Cong,Left charge TMC govt of hatching conspiracy to delay poll

The Congress and the Left Front today charged the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal of hatching a "pre-planned conspiracy" to delay the panchayat polls forcing the State Election Commission (SEC) to take legal recourse.
"A conspiracy was hatched by TMC government to delay the panchayat poll. This is their secret political agenda. It (TMC government) knows that the results of the rural poll will not satisfy them," MP and state Congress president Pradip Bhattacharya told reporters here.
Alleging that the TMC was threatening opposition party workers, he wondered if "our party candidates cannot file nominations, what the use of election is. We want a free, fair and peaceful poll".

Criticising TMC general secretary Mukul Roy who had threatened to take the bodies of TMC workers to the SEC office if they died of summer heat, Bhattacharya said, "We will also take bodies of our workers to the doorsteps of Trinamool leaders if they were killed. They should not try to browbeat us."
He pointed out that the Lok Sabha, Assembly and panchayat elections were held in summer.
Left Front chairman Biman Bose also hinted at a pre-planned conspiracy by the TMC government in delaying the panchayat election and said it decided to launch a mass agitation over the government's indifferent attitude in holding the polls," he said.

Asked whether the LF would explore legal options over the stalemate, Bose said, "We have not discussed the matter. We have come to know that the delay in holding panchayat polls is a pre-planned conspiracy by the state government," he alleged.