<p>New Delhi: The CPI(M)-led Left Front in West Bengal on Thursday announced candidates for 16 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats even as the talks with the Congress are progressing over seat sharing in the state.</p><p>Left Front chairman Biman Bose said 14 of the 16 candidates announced by them new faces and youth. The Left Front has fielded young faces Saira Shah Halim from Kolkata South, Sujan Chakraborty from Dum Dum, Srijan Bhattacharya from Jadavpur, Dipsita Dhar from Serampore and Sayan Banerjee from Tamluk.</p><p>The Left Front did not win a single seat in the 2019 Lok Sabha and 2021 Assembly elections. </p>.Rift widens between Congress and Left in West Bengal. <p>With Trinamool Congress announcing candidates for all 42 seats, the Congress is left with no option but to align with the Left. CPI(M) Polit Bureau, which met in Delhi, is learnt to have given its green signal for a seat sharing arrangement with Congress.</p><p>Congress sources said Berhampur MP and Congress' Lok Sabha leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who is a known Mamata Banerjee-critic, has suggested that CPI(M) should field its Bengal Secretary Mohd Salim from Murshidabad, adjoining his seat, to maximise the votes in these areas.</p><p>Sources said the CPI, Forward Bloc and RSP will not be very happy to concede many seats to Congress as their party's national and state status will depend on the vote share they would be garnering in the Lok Sabha polls.</p>
<p>New Delhi: The CPI(M)-led Left Front in West Bengal on Thursday announced candidates for 16 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats even as the talks with the Congress are progressing over seat sharing in the state.</p><p>Left Front chairman Biman Bose said 14 of the 16 candidates announced by them new faces and youth. The Left Front has fielded young faces Saira Shah Halim from Kolkata South, Sujan Chakraborty from Dum Dum, Srijan Bhattacharya from Jadavpur, Dipsita Dhar from Serampore and Sayan Banerjee from Tamluk.</p><p>The Left Front did not win a single seat in the 2019 Lok Sabha and 2021 Assembly elections. </p>.Rift widens between Congress and Left in West Bengal. <p>With Trinamool Congress announcing candidates for all 42 seats, the Congress is left with no option but to align with the Left. CPI(M) Polit Bureau, which met in Delhi, is learnt to have given its green signal for a seat sharing arrangement with Congress.</p><p>Congress sources said Berhampur MP and Congress' Lok Sabha leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who is a known Mamata Banerjee-critic, has suggested that CPI(M) should field its Bengal Secretary Mohd Salim from Murshidabad, adjoining his seat, to maximise the votes in these areas.</p><p>Sources said the CPI, Forward Bloc and RSP will not be very happy to concede many seats to Congress as their party's national and state status will depend on the vote share they would be garnering in the Lok Sabha polls.</p>
