ELECTION

Congress-Trinamul to talk over joint campaign

COOCH BEHAR, March 17: Leaders of the Congress and the Trinamul Congress are to sit over the table tomorrow for talks on joint campaign strategy in Cooch Behar. This is probably the first time the district presidents of the two parties are going to meet face to face.

District Trinamul Congress president Mr Rabindra Nath Ghosh said they will go the Congress office tomorrow to discuss joint poll strategy. As the Trinamul Congress fielded candidate and there is an alliance with the Congress, it is necessary to chalk out a well-knit plan to ensure defeat of the Left Front candidate, he said.

Mr Ghosh said Trinamul Congress supremo Miss Mamata Banerjee will come to attend a workers convention of the party to be held at Samhati Maidan in Dinhata on 28 March. Mr Abu Ayesh Mondal and Mr Mukum Roy also accompany her, Mr Ghosh Said. There is also a probability about a visit of Mrs Sonia Gandhi for electioneering in Cooch Behar in favour of the candidate of Congress-Trinamul alliance, Mr Ghosh added.

On the otherhand, the Trinamul Congress is to start its campaign from tomorrow morning. Prior to that they will go to the Madan Mohan Temple and Nutan Masjid with their candidate Mr Arghya Roy Pradhan to seek blessings. After that they will begin campaigning starting from the red-light area of Ward Number 5, Mr Ghosh said.