The CPI-M on Thursday said it was not averse to joining hands with the Congress and other secular forces to forge a broad-based unity in combating the attack on democracy and secularism in West Bengal.

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar’s call for opposition unity should be taken seriously.

Fraternal cousins CPI and CPI(M) are engaged in a war of words in Andhra Pradesh over the bypolls to 18 Assembly and one Lok Sabha seats scheduled to...