Good polling trend builds momentum for Bengal: Congress
April 13th, 2011 - 9:22 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, April 13 (IANS) The Congress said Wednesday that the trends in polling for assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry were encouraging for the party and will create a positive momentum for the upcoming West Bengal polls.
Party spokesman Manish Tewari said that the “trends were good for the party” and morale of the party workers was high.
“It will build a momentum which will have an impact in West Bengal also,” he said.
Referring to reports of high voter turnout in Kerala, he said it was indicator of the anti-incumbency factor against the state’s Left Democratic Front government.
Asked if the same principle applied in Assam, which went into two-phased election earlier this month and recorded about 76 percent polling, Tewari said the situation in the two states was different.
He said Kerala had seen a cycle of alternative governments of the LDF and the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF), while in Assam, the Congress has been in power for the last 10 years.
“In Assam, one thing that came out in the campaigning is a weak and decimated opposition,” he said.
Efforts of the government to bring separatists into the mainstream may have also contributed to the high turnout, he added.
The Congress is fighting the assembly polls in Tamil Nadu in alliance with the ruling DMK.
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