The Indian National Congress have formally approved an alliance with the left parties of West Bengal. Both the parties to participate as an alliance in the upcoming Bengal elections. West Bengal Congress party chief said “CPI(M) Central Committee had decided that the party and the Left Front will have an electoral understanding with Congress in the West Bengal polls.”
Today the Congress High command has formally approved the electoral alliance with the #Left parties in the impending election of West Bengal.@INCIndia@INCWestBengal
— Adhir Chowdhury (@adhirrcinc) December 24, 2020
The state to go into polls in March-April 2021. Back in the 2016 elections, the central committee of the CPI(M) rejected the West Bengal unit’s decision to have a tactical seat-sharing understanding with the Congress.