Ranchi: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Wednesday claimed that the people of West Bengal would once again vote for the Left Front and accused the Congress of joining hands with a party which is in "league" with the Maoists in West Bengal.
"You can ask the Congress what effect the 'mahajot' (grand alliance) will have on it as it has joined hands with a party which is in league with the Maoists," CPI-M Politburo member Brinda Karat said without taking the name of Trinamool Congress when asked to comment on the TMC-Congress alliance.
"You should ask the Congress what effect the 'mahajot' in West Bengal will have on it. As far as we are concerned all the Left parties are united and undoubtedly the people of West Bengal would again express their belief in the left front," she added.
The CPI-M had often accused the TMC and the Maoists for the trouble in Bengal's Nandigram and Singur.
Replying to a query on the Third Front, Brinda Karat said the Left and its allies were optimistic of a good show by the non-BJP and non-Congress parties in the Lok Sabha elections.
"The people have rejected the policies of both the BJP and the Congress. Now they want an alternative. The non-BJP and non-Congress parties can provide that," she claimed.
Asked what prevented the front from projected Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati as its leader, she said "according to the Constitution the post of prime minister is not a directly elected one. Therefore, all these issues will be relevant only after the results are out."
On veteran Marxist Jyoti Basu's statement that if the Third Front was in a position to form the government the CPI-M might join it, she said Jyoti Basu was the tallest and most beloved leader of the party.
After the elections, she added, undoubtedly his counsel would be placed before the party's central committee which would take the decision.
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