UPA-3 project in WB entangled in too many complications

Earlier, Mamata has made it clear that there is no question of her party backing Congress in Bengal

Nowhere else in India is the anti-BJP opposition coalition as tangled with so many hitches and complications as it is in West Bengal.

On the one hand West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who is also the supremo of the state's biggest political force Trinamool Congress has made it clear that there is no question of her party backing the Congress in West Bengal because of the latter's understanding with the CPI(M).

On the other hand, state Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has made it clear that in West Bengal both the Trinamool Congress and the BJP are their equal opponents and hence it will go forward in strengthening it ties with the CPI(M)-led Left Front.

Chowdhury's call has been reciprocated with equal enthusiasm by Left Front leaders like CPI(M)'s state secretary Md Salim and Left Front chairman Biman Bose. Both of them feel that the Left Front and the Congress are political opponents in the southern state of Kerala also.

In the present situation, according to political observers, a pre-poll alliance between the Congress and the Trinamool Congress can be ruled out for the big battle for 2024. At the most, feel observers, there can be a post-poll understanding which again will depend on the performance of the Congress and other regional parties in 2024.