to demand advancing the 2011 assembly elections.

"The people's mandate has gone against the Left Front and it is high time that the government recommends early assembly elections. We should sit in the opposition in the assembly," party president and state fisheries minister Kironmoy Nanda told reporters at Writers' Buildings.

Nanda said that his party had decided to urge the Left Front chairman for convening an immediate meeting of the Front and finalise early assembly elections.

He said that the Front should have gone for assembly polls after the humiliating defeat in the Lok Sabha elections.