With the results clearly indicating a landslide victory for the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress in West Bengal the pertinent question that arises is whether the Left and the Congress will continue to be allies or not. Well, it was never a secret that the Left had joined hands with the Congress in West Bengal because they were apprehensive about their victory and their fears were proved correct. If we see, then the ideological difference between the two parties is not a hard thing to etch. Political history tells us that the two parties are dead against each other. In South India, they are dead against each other. Is this the reason why the people in West Bengal could not bestow faith upon the compromised friendship? Or was it the Mamata magic that created an illusion even this time? However, it is important to mention that the Left and Congress ally did have an impact in some of the Trinamool bastions. In Kolkata, the Jadavpur constituency had always been filled with Left sy...