New Delhi, Sep 26 (IANS) Once a potent force in Bihar, mobilising landless labourers, small farmers, and marginalised communities, the Left parties have seen their influence erode dramatically over the past few decades.

Thus, they heaved a sigh of relief when in Assembly elections 2020, contesting in alliance with the Opposition platform of Mahagthbandhan (MGB) or Grand Alliance, the Left parties together succeeded in winning 16 of the 29 seats allotted to it.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist Leninist) Liberation General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya emerged as the face leading the resurgence with his party grabbing 12 of the 19 constituencies it contested.

The Communist Party of India, and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) managed to win two each out of six and four seats,

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