Thousands of Trinamul supporters reaching Calcutta on Friday for the Martyrs’ Day rally expect the leadership to come up with clear directions about the party’s equation with the Congress and the Left Front following the formation of an Opposition alliance in Bangalore to take on the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

With both the Congress and the Left parts of the INDIA alliance, which also includes Trinamul, confusion has emerged among workers of Bengal’s ruling party about their relationship with the two rivals.

The CPM — the largest constituent of the Left Front — had already clarified that its fight against Mamata Banerjee’s party would continue in the coming days irrespective of whatever was decided at the national level. State Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who is known for his strong views against the Bengal chief minister, has not spoken since the Bangalore meeting concluded on July 18 but leaders close to him said he was unlikely to change his position.

“It is not just that Congress and CPM supporters are vehemently against the alliance with us. Even our workers do not want to join hands with them. Especially, the CPM can never be our partner; we have grown up opposing them,” a senior Trinamul leader in North 24-Parganas said.

“We hope this confusion will be clarified by Didi or Abhishek (Banerjee) at the meeting tomorrow (Friday). It is the last July 21 event before the big battle of parliamentary polls next year. Our line will be announced from the stage,” the leader said and added that combating the CPM had been the fulcrum of Trinamul’s ascension to power in Bengal.

The Singur and Nandigram agitations spearheaded by Mamata against the erstwhile Left Front government had catapulted her to the chief minister’s office in 2011.

The Congress was Trinamul’s partner in 2011 but the alliance was short-lived. It is evident that Trinamul is finding it difficult to convince its cadres to coordinate with the CPM and the Congress.

The recent panchayat polls saw the death of over 60 people and at least half of them belonged to Trinamul. The party has mostly accused the Opposition, including the Congress and the CPM, of murdering its cadres.

Humayun Kabir, the Trinamul MLA of Bharatpur in Murshidabad, told this newspaper that several workers had asked him if they would have to work with Chowdhury.

“Six of seven Assembly seats in the Behrampore Lok Sabha constituency are with Trinamul. Twenty of 22 Assembly seats in Murshidabad are also ours. We have performed exceptionally well in the panchayat polls. My workers are asking if we will have to campaign for Adhir Chowdhury in the next polls. If I get a chance, I will place this question before our leaders.”

Murshidabad is the home district of Chowdhury, who represents the Behrampore Lok Sabha seat.

Kabir suggested as long as the Congress was in alliance with the CPM in Bengal, Trinamul must refrain from working with the grand old party.