Kolkata, Oct 13 (PTI) CPI(ML) Liberation general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya on Monday said that decks have been cleared for the party to contest at least 18 seats in the Bihar polls, while negotiations were underway for a few more constituencies.

Bhattacharya said that the party, which is a constituent of the opposition Mahagathbandhan, will begin filing nominations from Tuesday, even as the Grand Alliance is yet to make a formal announcement about seat sharing.

He also slammed the voter roll deletions under the Election Commission's special intensive revision (SIR) as an "electoral purge masquerading as verification".

The Left outfit, which emerged as a key player in the 2020 polls by winning 12 of the 19 seats it contested, this time had sought around 40 seats.

Bhattacharya, in

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