Amid talk of a possible tie-up between Congress and CPI-M in the coming Assembly election in West Bengal, AICC Vice-President Rahul Gandhi has called the state Congress leadership in Delhi for a meeting on February 1.
"Rahul Gandhi asked the state Congress leadership and the party's frontal organisation leaders to go to Delhi on February 1. Leaders of the state Congress will express their views in that meeting (regarding the coming Assembly poll)", WBPCC President Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said.
On the possibility of Congress entering into a poll tie-up with the Marxists, he said, "The grassroot level workers of both Congress and CPI-M want the two parties to join hands to fight the terror unleashed by the ruling party (Trinamool Congress). The people in the state also want a change."
"I will convey it to the AICC leadership. They will discuss the issue and take a decision," he told a Bengali TV channel.
Conceding that Congress was not strong in all the districts, Chowdhury, however, said that no formal proposal regarding a tie up has come from the CPI-M leadership.
"We have seen it in newspapers".
Former chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and CPI-M state secretary Surjya Kanta Mishra had sent out message to Congress from public meetings to join hands with Left Front to oust Trinamool Congress.
