The Left Front’s campaign to win re-election in West Bengal, India’s third most populous state, has exemplified its role as a political prop and servant of the Indian bourgeoisie.

In West Bengal, where the Left Front has held power for the past 32 years, it suffered a humiliating defeat, losing 20 seats and recording an 8 percentage-point drop in its share of the popular vote.

The Left Front government represented ideas and policies that shaped Bengal politics over its thirty-four year reign. Cut to the present, then CPI(M)-led alliance finds itself fighting erosion and ...

In March, the Left Front had held a massive roadshow in south Kolkata with the candidates of five seats for the West Bengal elections. Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Sujan Chakraborty ...

The Left Front announced candidates for five out of six assembly by-elections in West Bengal on November 13, aiming to regain political influence after failing to win any seats in the 2021 elections.

"The party bosses pushed in their own people to keep Mr Bhattacharya in check," said Ashish Biswas, who has closely followed the fortunes of the Left Front in West Bengal for almost 30 years. He ...

The Left Front on Friday announced candidates for 25 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal. However, the Congress refused to acknowledge it as the final list, and said that “discussion is on from our ...

West Bengal 2021: Right is the new Left The BJP has appropriated the symbols and images of the Left in its campaign strategy to attract voters who are dissatisfied with the TMC government ...

With no MLA in the assembly it dominated for 34 years before TMC rule, the Left Front has buried the hatchet with the CPI(ML) Liberation, once a strong critic and now partner in a broader alliance ...

In the 2006 assembly elections in West Bengal, in terms of the number of legislative seats and vote share the Left Front came out far ahead of the other political parties. With a fractured opposition, ...

CPI(M)’s Sitaram Yechury said that the Trinamool Congress has to be defeated first to stop the communal bandwagon of the BJP.

West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury in New Delhi on December 24, 2020. The Congress on Thursday formally announced its alliance with the Left Front in West Bengal for the ...