In a sudden development Bengal Pradesh Congress president Somen Mitra on Wednesday flew off to Delhi after he was summoned by party president Rahul Gandhi for crucial talks.
Gandhi was likely to hold talks with Mitra and Bengal Congress observer Gaurav Gogoi on Thursday noon, sources said adding the State leadership was expected to place three points before the national party president.
Firstly he will be requested by the State president not to send any senior Congress representative in the Trinamool Congress’ January 19 rally of anti-BJP parties called by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata as this would further dampen the spirits of the party workers who had been fighting the Trinamool misrule on streets, PCC sources said adding a decision to the contrary could erase the Congress finally from the grassroots level.
Secondly the State leadership would request Gandhi to finalise about the alliance mechanisms if the party really wanted to go ahead with any kind of adjustments with the Left Front. “In 2016 we could have defeated the Trinamool had the alliance been struck a few months before. Even as last-moment alliance saw us getting defeat in vital 70 seats be a margin of 150 to 4,000 votes. Had we got those seats we could have formed the Government,” a PCC leader said adding the leadership would be requested to take a decision allowing the workers to begin work in advance.