As you all know that the election result is going to be announced today now it is just a matter of time we get a new mayor. Who you think will be the new mayor. Is it from TMC or CPIM or Congree. The time will tell the story till now you can see the game of politics has alredy started. Just take look at this incident. They are the twain who were not supposed to meet after their breakup over the Indo-US nuclear deal; certainly not in West Bengal. Yet, a day before the results of the Bengal municipal polls are to be declared, political circles were excited by indications that the CPM was willing to walk the extra mile to support a Congress nominee as the next mayor of Kolkata in case the Trinamool Congress failed to score an outright win.
It all started with a meeting between finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and CPM’s Sitaram Yechury on Tuesday. Yechury stoutly denied there was any effort for a post-poll Congress-CPM tie-up, claiming the issue did not even figure in the discussion he had with Mukherjee. But Yechury’s vehemence wasn’t convincing because it did not sit well with the CPM’s “whatever it takes” resolve to stop Mamata from taking control of Kolkata. “If there is a difference of 10 seats between the Left and the Congress in Kolkata, we can support a Congress mayor. What is wrong? We did this in Siliguri,” a CPM leader said.
The Left’s anxiety can easily be understood. Mamata represents the most formidable threat it has faced in the state and it fears that her win in the municipal polls will provide her with a ballast strong enough to put an end to the more than three-decade-old CPM rule.
The audacious Marxist manoeuvre is aimed at widening the rift between the Congress and the Trinamool, which saw the two parties going it alone in the municipal polls and has given the CPM hope that it may just be able to dodge a rout. CPM strategists recognise very well the virtue of alliances — the reason for the Left Front’s durability. They also realise that a Mamata-Congress combination, which got the better of the CPM in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls, will be far more difficult to beat in the assembly elections.
The plot to split the Congress and the Trinamool got a boost because of the persisting divergence between the UPA partners on a host of issues and, more importantly, the refusal of the former to accept Mamata’s political suzerainty.
