Left parties have actively bridged the gap between the Congress and the CJP by participating in anti-BJP protests and providing crucial ground support. While the Congress navigates its political strategy independently, the Left's unwavering physical and ideological presence highlights a unified stance against the ruling administration's policies. Furthermore, student wings like AISA are playing a pivotal role in fostering cooperation among diverse opposition groups on the streets of Delhi.

Left parties have actively bridged the gap between the Congress and the CJP by participating in anti-BJP protests and providing crucial ground support. While the Congress navigates its political strategy independently, the Left's unwavering physical and ideological presence highlights a unified stance against the ruling administration's policies. Furthermore, student wings like AISA are playing a pivotal role in fostering cooperation among diverse opposition groups on the streets of Delhi.

Left parties have actively bridged the gap between the Congress and the CJP by participating in anti-BJP protests and providing crucial ground support. While the Congress navigates its political strategy independently, the Left's unwavering physical and ideological presence highlights a unified stance against the ruling administration's policies. Furthermore, student wings like AISA are playing a pivotal role in fostering cooperation among diverse opposition groups on the streets of Delhi.

Political parties have had a lot of considerations to navigate through their politics and find a moment to join the Opposition against the BJP. The saffron party's biggest and most consistent bete noire, the Congress, has also been navigating its politics like other parties. It has not acknowledged the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) and has been trying to take its own movement against the BJP forward. However, the Left parties have behaved differently.

Even though they are in opposition to the Congress in Kerala, they joined the national stage alongside the Congress, unlike other parties. They also took every opportunity to support the CJP on the ground. And possibly, the student wing AISA, one of the factions of the Left ideology, could be a uniting force between the CJP and the Congress, according to political observers. 

AISA national president Neha Bora has been the only student leader who has vehemently supported the Congress's political charge against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP while also fighting alongside the CJP on the streets. This is despite the Congress trying to distance itself from acknowledging the CJP, while CJP leaders, too, have tried to keep the movement non-political.

The Left parties had deployed their members during the first CJP protests at Jantar Mantar, where no other party was present. Their flags were more pronounced, more visible, and their sloganeering was more ardent.

Even for the protest called by the CJP on October 10, they had prepared and made plans to gather in large numbers. “I called a few people, but they were unable to come. We gathered at the SFI office in Delhi and, after that, marched towards Jantar Mantar, but we were detained midway,” said 49-year-old Kulsuma Bibi, a member of a Left party.

According to political observers, the Left parties have ensured, both in spirit and physically, that they stand with everything that stands against the BJP and its alleged activities of eroding India's democracy.

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