Kolkata, March 20 -- All India Secular Front on Friday announced that the party will contest on 33 seats in the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections.

Founded by Abbas Siddiqui in 2021 and currently led by lone MLA Naushad Siddiqui in West Bengal, ISF has opposed both Trinamool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party, the two big camps in the state.

There were rumours of ISF forming an alliance with former TMC leader Humayun Kabir's new party, Janata Unnayan Party (JUP). Last month, Naushad Siddiqui told ANI that the party was looking to contest 60-70 seats and had approached Congress for an alliance in the state.

He said, " We are not in a position to contest all 294 seats in Bengal... We are ready to contest for around 60-70 seats. We ...