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Three? or two 'Horse Race' in Bengal?

New Delhi, Dec 30 (UNI) The Congress-Left tie-up for the Bengal Assembly elections next year, though made the contest a three-cornered fight, anti-Trinamool voters are likely to view BJP as "better poised" to take on Trinamool Congress.
This was observed here on Wednesday by some political experts who maintained that even as the target of the newly formed electoral pact by the grand old party and Leftists is to woo both-anti-Trinamool and anti-BJP voters, the 2019 Lok Sabha polls showed that a significant chunk of Left voters had drifted to BJP, helping it win an "unprecedented" 18 Bengal seats.
"Seems not much change in the perception of such electorate post the general elections, which may translate and transform the crucial Bengal polls into a two 'Horse Race,' " the experts opined.
The pandits also pointed out that the potency of the Congress-Left combine was also undermined by the fact
that the two parties are rivals for the Kerala Assembly polls that would be held alongside Bengal's.
" Notwithstanding precedents of polls based on local issues, absence of broader clarifications in respect of the opposite stand,-either by Congress or the Left-is belittling the weightage of the alliance ahead of Bengal, Kerala polls," the analysts commented.
The Congress-Left duo had fought the 2016 Bengal polls together and won 76 seats.
"But, that was before the Lok Sabha polls and BJP became a 'force' in Bengal," the pandits underlined.
The 294 -seat Bengal Assembly elections is scheduled to be held in April-May,2021.
Besides Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry will also go to polls during the same period.
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