Pranab calls Buddhadeb to seek Left support!

June 14, 2012 14:36

Pranab Mukherjee shares a warm relationship with Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, but the former Bengal CM has apparently told the finance minister that the Congress has to first make its candidate clear before it gets the Left's support. Mamata Banerjee likely to see red over this as it is the Congress's first overture to the Left.

The Congress and the Left were old allies before it broke the alliance and teamed up with the Trinamool Congress. In Bengal, the relationship between the Congress leadership and the Trinamool leadership has always been strained.

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