Gandhi's birthday celebrations bring together Cong, Left
The sesquicentinnial of Mahatma Gandhi has brought together Congress and Left Front on the same platform in West Bengal in their fight against the "communal" BJP and the "undemocratic" TMC.
To commemorate the150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, the Congress has organized an art exhibition named 'Bapu in Bengal', where several pictures and articles on the Father of the Nation during his visit to Bengal are displayed.
The CPI(M)-led Left Front was also invited at the art exhibition and senior Left parties' leaders, including LF chairman Biman Bose, CPI(M) state secretary Surya Kanta Mishra and Forward Bloc state secretary Naren Chatterjee were present at it.
Later state Congress president Somen Mitra held an hour-long closed door meeting with the Left leaders in which the political situation in Bengal and the need for both the sides to come together to fight the rise of BJP in the state was stressded.
"We have been discussing this for a long time that Congress and ..