New Delhi: Putting at rest speculation over an alliance with the CPI (M) in West Bengal, the Congress on Monday cleared the na-mes of 11 candidates from the state which includes candidates from Raiganj and Murshidabad—the two contentious seats which the Left Party has refused to part with.
After the third meeting in so many days, the Pradesh Election Committee of Bengal had on Sunday decided against any alliance with the CPI (M) in Bengal following which Bengal Congress leaders flew to the capital and this morning submitted a list of 11 candidates to the party’s central leadership.
The list includes the names of Deepa Dasmunshi from Raiganj, Abu Hena from Murshidabad and Abhijit Mukherjee from Jangipur among others. Sources told this newspaper that at its meeting in the evening, the party’s screening committee is understood to have cleared the names of the 11 candidates.
