BJP, Congress & CPM join hands to keep TMC at bay in panchayats

Burying their ideological differences, winners from BJP, CPM and Congress joined hands to form boards in at least three gram panchayats in West Bengal in order to keep Trinamool Congress at bay. BJP and CPM formed the gram panchayat board jointly at Mahishadal in East Midnapore district on Wednesday. BJP and TMC had bagged eight seats each out of 18, while CPM had won two. BJP's Subhra Panda and CPM's Paresh Panigrahi were elected pradhan and upa-pradhan, respectively.

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