The CPI state leadership on Sunday said that they are willing to enter into a seat-sharing understanding with the Congress in the state for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Speaking to reporters, CPI state secretary Swapan Banerjee, however, clarified that having agreeing to seat-sharing does not mean there would be an electoral alliance with the Congress.
“In 2016 Assembly polls, the CPM forced us to enter into an unofficial electoral understanding with the Congress. This was done against our wishes. We don’t want to forge an alliance with the Congress but we are ready to enter into seat-sharing agreement with them. Our party is doing the same in Telangana and this can be replicated in West Bengal as well,” Banerjee said at a press conference.