With speculations of GNLF leader Subash Ghisingh being offered the RS seat by the Left, chairman of the Front, Biman Bose rubbished it saying, “There was no discussion on Ghisingh at all.”

Of the five seats, three belonged to CPM, one to Forward Bloc and the fifth was held by the Trinamool Congress seat. The Left Front will contest all four seats it has while looking for a “consensus candidate” for the fifth seat.

“We have done this in the past in case of independent candidates like Shankar Roy Chowdhury and Arjun Sengupta. I have been asked to decide on a candidate,” Bose added. Sources however said that one couldn’t entirely rule out the possibility of Ghisingh being nominated as the “consensus candidate.”

“If the Congress proposes Ghisingh as a candidate and the Left Front decides to support a Congress- backed “consensus candidate”, then there is a possibility,” said an insider.

Meanwhile, the rift in the Front widened. The CPI is firm in its demand for a seat but the Forward Bloc is resisting it, as it wants the re-election of its MP Debabrata Biswas.