Addressing a rally in Kolkata on Sunday, Left Front Chairman Biman Bose said: "Dadabhai, didibhai have joined hands to compromise with communal forces. So the time has come to be cautious against this danger", signalling that its campaign for the coming Assembly elections in the state would focus on the plank that there was no real difference between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Trinamool Congress.
A day before, Sitaram Yechury, general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), had alleged that there was "match-fixing between the BJP and the Trinamool" because they needed each other. While the Trinamool needed the BJP to stall the Central Bureau of Investigation from probing the Saradha scam, the BJP needed the Trinamool in the Rajya Sabha to help get some crucial bills passed.
