WBPCC complains to Rahul Gandhi about Trinamool Congress attacks

KOLKATA: A Congress delegation from West Bengal met the party general secretary Rahul Gandhi and other senior party leaders in Delhi on Monday and sought their intervention to stop Trinamool attacks on partymen in different pockets of the state.

The discomfort between the Trinamool Congress and the Congress in the state started surfacing after the Assembly polls this year. In fact, Congress workers in many districts have complained about Trinamool attacks to top leaders.

West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee ( WBPCC) vice-president Debabrata Bose told ET over telephone from Delhi that they have submitted a memorandum to the party's national leadership requesting them to take up the issue with Trinamool Congress.

"Rahulji is fully aware of the political development in West Bengal and the relation between the two parties. We have told him that we are being compelled to raise the issue of our relationship with the Trinamool Congress as the bigger partner is constantly attempting to thwart our move to strengthen the Congress in West Bengal," said Bose.

"Chhatra Parishad leaders told us that they are being forced not to file nominations for contesting several students' union elections in under-graduate colleges and we have conveyed this to Rahulji," he added. The state Congress leaders also met AICC general secretary in charge of West Bengal affairs, Shakeel Ahmed, and briefed him about the issue.

However, WBPCC chief and Congress Rajya Sabha member from the state, Pradip Bhattacharya, was not part of the party delegation. The delegation also urged Rahul to visit the state again to boost the morale of the party's youth wing.