A section of Congress leaders in West Bengal today said they were apprehensive that the high-command's decision to take the support of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in getting Abhishek Manu Singhvi elected to the Rajya Sabha might not go down well with the party's rank and file and give an advantage to the BJP.
A senior Congress MLA, on the condition of anonymity, said, "The party may have other national-level equations in mind, but there is no point in humiliating us in front of the TMC, which has tried to destroy the Congress in the state by poaching on our leaders and MLAs."
Referring to the TMC's support to the Congress' Rajya Sabha candidate, Pradip Bhattacharya, last year, he said, "Earlier also we had taken the TMC's support to send our candidate to the Upper House (of Parliament)."