Senior Communist Party of India (CPI) leader AB Bardhan arrived here on Tuesday on a two-day visit. Bardhan told reporters that his party would be holding discussions with the BJD over a possible alliance for the forthcoming elections.
The other left party CPI(M) has already announced its candidates for the polls preferring to go it alone in the State. BJD vice-president Kalpataru Das, who had earlier said his party would field candidates in all 147 Assembly and 21 lok Sabha seats in the State. But BJD chief Naveen Patnaik is now having discussions with the JMM over a possible electoral alliance with it.