A meeting of the AL Central Working Committee (ALCWC) on July 10 assigned its senior leader Suranjit Sengupta, MP, to give it a try again.

The last year's AL bid for a rapprochement with pro-liberation parties fell apart as the leftists opted to stick to an 'independent policy line.'

"Taking the present political state into account, the AL will be ready to forge an ideal alliance of parties on mutual understanding," said Suranjit, who tabled the proposal for coalition in the meeting.

"Traditionally, we enjoy good relationship with the left-leaning parties. We want to strengthen that relationship on a common platform," he said.

"Forging alliance with the leftists is nothing new to the AL," he said. "Together we launched movement to oust autocrat regimes in the past. We have similar thinking on many issues."

The alliance might be formed on three understandings -- the oust-government movement, participation in polls as an alliance and sharing of power, if elected, said Sengupta, adding that AL would sit with the friendly left parties very soon.

However, leaders of the left-leaning parties ruled out any possibility for forging alliance, as differences on economical and social philosophies stand in their way.

"We may launch movement on common issues but that does not mean we're on way to make a coalition. Our party decision is that we will not go for any alliance with the AL," said Rashed Khan Menon, president of the Workers' Party of Bangladesh.

Terming the 11-party alliance the only coalition of the leftists, he said the top priority of the left-inclined parties is to make a 'greater communist unity' happen.

Mujahidul Islam Selim, general secretary of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB), said they are yet to get any concrete proposal from the AL.

"Like others, we're also fighting against the government's repression on opponents. But forming any political alliance with the AL is not on our agenda unless it changes its economical and social policies," he said

The left parties would continue to pursue an 'independent line' and emerge as an 'alternate political force' other than the AL and BNP, he said emphatically.