Agartala, Mar 30: Former Tripura chief minister and the BJP candidate for the Tripura West Lok Sabha seat Biplab Kumar Deb on Friday claimed that the veteran CPI-M leader Manik Sarkar is not willing to vote for Congress candidate Ashish Kumar Saha, who is also contesting from the same seat as a consensus nominee of the INDIA bloc.

While addressing an election rally in South Tripura, Deb said, “Manik Da is a veteran Communist leader who during his decades-long political career never voted for any non-Left party candidate. Therefore, this time too he is not willing to cast his vote for the Congress nominee.”

Deb also claimed that as a “genuine Communist”, Sarkar was not in favour of CPI-M’s alliance with the Congress, as he urged the veteran leader to vote for the BJP in the coming Lok Sabha elections.

He said that all the senior Congress and Communist leaders participated in a rally when Ashish Kumar Saha filed his nomination papers on Wednesday, but Manik Sarkar was not seen there.

“This is because he is not in favour of this unholy alliance,” he said.

The CPI-M state Secretary Jitendra Chaudhury said that the Left Front, as part of the INDIA bloc, has decided to fight the polls together with its ally partners, including the Congress, to defeat the BJP.

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