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Trinamul Congress activists in dilemma over Mamata’s stance

STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE Siliguri, 31 July The Trinamul activists are in a dilemma in several gram panchayats in north Bengal districts where they…

STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE
Siliguri, 31 July
The Trinamul activists are in a dilemma in several gram panchayats in north Bengal districts where they do not have a majority number of elected members and they are in no position to seek help from others at a time when Miss Mamata Banerjee is keeping equidistance branding the rival parties as foes at present.
In order to keep control over the GPs and to keep the CPI-M out of power from the panchayats, the Trinamul Congress activists would have to seek support from both the Congress and the BJP members and even the Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha and its ally Jharkhand Mukti Morcha in
the Dooars.
The Fulbari-I gram panchayat in the Rajganj block of Jalpaiguri, is an appropriate example to explain the plight of Trinamul activists at the grass root level.
The Trinamul Congress bagged 10 seats in the 22-member Fulbari-I GP. The Left has also secured 10 seats, the BJP one and the Congress one.
At least 12 seats are required to keep control over the board. Interestingly, the Fulbari-I GP was under the control of Trinamul and the BJP in the past five years.
The Trinamul Congress tried hard to bag majority seats here this time but failed to bag the required seats under the leadership of the north Bengal development minister Mr Gautam Deb, despite implementation of several developmental works.
Notably, the Trinamul Congress lost one seat from Kamrangaguri area, where the construction of chief minister Miss Mamata Banerjee&’s dream project mini-secretariat is
going on.
The CPI-M candidate, Md Ali, won the seat with the help of the seemingly rebel Trinamul Congress candidate, who contested against its official candidate here. 
However, a group of CPI-M supporters helped a Trinamul candidate to win another seat at
Kamrangaguri.
 Their objective was to complete a under-constructed road by setting up a culvert for their village.
The north Bengal development department had allotted huge funds and started the construction of village roads at
Kamrangaguri in the Fulbari-I GP of Jalpaiguri a few months ago.
Now voters here started discussing about the fate of Fulbari-I GP and how the Trinamul Congress leadership would be able to manage the Congress and the BJP candidates.
This is also at a time when elections for the pradhan of the board would be held when the chief minister wants to keep equidistance from them at present.
A senior Trinamul leader in Jalpaiguri, Mr Mridul Goswami, said: “The matter is sensitive and it is still under the consideration of the state leadership.”
“We are waiting for their instructions. We have to follow their directions in such cases.” the senior leader also said.
Mr Goswami also pointed out that there are four hung panchayat samiti in Jalpaiguri district where the GJMM and JMM candidates are key factors to form the board.
In case of two panchayat samitis ~ Madarihat and Dhupguri ~ the Trinamul Congress is in no position to form the board without the help of the GJMM, JMM and even the Congress there.
In Madarihat, out of total of 26 seats, the LF secured 12, TMC five, GJMM seven and JMM two.
In Dhupguri, out of 48 seats, LF won 23, TMC 17, Congress five and GJMM three.

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