India, March 26 -- Losing turf, mega-flop in 2021 and long-term strategy - is what has pushed the Congress to go solo in West Bengal after two decades of shifting alliances with the Trinamool Congress and the Left parties.

The decision comes even as the Congress, which went into an alliance with the TMC in 2011 and the Left Parties in the last two elections, has underperformed in the past elections.

The Congress, which was the main challenger to the Left government and later, to the TMC, for a majority in the last four decades, is now out of the top race, paving the way for a TMC vs BJP fight in the past two elections.

A stark example of the party's abysmal performance was the 2021 elections, where the party could not even win a single...