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The Congress party’s determination to spell solo successful the upcoming Assembly polls successful West Bengal, volition not person immoderate interaction connected the electoral prospects of Left Front, Communist Party of India ( Marxist) State Secretary Md. Salim said connected Friday (February 6, 2026).
The CPI(M) person said that determination was ne'er immoderate ceremonial confederation with the Congress enactment but lone a spot sharing arrangement. Mr. Salim added that aft the 2021 Assembly elections determination has been nary associated programme betwixt the Congress and the CPI(M). He added that the caller State president of Congress Subhankar Sarkar has not taken immoderate presumption against the Trinamool Congress, which made the party’s stance clear.
The Congress enactment connected Thursday (February 5, 2026) announced that it volition contention independently successful each the 294 Assembly constituencies successful West Bengal, ending speculation of immoderate electoral knowing with the Left Front successful the polls owed successful adjacent fewer months. The determination by Congress came aft a meeting, wherever enactment president Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress wide caput and the party’s in-charge for West Bengal Ghulam Ahmad Mir and State Congress president Subhankar Sarkar were present.
The improvement marks a caller alignment successful West Bengal politics, wherever the CPI(M) is trying to clasp talks with Humayun Kabir who has precocious acceptable up Janata Unnayan Party (JUP) and Indian Secular Front of Naswad Siddique. A caller gathering betwixt Mr. Salim and Mr Kabir has indicated that the Left Front would beryllium looking for caller confederation partners. Mr. Siddique has besides called for an aboriginal statement connected spot sharing with CPI(M).
After 2018, the authorities successful the State has fundamentally go bipolar with the crisp emergence successful ballot stock of some the Trinamool Congress and the BJP. The determination of the Congress to spell solo besides comes arsenic a setback to the thought of each non BJP and anti-Trinamool parties coming nether 1 banner successful West Bengal.
