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Abbas Siddiqui, an influential cleric of Hooghly’s Furfura Sharif, launches his new party Indian Secular Front.
The Indian Secular Front (ISF) of Pirzada Abbas Siddiqui, an influential cleric of Furfura Sharif Dargah in West Bengal's Hooghly, has joined the Congress-Left alliance for the upcoming Assembly polls in the eastern state. The announcement was made by Bengal Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and Left Front Chairman Biman Bose on Tuesday at a joint press conference in Kolkata.
"In the upcoming 2021 assembly elections, we will fight as an alliance of the Left Front, Congress and the Indian Secular Front," Chowdhury said. Not just the ISF, he said, the RJD and several other smaller parties will also be accommodated in the alliance.