Secular Democratic Alliance

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Background

Following the heavy defeats in the 2011 Legislative Assembly election and the 2014 general election, the CPI(M) welcomed ideas of the alliance even with non-communist parties. The first signs came when in the Siliguri municipal election, CPI(M) made some local understanding with INC resulting in CPI(M) leader Ashok Bhattacharya being appointed as the mayor. This success got popularity as "Siliguri Model".[6] After the success of the model, in the long run, some Congress and CPI(M) leader advocated for a Left-Congress alliance.[7] This gradually materialized into "alliance" between INC and Left Front. The precedence of the Left Front providing outside support to the UPA-I government in 2004-2008 was cited in support.Template:Fact

Given the political history of West Bengal, the materialisation of an alliance between the Congress & the CPI(M), 2 parties that have been bitter rivals of each other since the 1970s & have a history of unleashing political violence against each other's cadres, took the political circles of the state by surprise. After much dispute and secession of 2 far-left groups : SUCI(C) and CPI(ML)L, from the Left Front, both Congress and Communists formed an understanding basis of what they called "seat-sharing", strongly objecting to the use of the word "alliance".Template:Fact

In 2016, Mahajot[8][9][10] was formed on the broad agreement that some political parties proposed before the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election for fighting against the Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal and the Bharatiya Janata Party on national level. Left Front consisting of CPI(M), CPI, RSP, AIFB and DSP along with INC released their respective candidate list in several rounds after consultations and bargaining.[11][12] However, the alliance failed to gain the majority seats in the assembly elections.[13][14] Afterwards, ahead of 2019 Indian general election, the alliance between the Congress and the Left Front is off the cards as both camps could not agree on a seat-sharing formula for Lok Sabha elections, especially in the Raiganj & Murshidabad seats, where the incumbent MP was from CPI(M) but the MLAs of the constituent legislative assembly seats were mostly from the Congress.[15][16]

Subsequently, Mahajot succeeded to Sanjukta Morcha[17] in 2021 with the joining of ISF in the alliance. Despite a spirited campaign, both the Left Front and the Indian National Congress drew a blank in the election with a considerable decrease in their respective vote shares. That was the first time when, the West Bengal Legislative Assembly was devoid of any MLA from Left Front or Congress.[18] Afterwards, ahead of 2024 Indian general election, ISF decided to contest alone in the Lok Sabha polls due to some differences in seat sharing and marks the end of alliance with Left and Congress.[19] Thereafter, Sanjukta Morcha succeeded to LF-INC Alliance[20] or Secular Democratic Alliance. On 29 March 2024 hill-based Indian Gorkha Janshakti Front president Ajoy Edwards joined hands with the alliance to take on both the BJP and the TMC in Darjeeling Lok Sabha polls.[21] The alliance won only 1 seat (Maldaha Dakshin) out of the 42 it contested.

Members

Party Flag Symbol Political position Ideology Leader(s)
CPI(M) Communist Party of India (Marxist) File:CPI-M-flag.svg File:CPIM election symbol.png Left-wing to far-left Communism
Marxism–Leninism 		Mohammed Salim
INC Indian National Congress File:Indian National Congress Flag.svg File:Hand INC.svg Centre-left Template:Ublist Subhankar Sarkar
HP Indian Gorkha Janshakti Front File:Hamro Party Flag.jpg Gurkha nationalism
Gorkhaland statehood
Social democracy
Regionalism 		Ajoy Edwards
ISF Indian Secular Front File:ISF flag.svg File:Indian Election Symbol Envelope.jpg Centre-left Secularism
Social Justice
Minority rights
Dalit rights 		Abbas Siddiqui
CPI Communist Party of India File:CPI-banner.svg File:CPI symbol.svg Left-wing to far-left Communism
Marxism–Leninism 		Swapan Banerjee
CPI(M-L)L Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation File:CPIML LIBERATION FLAG.png File:Flag Logo of CPIML.png Far-left Communism
Marxism–Leninism–Maoism 		Dipankar Bhattacharya
AIFB All India Forward Bloc File:All India Forward Bloc flag.svg File:Indian Election Symbol Lion.svg Left-wing Left-wing nationalism
Socialism
Marxism
Anti-imperialism 		Naren Chatterjee
RSP Revolutionary Socialist Party File:RSP-flag.svg File:Indian Election Symbol Spade and Stoker.png Left-wing Communism
Marxism–Leninism
Revolutionary socialism 		Tapan Hor
MFB Marxist Forward Bloc File:CPIM election symbol.png Left-wing Left-wing nationalism
Socialism
Marxism
Anti-imperialism 		Ashish Chakraborty
BBC Biplobi Bangla Congress Left-wing Bengali nationalism
Socialism
Regionalism
Left-wing nationalism
Left-wing populism
RCPI Revolutionary Communist Party of India Far-left Communism
Marxism–Leninism
Anti-stalinism 		Subhash Roy
BPI Bolshevik Party of India Far-left Communism
Marxism–Leninism 		Probir Ghosh
WPI Workers Party of India Left-wing Democratic socialismScript error: No such module "Unsubst".
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ProgressivismScript error: No such module "Unsubst". 		Sibnath Sinha

Electoral history

Results of Indian general elections in West Bengal

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 Style="background-color:Template:Party color;color:white" | +/- in seats Style="background-color:Template:Party color;color:white" | +/- in vote share
2024 6,645,398 11.03 42 1 Decrease1 Decrease2.02

See also

Notes

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