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Poll announcement puts Cong in difficulty
KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 3/1/2021 10:16:31 AM
NEW DELHI, Feb 27: The Congress is caught in its web from the Election Commission on Friday announcing the Assembly dates in four states and the Union Territory of Puducherry since it has not yet firmed up the division of the seats despite entering into the alliance deals early this month.
Except for constituting various committees for the elections, the Congress has not identified the seats in any state on which it wants to contest as part of the alliances. A senior party leader said the Congress has repeated the same old mistake of delaying the seat distribution with the allies that should have been completed by the first week of Congress.
What to say of the seat division, the Congress has not yet started talks with the allies it identified to take on the Bhartiya Janata Party in these elections, the party leader said. He said the Congress will have to decide the seats and finalise the candidates in a haste.
He said the Congress has not yet held any discussions with the parties with which it wants to go to the polls on the poll issues and the minimum joint programme. He said the party leadership always declare before an election to announce the party's manifesto and candidates at least two months before the polls, but it keeps the prospective candidates in suspense by never doing so and thus not helping them start nursing the constituencies early.