A new political party was born in Kolkata on Thursday and will join the scramble for a slice of the 294-seat pie in the West Bengal assembly in the upcoming elections. The party's name: Indian Secular Front or ISF. Its chief patron Pirzada Abbas Siddiqui, a 34-year-old preacher-turned-politician. He belongs to the family associated with Furfura Sharif in Hooghly district, one of the holiest mazars in the country, second only to Ajmer Sharif.
