Brinda, Sudip explain rationale behind Cong-CPIM seat sharing in Tripura

Congress and CPIM leaders came together at Sabroom under South Tripura district on Friday in support of CPIM candidates in two Assembly constituencies under the sub-division. 

The leaders also explained the reasons behind forming seat-sharing understanding between CPIM and Congress against the BJP.

An election rally was held at Sabroom in support of CPIM candidate Prabhat Choudhury in 39-Manu and Jitendra Choudhury in 40-Sabroom constituencies on Friday in which among others, CPIM politburo leader Brinda Karat and Congress leader Sudip Roy Barman were present.

Notably, Congress and CPIM went into seat-sharing understanding and Left Front put up candidates in 47 seats out of the 60 Assembly seats leaving only 13 seats.

Both Brinda Karat and Sudip Roy Barman fired verbal salvos at the ruling BJP. They blamed the ruling party for ‘throttling’ democracy in the State.

Targeting BJP, Brinda Karat said, “The ruling party deceived the people with its ‘job in miss call’ statement. Even as it is possible to recruit 16 thousand 500 teachers, the ruling dispensation did not recruit. Moreover, it is handing over the educational institutions to the private players”.

Karat also blamed the central government for slashing budgetary allocations in several welfare schemes.  

In his speech, Sudip Roy Barman dubbed BJP’s Sankalp Patra (manifesto) as another document of deception like Vision Document.

On the alliance between Congress and CPIM, Roy Barman said, “Both parties have faith in democracy, secularism and socialism. People were deprived of their democratic rights for the last five years. Congress and CPIM came together keeping in mind the interest of the people – the seat sharing deal was clinched to put up a strong resistance against BJP by minimising split in anti-BJP votes”.

Leaders of both parties hailed the move and reiterated that the understanding is to safeguard the interests of people.

Both Brinda Karat and Sudip Roy Barman exuded confidence that people would oust BJP in the Polls and vote for the candidates put up by Congress and CPIM jointly.