Saira Shah Halim, the niece of veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah, is confident of repeating the 2022 performance in the Lok Sabha. Halim, who has revived the CPI(M)'s fortunes in the Ballygunge Assembly seat in West Bengal, believes that the TMC-BJP binary can be broken. The Left is facing massive anti-incumbency due to various scams, with nearly 26,000 teachers losing their jobs and the former education minister in jail. Halim believes that the Left needs to focus on core people's issues, such as education, jobs, sanitation, air index, water, and illegal construction.
