The Left Front is an alliance of India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n leftist parties

Left-wing politics

In politics, Left, left-wing and leftist generally refer to support for social change to create a more egalitarian society...

. After a 34-year reign in West Bengal

West Bengal

West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...

, the Left Front was swept from power in the 2011 election

West Bengal state assembly election, 2011

The West Bengal state assembly election, 2011 was held in six phases between 18 April and 10 May 2011 for all the 294 seats of the Vidhan Sabha in the state of West Bengal in India. The Trinamool Congress won an absolute majority of seats. Swami Ramdev backed Mamta and actively campaigned with his...

. It governed Tripura

Tripura

Tripura is a state in North-East India, with an area of . It is the third smallest state of India, according to area. Tripura is surrounded by Bangladesh on the north, south, and west. The Indian states of Assam and Mizoram lie to the east. The capital is Agartala and the main languages spoken are...

 from 1978 to 1988, and, in 1993, the Left Front returned to power there.It was in power in Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

 for more than 30 years in different time periods.

West Bengal Left Front

In West Bengal

West Bengal

West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...

 the following parties are parts of the Left Front:

• Communist Party of India (Marxist)
  Communist Party of India (Marxist)
  The Communist Party of India is a political party in India. It has a strong presence in the states of Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura. As of 2011, CPI is leading the state government in Tripura. It leads the Left Front coalition of leftist parties in various states and the national parliament of...
  
   (CPI(M)) forms the largest part of it.
• Communist Party of India
  Communist Party of India
  The Communist Party of India is a national political party in India. In the Indian communist movement, there are different views on exactly when the Indian communist party was founded. The date maintained as the foundation day by CPI is 26 December 1925...
  
  
• Revolutionary Socialist Party
  Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)
  Revolutionary Socialist Party is a Marxist-Leninist political party in India. The party was founded on March 19, 1940 and has its roots in the Bengali liberation movement Anushilan Samiti and the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army. The party got around 0,4% of the votes and three seats in the Lok...
  
  
• All India Forward Bloc
  All India Forward Bloc
  The All India Forward Bloc is a leftwing 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 after the independence of India...
  
  
• Revolutionary Communist Party of India
  Revolutionary Communist Party of India
  Revolutionary Communist Party of India is a political party in India. The party was founded by Saumyendranath Tagore in 1934, breaking away from the Communist Party of India. During the period 1934–1938 the name of the party was Communist League...
  
  
• Marxist Forward Bloc
  Marxist Forward Bloc
  Marxist Forward Bloc is political party in India, a splinter-group of the All India Forward Bloc. MFB was formed in 1953 as Satyapria Banerjee, a member of the AIFB Central Secretariat, Amar Bose, Suhurit Chaudhury and Ram Chatterji were expelled from AIFB...
  
  
• West Bengal Socialist Party
  West Bengal Socialist Party
  West Bengal Socialist Party was a political party in the Indian state of West Bengal. WBSP was formed when the Bengali socialists in the then Janata Party split in the beginning of the 1980s . WBSP was a part of Left Front...
  
   now Samajwadi Party
  Samajwadi Party
  Samajwadi Party is a political party in India. It is based in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It describes itself as a democratic socialist party...
  
  

• Democratic Socialist Party
  Democratic Socialist Party (Prabodh Chandra)
  Democratic Socialist Party is a social democratic political party in India. The party was formed in 1981 when H.N Bahuguna came out of the then Janata Party and took the lead in forming it.The party is almost completely limited to West Bengal. The party was formed when the Bengali socialists, who...
  
  
• Biplobi Bangla Congress
  Biplobi Bangla Congress
  BIPLOBI BANGLA CONGRESS is a political party in West Bengal, India. Emerged as a splinter-group of Bangla Congress ahead of the 1971 elections...
  
  
• Workers Party of India
  Workers Party of India
  Workers Party of India is a political party in the Indian state of West Bengal. WPI has its origin in the Democratic Vanguard in India. DV was formed in 1943 when a group led by Jiban Lal Chattopadhyay broke away from the Radical Democratic Party of Manabendra Nath Roy. DV were dissatified with the...
  
  

Communist Revolutionary League of India

Communist Revolutionary League of India

Communist Revolutionary League of India is a political party in the Indian state of West Bengal. The party is led by Ashim Chatterjee, former student leader of Communist Party of India...

 was a member of the West Bengal LF between 1995 and 2000.
Workers Party of India

Workers Party of India

Workers Party of India is a political party in the Indian state of West Bengal. WPI has its origin in the Democratic Vanguard in India. DV was formed in 1943 when a group led by Jiban Lal Chattopadhyay broke away from the Radical Democratic Party of Manabendra Nath Roy. DV were dissatified with the...

 was inducted prior to state elections in 2011.

The convenor of the West Bengal Left Front committee is Biman Bose

Biman Bose

Biman Bose is the state chief of the West Bengal Communist Party of India . He is also a Politburo member of the party. Besides, he is the present Chairman of the Left Front committee of West Bengal.-Notes:...

, a politburo

Politburo

Politburo , literally "Political Bureau [of the Central Committee]," is the executive committee for a number of communist political parties.-Marxist-Leninist states:...

 member of the CPI(M).

Tripura Left Front

In Tripura

Tripura

Tripura is a state in North-East India, with an area of . It is the third smallest state of India, according to area. Tripura is surrounded by Bangladesh on the north, south, and west. The Indian states of Assam and Mizoram lie to the east. The capital is Agartala and the main languages spoken are...

, the following parties are members of Left Front:

• Communist Party of India (Marxist)
  Communist Party of India (Marxist)
  The Communist Party of India is a political party in India. It has a strong presence in the states of Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura. As of 2011, CPI is leading the state government in Tripura. It leads the Left Front coalition of leftist parties in various states and the national parliament of...
  
   forms the largest part of it.
• Communist Party of India
  Communist Party of India
  The Communist Party of India is a national political party in India. In the Indian communist movement, there are different views on exactly when the Indian communist party was founded. The date maintained as the foundation day by CPI is 26 December 1925...
  
  
• Revolutionary Socialist Party
  Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)
  Revolutionary Socialist Party is a Marxist-Leninist political party in India. The party was founded on March 19, 1940 and has its roots in the Bengali liberation movement Anushilan Samiti and the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army. The party got around 0,4% of the votes and three seats in the Lok...
  
  
• All India Forward Bloc
  All India Forward Bloc
  The All India Forward Bloc is a leftwing 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 after the independence of India...
  
  

The convenor of the Tripura Left Front committee is Khagen Das

Khagen Das

Khagen Das is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Tripura West constituency of Tripura and is a member of the Communist Party of India political party.-External links:*...

, a central committee member of the CPI(M).

Kerala Left Democratic Front

In Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

, a formation of left parties led by the CPI(M) called the Left Democratic Front is the opposition group in the Kerala State Assembly.

• Communist Party of India(Marxist)
• Communist Party of India
• Revolutionary Socialist Party
• Janata Dal (Secular)
• Nationalist Congress Party
• Kerala Congress (Anti-Merger Group)
• Congress (S)