In Bengal the CPM will get the rural and town votes.In Kolkata, where the TC and Congress have some ground, but not strong enough, CPM should lose few seats.In all CPM is expected to lose some seats in 2009, and the Left tally can go down by 5-10 seats.Else where, the Lefts will lose ground.So the current 60 odd seats in Parliament should be around 40 odds in 2009.That should be good enough.CPM will not benefit from allying BSP , becoz in WB SC/ST is a non issue, and maybe that could be negetive effect on CPM count.Prakash Karat is a very poor administrator and he will make left lose ground in WB for sure.
RE:The problem with Bengal
by udayakumar on Jul 25, 2008 02:37 PM Permalink
This is just a wishful thinking like the corporate controlled media. Left has strong grass roots.. They have uplifted the rural people economically. Even when this corporate media was crying hoarse that left has lost the panchayat elections, they actually won it. But only margin has been reduced. Even a small reduction in margin gives huge joy to the biased media.
RE:The problem with Bengal
by vikash on Jul 25, 2008 03:12 PM Permalink
What is your salary Mr. Udayakumar from CPI(M)... These guys want to take india back to 20th century... Hell with CPI (M), let us go and teach CPI(M) a lesson.
RE:The problem with Bengal
by kata dhon on Jul 25, 2008 02:31 PM Permalink
For the information, the party which will act as pro poor is best politically supported in WB-This the general Bengali voter trend.For this reason Mamata, always plays this card and she is most powerful opposition.Religion,Casteism and other issues can never over power the economic issue in Bengal.
