Kolkata: Objections within the CPI(M)-led Left Front in West Bengal, on Saturday, about continuing the seat-sharing arrangement with Congress for the next year’s state Assembly polls have started becoming stronger, following the disastrous results of the Mahagathbandhan (MGB), and more specially the Congress, in the recently concluded Bihar Assembly polls, the results of which were announced a day before.

“Till now, mainly the two allies of the Left Front, namely All India Forward Bloc and the Revolutionary Socialist Party, had been objecting to the continued seat-sharing arrangement with Congress for the 2026 West Bengal Assembly polls. But now, after the Bihar Assembly results, questions have also started surfacing from within CPI-M on the justification of continuing the seat-sharing a

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