At mega rally, Left leaders call for Janhit Sarkar in Bengal

The Left Front, in alliance with the Congress and newly formed Indian Secular Front, on Sunday projected itself as the “third alternative force” in West Bengal and called for the need of a people’s welfare government, reported PTI. Elections will be held in the state in eight phases from March 27 to April 29, and the results will be announced on May 2.

“Our call is we want a janhit sarkar [people’s welfare government] in Bengal for its overall development and protection of rights of the masses,” Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury said at a rally in Kolkata.

Yechury said that the Trinamool Congress has to be defeated first to stop the communal bandwagon of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-Bharatiya Janata Party. He claimed that the Trinamool Congress might rejoin the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance to form the government in the state in case of a hung Assembly.