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Trinamool-Congress used money power: Left Front

West Bengal's ruling Left Front alleged that the Trinamool Congress-led alliance bagged majority of the Lok Sabha seats from the state by distributing money among voters.

Updated on: May 30, 2009 11:14 PM IST
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West Bengal's ruling Left Front on Saturday alleged that the Trinamool Congress-led alliance bagged majority of the Lok Sabha seats from the state by distributing money among voters.

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"I am hearing from everyone that money bags have worked," LF chairman and Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) state secretary Biman Bose told newspersons in Kolkata.

"They distributed money among the voters," he said.

The Trinamool, in alliance with the Congress and the Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI), won 26 of the 42 seats in the state, handing the LF its worst drubbing in 32 years.

 
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