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Saturday, October 3, 2009

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Siliguri finger at adamant Mamata
Mamata Banerjee

Calcutta, Oct. 2: Mamata Banerjee's intransigence, more than Deepa Das Munshi's manoeuvres, ruptured the alliance in Siliguri, senior Trinamul leaders said today.

They felt that the party could have accepted the Congress's offer of a last-minute compromise to avert the spat over the mayor's post in the Siliguri Municipal Corporation.

The Congress confirmed that such an offer was made. Darjeeling district Congress president Shankar Malakar revealed that he had rushed to local Trinamul leader Gautam Deb's residence hours before the election yesterday with a two-pronged formula.

First, the Congress was ready to part with the posts of deputy mayor and the chairperson, five mayor-in-council portfolios and two borough chiefs, provided the demand for the mayor's post was dropped.

Second, both Trinamul and the Congress could share power for two-and-a-half years each during the five-year tenure of the Siliguri civic board along the lines of the Jammu and Kashmir formula fashioned in 2002. According to this formula, Trinamul would have had its mayor for two-and-a-half years, while the Congress's mayor would have been at the helm for the remaining period.

"But Trinamul refused everything proposed by us and remained firm on its demand for the mayor's post. Against this backdrop, we were left with no option but to sound out the Left for support to form a stable civic board," said Raiganj MP Deepa, who has been associated with the political events in Siliguri since September 15 when the civic poll results were announced.

It was Deepa who had persuaded Bengal Congress president Pranab Mukherjee and AICC general secretary K. Keshava Rao, in charge of Bengal affairs, to accept the deal in which "we were forced to approach the Left councillors".

"It would have been suicidal had we meekly surrendered the mayor's post to buy peace with Trinamul. Unlike in south Bengal, we deserve to be recognised as a force more formidable than Trinamul in the north because our traditional strong base is there," said a PCC functionary in Calcutta.

The Congress leaders' observations found an echo in a section of the Trinamul leadership as well. These leaders felt that the acceptance of the Congress's offer would have sent a positive message about Mamata to the people of Siliguri who voted for the alliance.

"Today, we are pointing fingers at the Congress for seeking the Left's support. But as the principal Opposition, we should not have shunned our responsibility to keep the alliance intact by accommodating the Congress's last-minute formula. A gesture to honour an alliance partner could have improved our image at a time we are getting ready to tie up with the Congress in the approaching elections," a Trinamul central minister said.

The minister was referring to the November bypolls to 10 Assembly seats and next year's polls to 82 civic bodies, including the Calcutta Municipal Corporation.

A Trinamul general secretary appeared more vocal than the minister.

"In an alliance, it cannot be a one-way traffic all the time. Didi feels that her writ will be enforced everywhere across Bengal but this is not possible if we are serious about taking the alliance forward till the 2011 Assembly polls," he said.

However, it is unlikely that any of these leaders, none of whom was willing to go on record, will muster the courage to articulate their views in front of Mamata who spent the day in Delhi, refusing to meet Congress leaders.

Mamata is expected to fly to Siliguri from Delhi on Sunday to address a public rally there to "publicly apologise" for not being able to form the civic board. The first round of apology was delivered today by Trinamul leader Partha Chatterjee in Siliguri.

An unexplained factor in the Siliguri coup is how Deepa prevailed upon Mukherjee to give the green signal to go on the offensive.

A section of Congress leaders have been saying that Mamata's decision to offer tickets to nine Congress dissidents in the October 13 elections in Arunachal Pradesh did not go down well with the Congress leadership.

"Pranabda, who has always made himself available to Mamata's programmes, is upset at the way Mamata decided to honour Congress dissidents in Arunachal Pradesh," a state Congress leader said.

It is not clear whether the ticket allocation also played a decisive role but Congress sources said it could have added to the tension building up over earlier snubs delivered by Mamata.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091003/jsp/frontpage/story_11569629.jsp

Trinamul sniffs higher Cong conspiracy
Forgive us, Partha tells Siliguri

Siliguri/New Delhi, Oct. 2: Trinamul leader Partha Chatterjee today accused the Congress of operating not at the local but at the state and national levels to bring down his party in Siliguri.

The Opposition leader in the Assembly took out a procession in town to "seek forgiveness from the citizens of Siliguri" and condemn the Congress and the CPM.

The Congress and Trinamul command equal number of seats in the Siliguri Municipal Corporation. When neither ally budged from its demand for the mayor's post, an election for the chair became inevitable. Yesterday, all the 17 councillors of the Left Front voted in favour of the Congress's mayoral candidate, Gangotri Dutta.

"It was a deep-rooted conspiracy hatched at the state and central levels with the only motive to stop Mamata Banerjee and to keep the CPM alive," Chatterjee said at Baghajatin Park from where the protest march began this evening. "We condemn the conspiracy and seek forgiveness from the residents of Siliguri as we could not live up to their expectations."

On Sunday, Trinamul chief Mamata Banerjee will address a meeting at the same park.

Mamata, who is in Delhi, has refused to meet top leaders of the Congress.

She is learnt to have indicated to her close aides that she does not want to meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi as that would be tantamount to "sacrificing her self-respect".

Trinamul sources said Mamata felt Sonia could not have been "ignorant" of the Congress step to seek CPM help in Siliguri.

"She feels personally betrayed by Sonia," a close Mamata aide said.

In Siliguri, Chatterjee spoke of a "well-hatched" plan by some parties who want to cling to power. "People here had voted out the Left and brought the alliance to power. All this happened because of a well-hatched plan of some parties that were desperate to cling to power, ignoring the people's mandate," he said.

CPM leaders in Siliguri, who too are facing questions from their partners, today spoke of continuing to mount pressure on anti-Left forces.

"We protest yesterday's incident of ransacking by Trinamul supporters and want the guilty to be arrested," said urban development minister Asok Bhattacharya, who is believed to have worked out the deal with the Congress at the local level before extending support.

Asked about their pact with the Congress, the CPM leader said his party had acted on the basis of a letter sent by the Darjeeling district Congress president, Shankar Malakar. "Whatever we have done is in the interest of Siliguri. We discussed the proposal and decided to vote for the Congress," he said.

The Congress, which saw its own supporters go on the rampage with Trinamul activists yesterday, was silent.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091003/jsp/bengal/story_11569588.jsp

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