Buddha to meet PM amid Cong-Trinamool sniping.THE CONGRESS'S honeymoon with the Trinamool Congress seems to be over, though it may be too early to predict a divorce between the alliance partners. The Congress insists the two parties are very much together and would resolve their differences. But eyebrows have been raised as West Bengal West Bengal: see Bengal. West Bengal State (pop., 2001: 80,176,197), northeastern India. It is bordered by Nepal and Bangladesh and the states of Orissa, Jharkhand, Bihar, Sikkim, Assam, and Meghalaya and has an area of 34,267 sq mi (88,752 sq km); chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday. The meeting comes at a time of increasing hostility between the Congress and the Trinamool in the state. The friction came to the fore when the Congress took the CPM's support to get its candidate elected mayor of Siliguri last month. A stung Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee Mamata Banerjee (Bengali: মমতা ব্যানার্জী)(born January 5, 1955) is an Indian politician from the State of West Bengal. is now planning to field " strong" candidates against the Congress in at least two of the 10 assembly constituencies ( Goalpokhor and Sujapur) where by- elections will be held on November 7. Congress sources said Banerjee would commit a big mistake if she fields candidates against its nominees. She would not be able to take on the CPM without the Congress backing in the 2011 assembly polls, they warned. The West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee The elected committee that directs the Congress Party in an Indian state is known as a PCC, or Pradesh Congress Committee. It is elected by card-holding members of the Congress, the world's largest political organisation, and in turn elects State Congress Presidents and delegates to the leadership has taken strong exception to the Trinamool's decision to field its candidates in the two Congress strongholds. Despite Mamata's unconditional support to the UPA (Ultra Port Architecture) A high-speed interconnect between the CPU and memory from Sun. It uses a packet-switched crossbar architecture that can transfer more than 100 MBytes/sec. after the Lok Sabha The Lok Sabhha (alternatively titled, the House of the People, by the Constitution of India) is the lower house in the Parliament of India. The Lok Sabha also stands for the term of the lower house between consecutive parliamentary general elections in India. polls, the Congress- Trinamool alliance has been an uneasy one right from the start. Much to the consternation of the Congress, the Trinamool chief and railway minister had stalled the crucial Land Acquisition Bill in the last session of Parliament. Banerjee, on the other hand, is miffed miff n. 1. A petulant, bad-tempered mood; a huff. 2. A petty quarrel or argument; a tiff. tr.v. miffed, miff·ing, miffs To cause to become offended or annoyed. with the Congress and the UPA government for taking a tough stand against the Maoists in West Bengal. Copyright 2009 India Today Group. All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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