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Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee laid the blame for the breakdown in seat-sharing talks in the state for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls on the Congress.
According to ANI, Speaking at a public event in West Bengal, Abhishek, who happens to be the nephew of TMC supremo and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, said while the basic norm of an alliance is for the partners to finalise a seat-sharing deal at the earliest, the Congress had been dragging their feet in the matter for months.
#WATCH | On Congress, TMC MP & party’s National General Secretary, Abhishek Banerjee yesterday said, “We have been repeatedly asking them for seat-sharing since June. But nothing has happened. In last meeting in Delhi, our chairperson had given them a deadline to decide by 31st… pic.twitter.com/6fuZcL4L3c
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“When you are in an alliance with someone, the first thing you do is finalise the seat-sharing deal. We had been asking them about the seat-sharing arrangement since June. Seven months passed and they did nothing. At our (INDIA’s) last meeting in Delhi, Mamata Banerjee even set a deadline of December 31 (for the Congress to finalise its seat-sharing arrangement with the TMC in Bengal). We’re in the last week of January now and they still haven’t done anything,” Abhishek said.
“The general elections could likely be held in March and we had no clue which seats to contest and which to set aside for our partner,” the TMC leader added.
