Summary:
Kolkata, January 24 (PTI) The TMC hit out at Congress leader P Chidambaram on Monday for attributing the failure to forge an alliance for the Goa assembly polls to "poaching", calling his remark an attempt to give excuses for the main opposition party"s "inexplicable and damaging inability" to respond to a mature and courageous call for greater opposition unity.
The TMC leadership also asked the veteran Congress leader to look at his own party"s "inability and failure" to keep its flock together.
"Mr Chidambaram is clutching at straws to explain somehow his party"s inexplicable and damaging inability to respond to TMC"s mature and courageous call for greater opposition unity.
First, he said that there was no concrete response, he is now saying something different after he was countered.
He should stop giving such excuses," TMC national vice-president Pavan Varma told PTI.
Varma was responding to Chidambaram"s comment on Sunday that the TMC"s proposal of a pre-poll alliance for the next month"s Goa assembly elections was not considered as Congress leaders were "poached" by Mamata Banerjee"s party in the state.