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Forward Bloc quits Tripura Left Front
26 Jan, 2008, 0141 hrs IST, TNN

KOLKATA: The Forward Bloc has finally parted ways with the CPM in Tripura. The party quit the Left Front in the state on Friday and announced that it would field its candidates in 15 constituencies in the assembly elections. It’s the first time in 30 years that the Left Front is splitting in Tripura.

“We are no longer in the Left Front. We have snapped our ties with the Front to protest the autocratic attitude of the CPM. The CPM should not call the ruling coalition here a front now,” Forward Bloc Tripura state secretary Shyamal Roy told ET.

The sudden development does not bode well for the Left Front in the state, which is going to assembly polls on February 23. The Bloc does not have any representative in the 60-member Tripura assembly, but this development may possibly damage the Left’s image. The Bloc had demanded three seats from the CPM, but the latter refused to allot seats to the Bloc.

Bijan Dhar, member of CPM central committee and state secretariat, told ET that his party would not hold any talks with the local Bloc leadership over seat-sharing. “We have already informed them on Thursday that it would not be possible for us to offer three seats,” Mr Dhar said.

The Tripura CPM does not seem perturbed at all, although the central leadership seems to be still interested, at least on paper, to preserve the unity of the Left Front. However, cracks surfaced in the Front long back, and there have been bickerings between the CPM and its Left allies on several issues, especially in West Bengal.
The Bloc leadership in West Bengal has often been talking about quitting the coalition.

The Left Front had secured 235 seats in the 294-seat West Bengal assembly, and the Forward Bloc’s strength is 23 seats. The Bloc leadership in West Bengal has often been talking about quitting the coalition. Observers are not sure whether the developments in Tripura will now induce West Bengal Bloc secretary Ashok Ghosh to take such a step in the state too.

The Bloc in West Bengal has already announced that it will contest the panchayat elections in May independently.