This time, ‘an alliance of the heart’: Backs to the wall, Left, Congress close ranks down to grassroots in Bengal
On a hot day early this month, at Nabagram’s CPI(M) area committee office in the Jangipur Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, local party leader Sanjib Pandey went into a huddle with the Congress’s block president, Dhirendranath Yadav, and its anchal chief Sujoy Ghosh to discuss their poll strategies. Outside, the flags of both the parties fluttered in the summer wind.