IT'S OFFICIAL - the Left Front, once considered a political alliance that will rule West Bengal for a hundred years, has been decimated in the state assembly elections by the rampaging Trinamool Congress. With the latest results indicating the Trinamool Congress leading in more than 220 seats out of 294 assembly seats, Mamata Bannerjee looks all set to occupy the seat of the chief minister in Kolkata - replacing Buddadeb Bhattacharjee. With this massive loss the Left in Bengal is in tatters. It lost heavily in the Lok Sabha polls, then it lost municipal elections, and now the Left alliance has been routed in assembly elections.
The Left Front headed by Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) supported by junior partner CPI has ruled West Bengal since 1977. The Left has already conceded defeat saying that the Left Front will continue to "remain in the battlefield".
Chief minister Buddadeb Bhattacharjee himself is trailing from Jadavpur from where he was contesting the assembly elections.
The Trinamool Congress and Congress, which at last count, was leading in 220 seats out of 294 seats has left the Left far behind with Left parties trailing at 65 seats, with eight seats with 'other' parties.
The extent of Left's defeat can be gauged by the fact that the Trinamool Congress has comprehensively won in north Bengal and districts like Burdwan, which are considered Left strongholds.
Already excited about the overwhelming victory, the Trinamool Congress is taking snipes at the Left. The chief whip of Trinamool Congress Sudip Bandopadhyay said that TMC is wondering more about why it did not even win the seats that the Left did!
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