Draft:Left and Democratic Front (India)

Left and Democratic Front is an proposed alliance of left, secular, democratic parties in the states of India for the 2024 Indian general election. The purpose of this alliance is to isolate and to defeat Bharatiya Janata Party, the rulling party of India. General Secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist) and former Rajya Sabha MP Sitaram Yechury said that the alliance in each state will be specific for that state based on the political scenario and national level political front will take shape after the general election. On 2 February 2023, CPIM Polit Bureau member and Chief Minister of Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan confirmed about CPIM's plan of forming state-level alliances.

Background
The term 'Left and Democratic Front' was used in the draft political resolution of CPI(M) for the 23rd Party Congress which was published on 4 February 2022.

Members
Sitaram Yechury clarified that his party will ally with Rashtriya Janata Dal in Bihar and Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh. Bharat Rashtra Samithi president and Chief Minister of Telangana K. Chandrashekar Rao expressed his intention to work with CPI(M) and CPI in building up an alternative to the BJP. At the national level, five political parties including Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Revolutionary Socialist Party, Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation and All India Forward Bloc have given joint calls for action and struggles on various issues and experessed their positions of fighting together.