Rethink on mahajot, Sonia told

The ghost of the proposed mahajot with Trinamool Congress m West Bengal continues to haunt the Congress high command. After PCC chief A B A Ghani Khan Choudhary, its now the turn of senior state leader and West Bengal PCC general secretary Sultan Ahmed to petition party chief Sonia Gandhi to reconsider her stand on the grand alliance.

Ahmed, also a MLA, has, in his letter to Sonia, said that "the failure to assess the grassroot sentiment has immensely damaged the goodwill of the Congress and given the impression that the Congress as a party is not willing to fight against the CPI (M)."

The letter comes in the wake of sharp differences in the state unit on the mahajot issue, with a section led by Choudhary in its favour and the one headed by P R Dasmunshi opposed to it as long as the Trinamool continues to be a BJP ally. Sonia was recently able to prevail upon Choudhary to field a candidate for the by-election in but it didn't go down well with the votaries of a grand alliance. Ahmed has charged the AICC of failing to stick to a uniform policy. "While the argument forwarded by the AICC that the party cannot have any direct or indirect alliance with non-secular political outfits is not disputed, in reality we find that the Congress nominee got elected to the post of deputy mayor in New Mumbai getting open support of Shiv Sena councillors who are allies of the BJP" he stated.
 

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