Bengal BJP MP Urges Cong, Left to Join Hands with it to Defeat TMC in Rural Polls

BJP MP Saumitra Khan urged all opposition parties, including the Congress and the Left Front, to join hands with the saffron camp to defeat the Trinamool Congress in the panchayat polls due next year.

The Congress and the Left Front, however, dismissed Khan’s proposal by terming the BJP and the TMC as “two sides of the same coin”.

The ruling TMC claimed that Khan’s appeal proved that the three parties have a tacit understanding in…