Left Front has taken up challenge to engrave its name in museum: TMC

Once they had won 236 seats and now they have zero seats in Assembly: Party says in its mouthpiece

KOLKATA: The ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) lambasted the Left Front in the editorial of its mouthpiece Jago Bangla published on Saturday by stating that the Left has taken up a challenge to engrave its name in a museum (Nijeder Naam Jadughore Khodai Kore Rakhar Challenge Niyeche Bamera).

“There are several ageold buildings in the Dharmatala area in Kolkata. Among them, there is a white building which is known as the Indian Museum….. The Left has taken up the challenge to engrave its name in the museum. Once they had won 236 seats and now they have zero seats. In Assembly polls as well as in Lok Sabha polls they have not won a single seat. They will surely score zero in the ensuing Kolkata Municipal Corporation elections. The same will be the case in the Panchayat elections too,” the Bengali editorial's (translated version) read.

It was in 2011 when TMC under the leadership of Mamata Banerjee ended 34 years of Left Front rule in the state by winning convincingly. Gradually, the Left Front has crumbled and in the recently concluded Assembly elections, not a single candidate managed to win.

The editorial has also hit out at the CPI(M) for allying with Congress. “Even after its defeat in the elections, their thought process has not changed. It has ignored inhibitions on the part of its other allies in the Left Front and had unofficially left seats for the Congress sticking to its stubborn attitude," it further reads. The Left Front fielded its candidates in 127 seats and had left 17 wards for ‘non left' candidates.

“The Left Front through its alliance with the Congress is weakening its organisation further," a senior TMC leader said.