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Mamata Banerjee hopes to fight Bengal polls together with Congress

Following the finalisation of the seat-sharing deal between with Congress for the assembly polls, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today said she wants to work together to take on the ruling Left Front in the coming battle.

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Mamata Banerjee hopes to fight Bengal polls together with Congress
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Following the finalisation of the seat-sharing deal between with Congress for the assembly polls, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today said she wants to work together to take on the ruling Left Front in the coming battle.

"We all want to work together to bring back democracy by ending Left Front misrule in the coming elections," Banerjee told a press conference shortly after Congress general secretary Shakeel Ahmed announced the seat-sharing deal in Delhi.

The Trinamool supremo, who had last Friday unilaterally announced her party's list of 228 candidates giving 64 seats to Congress and two to its own ally SUCI, today agreed to the Congress leadership's request to settle the seat-sharing deal by allowing it one more seat.

"Trinamool Congress will contest 227 seats, our ally SUCI two and Congress 65", Banerjee said minutes before releasing her party's election manifesto at her Kalighat residence.

She said that after minor alterations, Trinamool had given Canning (East) and Phansidewa constituencies to Congress while taking from the latter Jamuria seat.

Today's settlement on the issue ended days of uncertainty over the electoral alliance of the two parties, particularly after Banerjee had set a deadline till four pm today for Congress to accept 64 seats or else her party would announce candidates in all those seats.

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