West Bengal Assembly Election 2021: Indian Secular Front Fields Candidates From Across Religions, Castes

The BJP and the Trinamool Congress have accused the newly floated political outfit of being a party playing the minority card.

The newly formed Indian Secular Front  (ISF), led by Furfura Sharif's influential cleric Abbas Siddiqui, has fielded candidates cutting across religions and castes for the West Bengal assembly elections, in a bid to prove its secular credentials. The BJP and the Trinamool Congress have accused the newly floated political outfit of being a party playing the minority card. Of the 21 candidates the Indian Secular Front has so far announced as part of its share of seats in the alliance with the Left Front and the Congress, 10 are either Hindu or belong to Adivasi communities, while the rest are Muslims. Simul Soren, president of the ISF, said the party represents the interests of the Dalits, Adivasis and OBCs, irrespective of their religious beliefs.