archive: Ghani khan makes Congress, CPM blush
Ghani khan makes Congress, CPM blush
Santanu Benerjee
The Indian Express
June 29, 1999
Title: Ghani khan makes Congress, CPM blush
Author: Santanu Benerjee
Publication: The Indian Express
Date: June 29, 1999
Close on the heels of "a pro-CPI(M) statement" by Congress Legislature
Party leader Atish Sinha, West Bengal Congress president ABA Ghani
Elan Chowdhury has put both his partymen and the state CPI(M)
leadership into extreme embarrassment. Ghani Khan, addressing a
two-day district party conference in Burdwan district yesterday,
reportedly told the gathering that "the state Congress is willing to
come to an understanding with the CPI(M) to defeat the Trinamool
Congress and its communal ally, the BJP, in the coming Lok Sabha
elections."
Khan's statement has not only embarrassed his own party but also, the
CPI(M), which has been criticised by the Left Front partners - the
Forward Bloc and the Revolutionary Socialist Party -for its efforts to
'promote a pro-Congress' line within the front. Reacting to the
statement, CM Jyoti Basu denied any possibility of an understanding
with the Congress, which he termed as "enemy party and thus has to be
fought in the earning elections."
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