By IANS,
Kolkata : Communist Party of India (CPI) general secretary A.B. Bardhan Friday said the Left Front will win more than 150 seats in the election for the 294-member West Bengal assembly.
“The gap which we (the Left Front) had in the Panchayet (rural governing bodies) elections and Lok Sabha polls earlier has narrowed down. We will cross 150 seats in the coming assembly elections. The Left Front is poised to come back to power as the eighth Left Front government,” Bardhan told a press conference here.
In the 2009 Lok Sabha polls, the Trinamool Congress-Congress alliance won 26 of the total 42 parliamentary seats in the state.
“We have learnt from the past. I am sure it will be a better Left Front. Rather than change, more and more people are saying about the return of the Left Front,” he said.
When asked about some pre-poll surveys that predict less than 100 assembly seats for the Left Front and that the Trinamool Congress-Congress alliance will clinch about 200 seats, Bardhan said, “I do not believe in this statistics. These are all paid news. No neutral agency conducted the survey. Anti-Left forces are carrying out these surveys. These are not scientifically true.”
Asked whether a wave of change was blowing across West Bengal, the CPI leader said, “What exactly is the change the Trinamool Congress will bring? Have they worked out any programme?”
“There is no point to think that Mamata Banerjee will be the next chief minister. I think she will be a disaster as chief minister,” he stated.
The six-phase West Bengal elections will be held between April 18-May 10