IN THE LEFT LANE
On August 5, Debesh Das, a minister in the erstwhile Left Front government in West Bengal, received an unexpected phone call. On the line was a member of Prashant Kishor’s Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC), the organisation tasked by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) with ensuring its victory in the assembly election scheduled early next year. “They began by praising my work in Entally constituency before getting to the point of the phone call that ‘PK’ would like to meet me. I politely requested them not to disturb me,” says the CPI(M) leader.
Lakshmi Kanta Roy, a former two-term CPI(M) legislator from Dhupguri in Cooch Behar also received feelers from I-PAC recently. The caller, says Roy,
