Judiciary Supreme Court of India Chief Justice of India High Courts District Courts Elections Political Parties Local State Govt. Other countries· PoliticsPortal Government of India Portal view•talk•edit DSP-meeting in Kolkata West Bengal Left Front Committee meeting for solidarity with Tripura The Left Front (Bengali: বাম ফ্রন্ট Bam Frônṭ) is an alliance of Indian leftist parties, shortly called LF. In West Bengal and Tripura there are state-level committees of the Left Front; Left Front governments currently rule both of these states. In West Bengal the following parties are parts of the Left Front: Communist Party of India (Marxist) 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 Democratic Socialist Party Biplobi Bangla Congress Communist Revolutionary League of India was a member of the Bengali LF between 1995 and 2000. The convenor of the West Bengal Left Front committee is Biman Bose, politburo member of the CPI(M). 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 In Kerala, a formation of left parties led by the CPI(M) called the Left Democratic Front is the governing group in the Kerala State Assembly. In Tamil Nadu, left parties formed a part of the Democratic Progressive Alliance led by the regionalist DMK from which the Left parties pulled themselves out and allied with the opposition regional party, the AIADMK. In Maharashtra, workers parties such as the Peasants and Workers Party of India, Kamgar Aghadi and Shetkari Sangh are the allies of the Left Front. The Left parties withdrew their support to the UPA government in July, 2008 because of theie opposition to India's succumbing to the US over the nuclear deal and defence framework agreement. In the 15th Lok Shabha Polls, Left parties along with other non-Congress, non-BJP regional players formed a third alternative which was not accepted by the Indian electorate. Left forces got a drubbing in Kerala and West Bengal and their total seats tally is a all time low 24 (CPI-M 16, CPI 4, RSP 2 and FB 2). Factionalism within the CPI-M and its attitude towards junior front partners like RSP and Janata Dal(S) were the main reasons behind the debacle in Kerala. In West Bengal, Left has lost because of the Congress wave and some local issues. The Left ront wanted to develop the state industrially which was blocked by the opposition.
