SUCI with Trinamool, but will oppose Congress

July 1st, 2009 KOLKATA - Continuing their electoral success, West Bengal's opposition parties Trinamool Congress and Congress Wednesday crushed the ruling Left Front (LF) in the urban civic body polls, winning 10 of 16 municipalities and leading in one. Six weeks after they suffered a debacle in the Lok Sabha polls, the LF continued to lose ground, particularly in south Bengal, as urban voters reposed their faith in the opposition.

June 28th, 2009 KOLKATA - Voting was held Sunday for 16 municipal bodies in West Bengal in polls seen as the first trial of strength between the ruling Left Front and the opposition Trinamool Congress and Congress combine after the Lok Sabha elections. There were reports of a bombing at Maheshtala in South 24 Parganas during the polling, and a couple of policemen sustained injuries.

May 30th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal's ruling Left Front Saturday alleged that the Trinamool Congress-led alliance bagged majority of the Lok Sabha seats from the state by distributing money among voters. "I am hearing from everyone that money bags have worked," LF chairman and Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) state secretary Biman Bose told newspersons here.

May 18th, 2009 KOLKATA - A triumphant Trinamool Congress Monday passed a resolution informing President Pratibha Patil of its support to a Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the centre and said their backing was unconditional. The resolution was passed at a meeting of the Trinamool parliamentary party in which all the 19 newly elected Lok Sabha MPs, including its chief Mamata Banerjee, were present.

May 18th, 2009 KOLKATA - After handing West Bengal's ruling Left an electoral drubbing, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Monday demanded the resignation of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, saying it was democratic ethics to respect and accept the people's verdict. 'The Left is left out from the people.

May 17th, 2009 KOLKATA - Amid the euphoria over the Trinamool Congress-Congress alliance mauling West Bengal's ruling Left Front in the general elections, one victorious Congress candidate has struck a discordant note. A day after her victory from Raiganj in North Dinajpur district, Deepa Dasmunsi Sunday alleged a section of Trinamool workers in her constituency had campaigned for an independent candidate.

May 17th, 2009 KOLKATA - After the electoral drubbing to the ruling Left front in West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress Sunday reiterated that it wants early assembly elections held in the state. It also said it was confident that the Congress would have the party 'on board' in the new United Progressive Alliance government.

May 16th, 2009 KOLKATA - Jubilant Trinamool Congress supporters waved the victory sign and celebrated in the West Bengal capital Saturday after the party along with its ally the Congress established a clear lead in the Left-ruled state as voting trends indicated. The Trinamool was leading in 13 constituencies while alliance partner Congress was ahead in five out of the 32 seats for which trends were available.

May 7th, 2009 KOLKATA - Polling began Wednesday morning for 11 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal in the final phase of the general elections, which will decide the fate of Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee. After the first two rounds of polling in the state April 30 and May 7, the voting now covers Kolkata and its two adjoining districts of South 24 Parganas and North 24 Parganas.

May 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress spokesperson Veerappa Moily Wednesday said his party will not form any alliance that will upset its poll partner Trinamool Congress in West Bengal. 'We won't do anything which will upset the Trinamool,' Moily told reporters here.

March 18th, 2009 KOLKATA - Activists of Trinamool Congress and Congress party organised a yagna here for the success of the alliance of these two parties in the ensuing elections to the Lok Sabha. This was consequent to the finalisation of the tie-up and sharing of seats between the two parties in West Bengal.

March 13th, 2009 KOLKATA - Happy over the seat adjustment with the Congress Party in West Bengal for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls, Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee today took the poll fervor one step ahead by appealing to all regional parties across the country to forsake the CPI (M) and not join the purported Third Front. Banerjee said the CPI (M) had a 32-year history of misrule and bloodshed in West Bengal and all those regional parties and friends of friends who had supported the movement of the farmers in Nandigram should take cognizance of this fact before joining hands with the Left Front.

February 11th, 2009 KOLKATA - The Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) here Thursday warned its alliance partner Trinamool Congress against linking up with the Congress for the coming Lok Sabha polls. The SUCI warned the Trinamool Congress not to step into the trap laid by the Congress by withdrawing its candidate for the coming state assembly by-poll in the West Bishnupur constituency.

January 19th, 2009 KOLKATA - The Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) Tuesday declared that it would withdraw support from West Bengal's main opposition Trinamool Congress if the party tied up with the Congress in the coming Lok Sabha poll. 'We'll withdraw our support from Trinamool Congress if they form any political alliance with the Congress in the coming Lok Sabha election,' SUCI state secretary Prabhas Ghosh told a press conference here.

January 19th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal's main opposition Trinamool Congress' bid to forge an electoral tie-up with the Congress for the coming Lok Sabha polls has hit a roadblock after an alliance partner threatened to snap ties if the Trinamool went ahead. 'We'll break ties with the Trinamool if it forms any political alliance with the Congress in the coming election,' Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) state secretary Prabhas Ghosh told a press conference here.