The West Bengal Congress today rejected the appeal by nonagenarian CPI (M) leader Jyoti Basu to Congress supporters to vote for the Left in the upcoming by-elections to ten assembly seats in the state on the 7th of this month.<br/><br/>Describing it is an absurd and unacceptable proposal; PCC working president Pradip Bhattacharya told that this is a clever ploy on the part of the CPI (M) leadership to divide the Congress-Trinamool Congress alliance votes. <br/><br/>In a surprise development, Basu onSunday appealed to Congress voters for support to Leftists accusing the Trinamool Congress of unleashing violence together with the Maoists.<br/><br/>This is the first time that the CPI (M) had directly appealed to Congress supporters to vote for the Left.