Hours after the Trinamool Congress announced its candidates for all the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, the Congress on Sunday said an alliance with Trinamool is possible until withdrawal of nominations. The party also asserted that any agreement has to be finalised through negotiations and not unilateral announcements.
“Our doors are always open and an alliance can happen anytime before withdrawal,” Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said. The names of the candidates were announced by the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday.
But West Bengal Congress unit chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury lashed out at the Trinamool after the latter fielded cricketer Yusuf Pathan from his [Mr. Chowdhury] Lok Sabha constituency of Berhampore.