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Incidentally, the party’s state secretariat and executive committee had earlier expressed the party’s desire to contest from Madhubani and Purvi Champaran. They had also proposed Prabhakar Jaiswal as the party’s candidate for Purvi Champaran seat.“These decisions were taken by the state unit of the CPI. It is unfortunate,” Naraina said.In the meantime, the party’s decision to contest two other seats — Madhubani and Purvi Champaran — appeared to be still in suspense. “However, a broad coalition of the Left, secular and democratic forces opposed to BJP could not be formed. The party’s central committee has not taken any decision on it,” Naraina said, adding, “The final decision would be on the two seats would be made public soon.”He was accompanied by senior state CPI functionaries Vijay Narayan Mishra and Rabindra Nath Rai..