Bengal Vote Trinamul baloon is fractured Industrial belts Workers repose faith in Front again

The Trinamul Congress leader Ms Mamata Banerjee is at work again. Telling untruths is her habit. She had once claimed that she possessed a doctorate degree from an American University, probably non-existent. But very soon it was proved that she had no such doctorate degree. Again after the results of this year's Lok Sabha elections were published she came out with a claim of her party being ahead of the Left Front in 155 out of 294 Assembly segments in West Bengal - a claim that was immediately disproved. Her balloon of publicity was punctured. Not only this, she made a further claims that the BJP, her party's electoral partner, too were ahead of the Left Front candidates in a few more Assembly segments which had not been taken into account. So big newspapers too did not hesitate to publish the report as told by Ms Banerjee. These newspapers even put a coat of colour on what was told to the Press by Ms Banerjee.

Whatever may be the claim of Ms Banerjee, the fact of the matter is that the Trinamul Congress candidates in the State's Lok Sabha elections, were ahead of the Left Front rivals only in 66 Assembly segments and its alliance partner, BJP could surpass the total of votes of the Front candidates only in 17 Assembly segments. Thus the two parties together were ahead of the Left Front in just 83 Assembly segments. The figure was nowhere near the 155 mark or more as claimed by the Trinamul Congress leader. After her claim had been proved false, Ms. Banerjee had been maintaining a silence over the issue.