ISF calls for Left-Congress unity to counter TMC-BJP ‘binary politics’

Indian Secular Front (ISF) chief and Bhangar MLA Naushad Siddique on Wednesday strongly advocated an immediate alliance of the Left Front, Congress and the ISF in West Bengal, asserting that only such a united front could effectively challenge what he described as the “binary politics” of the Trinamul Congress (TMC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

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Addressing the foundation day programme of the ISF here, Siddique said discussions with the Left Front and the Congress were already underway and stressed that the alliance should be finalised within this month. “If the Left, Congress and ISF come together, the joint binary politics of the TMC and BJP can be defeated and brought to an end,” he said.

Echoing the call for unity, Congress national working committee member Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and CPI-M central committee member Sujan Chakraborty said that all political forces outside the BJP and the TMC must unite to stop what they termed the “destructive politics” centred around religion. They alleged that both the ruling party and the BJP were indulging in polarisation through temple and mosque-related issues, to the detriment of democratic politics in the state.