With 62% strike rate, Left says ‘If only MGB gave us more seats’

Patna, Nov 10 : While the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation believes that along with CPI and CPI-M, it has brought about a re-emergence of Left politics in Bihar as per Assembly polls result trends, it claims that the Mahagathbandhan could have fared better had the Left parties been allotted more seats.
“Though I believe that the current numbers will change and the Mahagathbandhan will eventually form the government in Bihar, its performance could have been far better if more seats were allocated to the Left parties. We will sit and work on the numbers later,” CPI-ML General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya told IANS.
The Left parties contested 29 seats in the Bihar Assembly polls. So far, they are collectively ahead in 18 seats. That is a strike rate of above 62 per cent.
The elections have seen a re-emergence of the Left, if trends are anything to go by, he said.
According to Bhattacharya, it will have a bearing on not just other states, but also at the national level.
The CPI-ML is leading in an impressive 12 seats while the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India are leading in 3 seats each. To put things into perspective, the CPI-ML got only 3 seats in the 2015 Bihar Assembly elections, while the other 2 Left parties drew a blank.