Claiming that the country will be divided if BJP leader Narendra Modi comes to power, CPI(M) Politburo member Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today said Modi is a candidate who has been pushed forward only by industrialists.

"If Modi comes to power then our country will be divided and it will be a danger for us. Modi is not being pushed forward by farmers and poor people of Gujarat. He is being pushed forward by big industrialists of the country," he said.

"It is a dangerous trend that industrialists are pitching in for Modi," the former West Bengal Chief Minister said while addressing rally here. Bhattacharjee today reiterated that both the Trinamool Congress and the BJP have entered into a covert alliance.

"We know that BJP and Trinamool are in a covert alliance. This is not a new claim. Earlier also we have seen them as allies," he said.