Alipurduar May 16: The Left Front allies have decided to put up a united fight for control of the Alipurduar Municipality, elections to which are due in June.

At the district committee meeting of the Left Front held in the RSP’s party office today, the leaders of the CPM, RSP and Forward Bloc announced that they would contest the elections together, hinting that they were ready to put behind them differences and squabbles that marred the panchayat polls..

With the allies snarling at each other on every small issue in the run-up to the rural elections and the parties fielding candidates independently in some of the centres, it was widely believed that there would be no Front alliance for the civic polls either.

Today’s meeting was attended by CPM Jalpaiguri district committee member Jiban Dutta, Rabin Dasgupta, also a CPM Jalpaiguri district committee member, local MLA and RSP district committee member Nirmal Das and Forward Bloc Jalpaiguri district committee chairman Sachin Ganguly.

In the last municipal elections, out of 20 seats, the Congress-BJP-Trinamul mahajot won 12 and the rest went to the Front. “At the meeting, it was decided that the Left Front alliance stands in the coming municipal elections. This means that in every constituency, there will be a single candidate fielded by the Front. We are yet to decide on the seat-sharing. In the last Alipurduar municipal elections, the CPM contested in 10 seats, RSP in eight and Forward Bloc in two seats,” said Dasgupta.

There was only a smile on his face when asked about the allegations levelled at the CPM by the RSP and Bloc during the panchayat elections.

“We will definitely wrest control from them in this municipal election because the right parties had united just for election purposes. Last time, we contested in two seats and won both and so this time we have a demand for another seat,” said Ganguly. He evaded questions about how the Front had sorted out their differences in such short a time, stating it was a “political secret”.

Das also expressed satisfaction that the allies were fighting on a united platform. “The distribution of seats is not the factor, it is that we will contest on behalf of the Left Front,” said the RSP legislator.

The CPM and the Bloc have demanded one more seat each which would be decided on tomorrow, said the RSP leader.

It was only on Wednesday that Das had spewed venom on the CPM, accusing it of deliberately defeating the RSP in Kalchini by supporting the Congress.