The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), with the support of the Congress party in West Bengal, has not only decided to put up a candidate against the Trinamool Congress (TMC) at the Dhupguri bypoll, but will also hold a joint rally on the very day the Indian National Developmental, Inclusive Alliance or INDIA Opposition bloc is likely hold its third meeting in Mumbai.
CPI(M) State secretary Md. Salim and State Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury will hold a joint public meeting at Dhupguri on September 1, when 26 Opposition parties, including the CPI(M), the Congress and the TMC, will chalk out a plan to take on the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Mr. Salim said that the Left parties were trying to bring the people against the BJP-Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) attempts to hijack the Constitution, and the TMC doing the same in West Bengal. The CPI(M) leader also added that since the Trinamool had no influence outside West Bengal, the question of the rally’s impact on the Opposition alliance did not arise.
