Mamata claims majority, Cong-CPI(M) alliance claim it will win 200 seats

Kolkata, Apr 25: With two more phases to go before the six-phase Assembly election in West Bengal ends, TMC chairperson Mamata Banerjee today claimed that her party had reached the majority mark, while CPI-M state secretary Surjya Kanta Mishra made a claim that the CPI(M)-Congress alliance would win 200 seats. "Today the fourth phase of polls was held.

If I understand politics, after this phase of polls we have already attained the majority mark needed to form the new government. You can check it when the results are announced," Banerjee told an election meeting here.

The TMC chief claimed that her government in the last five years had undertaken various development projects and turned Bengal into the favourite industrial destination.

Expressing confidence about the success of the (Congress-Left) alliance in the election, Mishra claimed, "After the first three phases of polling we said we will surely win in over 100 seats but after today's polls we aim for 200...seats.

And the alliance of the people is heading towards that." Echoing her party supremo, TMC leader Mukul Roy also claimed that Trinamool has reached majority figure after today's polling. West Bengal State Congress president Adhir Chowdhury on the other hand claimed that the Trinamool Congress would cease to exist after the results were announced on May 19.

Chowdhury said people had been able to resist the terror tactics of the TMC. "The TMC has engaged its entire machinery to stop people from exercising their democratic rights. In many places TMC have captured booths. But people have resisted those terror tactics in most of the places and have voted," Chowdhury told PTI.

Elections were held in 216 seats till today. Polling for the remaining 78 seats in two more phases is scheduled to take place on April 30 and May 5.

PTI