Don’t want to see Left parties as zero: Mamata Banerjee

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Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamatha Banerjee showed sympathy on Left parties on Monday, on the wiped out of Left parties Bengal’s political landscape in the present elections.

She commented on Left parties that I am opposed to them politically but I don’t want to see them as zero. Her comments are unexpected from a woman who dislodged the Left Front’s 34-year rule after spending a chunk of her political career on it.

She also said that if Left parties had won seats instead of BJP it would have been good, indicating that she preferred the Left to the BJP in the opposition benches of the state Assembly.

Mamatha said about the Left parties in their over zealousness to favour the BJP, they have sold themselves and become a signboard. They have to think about this. This will be the first time since Independence that there will be no Left or Congress members in the 294 seat Bengal assembly.

The parties which dominated the state politics for the longest time have now ceded their space to the BJP. In the assembly poll results declared on Sunday, the BJP won 77 seats. The remaining 213 went to Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress, giving her a third straight term.

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