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Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. The Left Front on Friday nominated former Sandeshkhali MLA Nirapada Sardar as the CPI(M) candidate from the Basirhat Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal, while the party's Pratik Ur Rahaman will take on TMC's Abhishek Banerjee in Diamond Harbour. India News | LF Names Candidates for Basirhat, Diamond Harbour, 3 More Seats; Ex-Sandeshkhali MLA Gets Ticket.

The party that claims to represent Muslim, Dalit interests, and has been building base in Bengal, says will contest all 42 seats. It had been in talks with Left for 14 seats; ISF face Naushad Siddiqui also says will not take on TMC No. 2 Abhishek Banerjee himself.

ISF chief Naushad Siddiqui has gone silent over his last year's proposal that he would contest from Diamond Harbour, even as CPI(M) waits

Elections are not a particularly happy occurrence for the people of Cooch Behar district in north Bengal. Having suffered large-scale violence before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the 2021 Assembly elections and the 2023 Panchayat elections, there is an air of foreboding among voters here ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

There was, however, something amiss about this particular one: The usually alert Sezhiyan was probably unaware that TN CM M Karunanidhi had given his concurrence to the agreement more than a month ago. In fact, the DMK leader was perhaps the only person barring the PM and “one or two senior Cabinet ministers” who may have known the contours of the agreement that was in the works.