KOLKATA: The opposition Left Front on Monday announced the name of it's candidate for by-elections to Contai (South) assembly seat scheduled to take place on April 9. "Uttam Pradhan of the CPI will contest the seat as Left Front nominee," Biman Bose, Front chairman and CPIM polit bureau member announced on Monday after the meeting of the Front. Mamata Banerjee has already announced that former health minister and Trinamool's woman wing leader Chandrima Bhattacharjee will contest the seat which fell vacant after former Trinamool MLA Dibyendu Adhikary resigned from the state Assembly following his victory in Tamluk lok sabha by-elections held in last November.Left Front's decision to contest the seat and announce it's candidate without consulting the Congress with which it had an electoral alliance during last year's Assembly polls , indicates clearly that the CPIM and it's partners in the Front would fight all elections in future independently without support from the Congress.After the Left announced it's candidate, Bengal Congress president and party MP, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury told ET that "We will also contest the by-elections separately without support from the Congress."The BJP too, will fight the by-elections, the result of which will be annnounced on April 13.Electoral alliance between CPIM and Congress got snapped during last November's by-elections to two Lok Sabha and one assembly seat in Bengal. Both the parties had fielded their candidates in both the three seats in lok sabha and state assembly and lost all three. This time too, the Left parties and Congress are going to fight each other during April's by-elections.Many Bengal Congress leaders, however, feel that they should not field candidate for the Contai by-elections to keep in tact anti-Mamata votes. These Congress leaders also feel that the BJP which performed supremely in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand assembly polls, would gain politically if Congress and CPIM fight each other. " Trinamool Congress too, will gain electorally if we fight against CPIM," said a senior Bengal Congress leader.