The Left and Secular Alliance was a pre-poll alliance of political parties in the

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

n state of

Manipur Manipur () ( mni, Kangleipak) is a state in Northeast India, with the city of Imphal as its capital. It is bounded by the Indian states of Nagaland to the north, Mizoram to the south and Assam to the west. It also borders two regions of Myanm ...

. The alliance was formed ahead of the

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by ten political parties as an alternative to the

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...

(BJP) and the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

(INC).

Background

The alliance supported the candidature of Moirangthem Nara Singh of CPI in the Inner Manipur seat.''The Telegraph''
Manipur alliance to lodge ‘rigging’ complaint
28 April 2014. Following voting in the 2014 election, the alliance consisted of the

Communist Party of India Communist Party of India (CPI) is the oldest Marxist–Leninist communist party in India and one of the nine national parties in the country. The CPI was founded in modern-day Kanpur (formerly known as Cawnpore) on 26 December 1925. H ...

(CPI), the

Communist Party of India (Marxist) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)/CPIM/CPM) is a Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist communist List of political parties in India, political party in India. It is the largest communist party of India in term ...

(CPI(M)), the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), the

All India Forward Bloc The All India Forward Bloc ( AIFB) is a left-wing nationalist political party in India. It emerged as a faction within the Indian National Congress in 1939, led by Subhas Chandra Bose. The party re-established as an independent political party a ...

(AIFB), the

Janata Dal (Secular) The Janata Dal (Secular) is an Indian political party led by former prime minister of India, H. D. Deve Gowda. The party is recognized as a State Party in the states of Karnataka, Kerala and Arunachal Pradesh. It was formed in July 1999 by the ...

(JD(S)), the

Shiv Sena Shiv Sena ( IAST: ''Śiva Sēnā'') () was a right-wing to far-right Marathi regionalist and Hindu ultranationalist political party in India founded in 1966 by cartoonist Bal Thackeray. Originally emerging from nativist movements in Bom ...

(SS), the

People's Democratic Alliance People's, branded as ''People's Viennaline'' until May 2018, and legally ''Altenrhein Luftfahrt GmbH'', is an Austrian airline headquartered in Vienna. It operates scheduled and charter passenger flights mainly from its base at St. Gallen-Altenr ...

(PDA) and the

Bahujan Samaj Party The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is a national level political party in India that was formed to represent Bahujans (literally means "community in majority"), referring to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes (OBC), alon ...

(BSP). Shantakumar Khetrimayum of CPI(M) is the convenor of the alliance. In the Outer Manipur seat the

Janata Dal (United) Janata Dal (United) ("People’s Party (United)”) abbreviated as JD(U) is an Indian political party with political presence mainly in eastern and north-eastern India. JD(U) is recognised as a state party in the states of Bihar , Arunachal Pra ...

(JD(U)), which formed part of the alliance, had wished to get support for its candidate Lien Gangte. However, seven of the constituents of the alliance decided to support the

Nationalist Congress Party The Nationalist Congress Party ( NCP) is one of the nine national parties in India. The party generally supports Indian nationalism and Gandhian secularism. It is the largest opposition party in Maharashtra and is also a significant party in ...

(NCP) nominee

Chungkhokai Doungel Chungkhokai Doungel (1940/1941 – 21 May 2023) was an Indian politician. Doungel was a prominent Kuki leader, and served as Minister in different coalition governments in the state of Manipur.''The Telegraph''. 7-party alliance backs NCP' Doun ...

. This decision was however done individually by each party, not by the alliance as such. Likewise the NCP declared that it would support the candidature of Nara Singh in Inner Manipur. Moving away from the Left and Secular Alliance, JD(U) declared support to the

All India Trinamool Congress The All India Trinamool Congress (English: All India Grassroots Congress; AITC), colloquially the Trinamool Congress ( TMC) is an Indian political party which is predominantly active in West Bengal. The party is led by Mamata Banerjee, the cur ...

candidate Sarangthem Manaobi in Inner Manipur.''The Hindu''
Fragmentation of LSA in Manipur enthuses BJP, Congress
26 March 2014. Following the vote in Inner Manipur the alliance complained of large-scale rigging in favour of the Congress candidate. Nara Singh, speaking on behalf of the alliance, questioned that polling figures as high as 90% had been reported from 112 voting stations.''The Northeast Today''
Left and Secular Alliance to Election Commission
. 9 May 2014. The alliancer sent a delegation to

Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders w ...

to lodge their complaint.''Hueiyen Lanpao''.
LSA team in Delhi to prevail upon ECI for action against Cong
' The BJP took part in the delegation.

Constituent parties

(CPI) *

(CPI(M)) *

Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) is a communist party in India. The party was founded on 19 March 1940 by Tridib Chaudhuri and has its roots in the Bengali liberation movement Anushilan Samiti and the Hindustan Socialist Republican Ar ...

(RSP) *

(AIFB) * People's Democratic Alliance (PDA) *

(NCP) *

(JD(S)) *

(JD(U)) *

(BSP)

References

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Background

Constituent parties

See also

References