In what can be seen as a prelude to the Assembly elections due next year, seat-sharing issue in the upcoming municipal elections seems to have caused cracks in the alliance between Trinamool Congress and Congress.
In many districts, including Murshidabad, Hooghly and Nadia, Congress leaders have already announced to go it alone this time. The situation has worsened in Birbhum and Nadia with a section of Congress leaders having recently defected to Trinamool. Seat-sharing talks ended in a deadlock at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation as well.
Eighty-one municipalities will go to the polls on May 30 in Bengal.
While a lot now depends on state Congress chief Pranab Mukherjee, who has called a core committee meeting in Delhi on Tuesday to resolve the impasse, senior leaders are of the opinion that grassroots leaders should be allowed to decide on the alliance. Mukherjee is also scheduled to hold talks with Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee after the meeting.
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