WEST BENGAL-Not a Negative Vote

Not a Negative Vote Ajit Roy BY winning 230 seats out of a total of 293, for which polling has been held (election in one constituency has been countermanded due to the death of a candidate), the CPI(M)-Jed Left Front has created history. Even if the two seats secured by the CPI are left out because of the present equivocal position of that party, another five seats, four of the SUC and one of the CPI(ML), though annexed by them in Opposition to the Left Front, undoubtedly belong to the Left camp. As against the 235 Left members in the new House, the tally of the Right- wing totals only 49