RANCHI: The Communist Party of India Marxist Leninist will offer its support to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the assembly election in Delhi next month, informed the party national general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya here on Tuesday. “The party will support AAP in the elections on the seats it will not contest,” said Bhattacharya at a media address divulging the left outfit’s plans of contesting in 20 out of 70 seats in the state.

CPI (ML)’s decision to back AAP is propelled by its intentions to check Bharatiya Janata Party’s ( BJP ) run in several states following the latter’s landslide victory in parliamentary election last year, Bhattacharya said. The party’s decision to back AAP will surely give the latter some respite as it is fighting hard to make up for its loss of face, after he resigned as the chief minister, a month after coming to power in early 2014.

The Arvind Kejriwal led party is also fighting to win back its lost ground and trying to recover from successive jolts by its own bigwigs who aborted the camp. On the other hand, BJP registered successive wins in Haryana, Maharashtra and Jharkhand, with Jharkhand getting its first majority government 14 years after its inception months after forming government in the Lok Sabha.

Bhattacharya also hinted a possible left alliance in Bihar ahead of the assembly poll, due to be carried out by November 2015. “We are certainly looking at a left alliance against the Janata Parivaar in Bihar in the coming election. But then, we will have to wait and see,” he said.

The left party is also galvanizing a movement next month in New Delhi against the BJP regime at the center to protest its atrocities under All India Peoples’ Forum, the leaders said. “With its new policies like land acquisition and cutting down funds to the MGNERGA, the government is doing things against the deprived rather than working for their betterment,” a leader said.

