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M.A. Baby, wide caput of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), said connected Friday (February 13) that erstwhile Congress “realises” the value of holding hands with secular, democratic, and progressive forces, they cooperate with them.
He added that this was not imaginable successful West Bengal owed to the “sectarian approach” Congress was allegedly adopting here.
“In the combat against communal forces, particularly the BJP, we privation to make governmental arrangements wherever imaginable with each forces, including Congress, successful the combat against the fascistic RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) and their governmental enactment BJP,” Mr. Baby said from the CPI(M) authorities office successful Kolkata connected Friday (February 13, 2026). He also added that they are successful practice with the Congress successful Bihar and Tamil Nadu.
This comes days after West Bengal Congress formally announced that they are going solo successful the upcoming Assembly elections. Congress had been in a seat-sharing arrangement with the Left Front, including CPI (M), in the past State Assembly elections.
“Politically we privation to isolate, expose, and decision the BJP, which is controlled by the fascistic RSS,” Mr. Baby said. He added that successful Bengal it is besides their extremity to defeat Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress government, which helium alleged is an “anti-people government”.
Mr Baby besides shared anticipation that the CPI(M) authorities volition spot a resurgence successful West Bengal successful the upcoming 2026 Assembly elections.
On February 5, Congress 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 in the next few months.
Meanwhile, CPI(M) is looking to find caller confederation partners and precocious held talks with Humayun Kabir, who has precocious acceptable up Janata Unnayan Party (JUP) and is besides apt to get into talks with the Indian Secular Front of Naswad Siddique.
