FB-CPM : No unity in sixth meet

 

COOCH BEHAR, April 17: The CPI-M and the Forward Bloc failed to reach to a consensus over sharing of seats at Zilla Parishad tier even at the sixth round of bipartite talks that was held today. The next round of talks will be held on 21 April. The Cooch Behar district unit of the Forward Bloc announced that they would file nomination papers of their candidates in the disputed seats tomorrow.

 

After the sixth round of bipartite talks the district CPI-M secretary and district Left Front convenor Mr Chandi Pal claimed that they attained remarkable progress to reach to a consensus over seat sharing in the three-tier panchayat elections. In the 27 ZP seats out of total 29 seats they already attained an understanding. Today, Forward Bloc submitted nominations in nine ZP seats and the CPI-M in 17 seats.  Tomorrow the CPI-M will file nomination for the eighteenth seat, Mr Pal said. He said that discussion is going on to attain a consensus in the remaining two seats of Bhetaguri-Putimari and Chandamari.

 

On the otherhand, district Forward Bloc secretary Mr Udayan Guha said they today filed nominations in nine ZP seats. Tomorrow they will file nominations in another two seats. If they can attain unity in the meeting of 21 April they may withdraw these nominations. Mr Guha made it clear that attaining a total unity is very difficult in Cooch Behar district because the process for that started very late.

 

The FB leader said there was many ghost candidates of both the parties against official candidates in the previous rural polls. This time they will try to overcome this problem and for that the local leaders of both the parties are discussing the matter to sort out the problems, Mr Guha said. []

 

PHOTO : Greater Cooch Behar Democratic Party (GCDP) president Mr Ashutosh Barma and other leaders check nomination papers of their party's candidates prior to submission to the Cooch Behar Sadar SDO. The party is a proponent of a separate Greater Cooch Behar state. In Cooch Behar on Thursday. – DEBASHIS BHAUMIK.

 

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COOCH BEHAR, April 17: Broadband service of BSNL in Cooch Behar is lying out of order since Monday. The members of the business community and the journalists are the worst sufferers. BSNL officials assured that they are trying to restore the service but no improvement was found till Thursday evening. The Sancharnet and NetOne services are also not functioning well. []