On the back of its successful run in the 2020 Bihar Assembly election, the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) is hoping that it will be able to re-enter the Parliament from Bihar after a gap of nearly three decades.
The last time a CPI (ML) MP was elected from Bihar was in 1989, when Rameshwar Prasad won from Arrah. In the 2020 Assembly poll, the party won 12 of the 19 seats it contested. Its hopes are buoyed by the fact that it is part of the larger Opposition alliance, the Rashtriya Janata Dal-led mahagatbandhan.
