The Congress and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) are joining hands for the upcoming Assembly Elections in West Bengal, the ruling Trinamool Party slammed the grand old party for entering into a 'shameless alliance'.

"The Congress party in Bengal is like a watermelon - they are green from outside and red inside. They have got this alliance with CPI (M), it is a shameless alliance. We all know they have always been together like the watermelons," TMC leader Derek O'Brien said.

"In Kerala, they should not have any elections, the Congress and the CPI (M) should have a meeting in Delhi and decide who will fight how many seats each one will win, nevertheless the people of Bengal would expose this," he said.

CPI national secretary Amarjeet Kaur yesterday said there would be "no" such tie-up in the state. "As of now, we'll not have any alliance with Congress in West Bengal and there is no possibility of having a direct alliance with Congress in future too," Kaur told reporters.

The Left has been contesting from all the 294 Assemblies all through, but this time they will have to accommodate Congress, their new ally. The seat sharing discussion between the state Congress leaders and the Left Front is on and it is learnt that Congress has demanded 95 seats as against Left’s offer of 85 and both the parties are game for a bargain on this.

By Premji