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In the run-up to the civic polls, the Congress party suffered a major blow on Tuesday when former mayor of Kolkata and working president of West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee, Subrata Mukherjee, formally announced his exit from the party to rejoin the Trinamool Congress.Mukherjee, who had quit the Trinamool Congress in 2005, said that he was returning to the party as he didn't find the Congress "serious about fighting the CPM"."I have also realised that the Congress would not be able to pursue anti-CPM stand in our state, the reasons of which are still unknown to me," said Mukherjee, adding that he tried his best to make the electoral alliance between the Congress and the Trinamool work in the civic polls.This is the first desertion of a key Congress leader in Bengal to Trinamool after seat-adjustment for the Kolkata Municipal Corporation polls floundered on the Trinamool's offer of 25 of the 141 wards. Congress later announced a list of 88 party candidates following a green signal from the high command."I tried my best to unite the two parties to fight the CPM. But the electoral alliance, which created a miracle during the 2009 parliamentary polls, could not be continued due to the rigid stand taken by the Congress leadership," said Mukherjee.Mukherjee also ruled out the possibilities of him becoming the city's mayor for the second time if Trinamool wins a majority in the KMC polls. "I am not contesting the KMC elections on a Trinamool Congress ticket. Naturally, the question of my becoming the mayor does not arise at all. I will campaign for the Trinamool during the civic polls," he added.On Monday night, Mukherjee had held a closed-door meeting with Mamata Banerjee giving rise to speculations that he would quit the Congress.But the other PCC working president, Pradip Bhattacharjee, said he had no clue of Mukherjee's plan to quit the party. "He (Mukherjee) was the working president of our party and responsible for selection of our candidates for the civic elections. We have accepted many of his suggestions regarding the choice of our candidates. Still, he left our party," Bhattacharjee told The Indian Express.A key leader in the Bengal Congress, Mukherjee's crossover to Trinamool can trigger fresh animosity between the two parties which have already decided to chart their separate ways in the KMC election, party insiders said. Also the state president of the INTUC, Mukherjee's quitting the Congress came after two key Congress leaders Somen Mitra and Sudip Bandyopadhyay left the party and joined the Trinamool before the Lok Sabha elections in 2009. They are Lok Sabha members of Trinamool Congress now.
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