With Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress deciding to go alone in the Lok Sabha poll in West Bengal, the stage seems to be set for a triangular contest in the State amid a clamour for minority votes.
According to political analysts, the seat sharing between the TMC, Congress and the CPI (Marxist) was highly unlikely from the beginning as the Banerjee-led outfit has never ceded any space to any Opposition party in the State.
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