Indian Secular Front

The Indian Secular Front (abbreviation: ISF) officially known as All India Secular Front is an Indian political party formed in West Bengal by Abbas Siddiqui, an influential cleric of the shrine of Furfura Sharif in Hooghly district.^[1]

Indian Secular Front
Abbreviation	ISF
President	Simul Soren
Chairman	Nawsad Siddiqui
Founder	Abbas Siddiqui
Founded	21 January 2021 (4 years ago) (2021-01-21)
Headquarters	Furfura Sharif, Hooghly, West Bengal
Ideology	Constitutional democracy Secularism Social Justice Minority rights Dalit rights
ECI Status	Unrecognised
Seats in Lok Sabha	0 / 543
Seats in Rajya Sabha	0 / 245
Seats in West Bengal Legislative Assembly	1 / 294
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History

This party was formed ahead of the West Bengal Assembly election of 2021^[2] and joined the Sanjukta Morcha,^[3] led by the Left Front and the Indian National Congress^[3] against the Trinamool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party.^[4] The party contested the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election in 38 seats and won in 1 seat.^[5] The party fought the election under the borrowed symbol of Rashtriya Secular Majlis Party, a Bihar-based political party. After the election, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, the head of West Bengal Congress, declared an end to the alliance with Indian Secular Front.^[6]

Electoral performance

For the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, the ISF allied with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Indian National Congress in an alliance named Sanjukta Morcha. Nawsad Siddique is the only MLA from the party.

Election Year	Party leader	Seats contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Percentage of votes	Vote swing	Popular vote
2021	Nawsad Siddique[7]	32[8]	1	1	1.35%	N/A	813,489

Criminal Controversies

Prior to the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, bombs and guns were recovered by the police from the residence of Ziarul Mollah, a party worker.^[9]

See also

• List of political parties in India