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Congress for an anti-Left alternative

KOLKATA: Though the Congress has failed to forge a formal electoral anti-Left alliance with the Trinamool Congress for the coming panchayat polls in West Bengal, it is looking beyond the elections and is hopeful of setting up an alternative secular front with the party.

“We must keep trying to build a viable alternative in the State and the Congress will take the initiative after May 18 by taking all of us [non-Left secular parties] together,” Priyaranjan Dasmunsi, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister, who is also president of the State unit of the party, said here on Sunday.

The three-phase rural polls are to be held on May 11, 14 and 18.

The absence of an alternative secular front in the State had enabled the Left Front to hold on to power, Mr. Dasmunsi added.

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