Left Front

For other uses, see Left Front (disambiguation).

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DSP-meeting in Kolkata

West Bengal Left Front Committee meeting for solidarity with Tripura

LDF campaign in Cochin

Tableaux in Trivandrum

The Left Front is an alliance of Indian left-wing parties. After a 34-year reign in West Bengal, the Left Front was swept from power in the 2011 election. It governed Tripura from 1978 to 1988, and, in 1993, the Left Front returned to power there.It was in power in Kerala for more than 30 years in different time periods.

West Bengal Left Front

In West Bengal the following parties are parts of the Left Front:

• Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) forms the largest part of it.
• Communist Party of India
• Revolutionary Socialist Party
• All India Forward Bloc
• Revolutionary Communist Party of India
• Marxist Forward Bloc
• West Bengal Socialist Party now Samajwadi Party

• Democratic Socialist Party
• Biplobi Bangla Congress
• Workers Party of India

Communist Revolutionary League of India was a member of the West Bengal LF between 1995 and 2000. Workers Party of India was inducted prior to state elections in 2011.

The convenor of the West Bengal Left Front committee is Biman Bose, a politburo member of the CPI(M).

Tripura Left Front

In Tripura, the following parties are members of Left Front:

• Communist Party of India (Marxist) forms the largest part of it.
• Communist Party of India
• Revolutionary Socialist Party
• All India Forward Bloc

The convenor of the Tripura Left Front committee is Khagen Das, a central committee member of the CPI(M).

Kerala Left Democratic Front

In Kerala, a formation of left parties led by the CPI(M) called the Left Democratic Front is the opposition group in the Kerala State Assembly.

• Communist Party of India(Marxist)
• Communist Party of India
• Revolutionary Socialist Party
• Janata Dal (Secular)
• Nationalist Congress Party
• Kerala Congress (Anti-Merger Group)
• Congress (S)

References

• Leftism in India, 1917-1947 by Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, Palgrave, U.K., 2007.