‘Don’t marketing campaign in opposition to us’: Congress urges allies for Bengal elections

Congress chief and Rajya Sabha MP from West Bengal, Pradip Bhattacharya wrote a letter to NCP supremo Sharad Pawar and RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav, expressing his concern over each the heavyweight leaders presumably campaigning for Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress for the upcoming West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections. Bhattacharya, a 2nd time period Rajya Sabha MP representing West Bengal, speculates in his letter that the presence of “Star Campaigners” like Sharad Pawar and Tejashwi Yadav will “create confusion among West Bengal voters”.
Congress chief Pradip Bhattacharya writes to NCP’s Sharad Pawar & RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav over campaigning with Trinamool Congress, for #WestBengalElections2021 “Your presence as Star Campaigners will create confusion among West Bengal voters. Avoid campaigning for TMC,” he stated— ANI (@ANI) March 17, 2021
In his letter, Mr. Bhattacharya explicitly requests each Sharad Pawar and Tejashwi Yadav to not marketing campaign on behalf of Mamata Banerjee’s TMC. In the run as much as these elections, a number of Congress allies, whether or not on the Central stage or in state governments, have distanced themselves from Congress, selecting to assist the Trinamool Congress as an alternative. The foremost reasoning of Congress’s a number of allies appears to stem from the truth that Mamata’s TMC, which is presently governing West Bengal, is the strongest bulwark in opposition to the so-called “communal forces” of the BJP.
The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), an ally of the Congress in Bihar’s Mahagathbandhan and Jharkhand’s UPA authorities, has already backed TMC earlier this month. After assembly Mamata Banerjee, RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav on the time stated, “This is a battle for values. Laluji ka nirnay hai Mamataji ko full support karna hai (Laluji has decided that we should fully support Mamata ji). We will stand by her wherever we can. This is a larger fight to stop communal forces from dividing our nation.” Mr. Yadav additional went on so as to add, ““Bengal has a lot of Hindi-speaking people from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand. I would appeal to everyone to back Mamata Didi with all our strength to ensure her win. We support her in her fight for Bengal’s language, culture, literature.”
The 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections are scheduled to be held between 27 March to 29 April 2021 in 8 phases. These elections are a three-way political battle between the coalitions of the Trinamool Congress together with Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, the NDA with BJP at its helm together with 5 hill primarily based Gorkha events and All Jharkhand Students Union, and the Sanyukta Morcha with the Congress get together at its helm together with its as soon as arch-rival Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Islamist Abbas Siddiqui’s Indian Secular Front (ISF).