Left benefitted with alliances, but their vote base eroded over the years

The Left is allying with the Congress party after nearly two decades; the CPI and CPI(M) had an alliance with the Congress in 2004 in composite Andhra Pradesh, during Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s tenure

​The Left is allying with the Congress party after nearly two decades; the CPI and CPI(M) had an alliance with the Congress in 2004 in composite Andhra Pradesh, during Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s tenure