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Kolkata, Mar 15 (PTI) The West Bengal CPI(M) on Tuesday said that the party will take on the Trinamool Congress and the BJP in West Bengal and will strive to bring together like-minded forces for the purpose.
Claiming that democracy is under attack in the state, CPI(M) state secretary Surjya Kanta Mishra said on the inaugural day of the three-day 26th state conference of the party that the fight against both TMC and BJP is a general policy of the party irrespective of elections.
"The ruling dispensation is unable to tackle the RSS-BJP ideologically," Mishra told a press conference at Pramod Dasgupta Bhavan here, where the conference was inaugurated by party general secretary Sitaram Yechury.
He said that the CPI(M) will strive to bring together anti-Trinamool and anti-BJP forces in West Bengal.
"We will take on these two parties ourselves with like-minded forces where we have the strength and in other places will provide support to those who are fighting against them with a legitimate demand," he said.
While alleging that free and fair elections in various levels, including the recently held municipal polls, have ceased to exist under the TMC rule, Mishra admitted that support of people for CPI(M) has decreased over the years.