Christy Fernandez and V. Abdurahman. The Kollam seat was allocated to former state minister and senior CPI(M) leader M.A. Baby, after the Revolutionary Socialist Party deserted the LDF and joined the United Democratic Front. Madhya Pradesh The party announced two candidates from Madhya Pradesh. Early CPI(M), CPI and Samajwadi Party had an alliance in the state, but this alliance was broken during the 2013 Legislative Assembly elections. Ahead of the 2014 CPI(M), CPI and Rashtriya Samanta Dal formed an alliance. CPI(M) candidate Akhilesh Yadav is the secretary of the Gwalior District unit of the party. Maharashtra The party announced four candidates from Maharashtra. Ladak Kharpade is a member of the CPI(M) Thane District Secretariat. Tanaji Jaybhave is a member of the Nasik Municipal Corporation. D.B. Naik is a Kisan Sabha leader. Manipur The party did not launch any candidate of its own in Manipur. In the Inner Manipur seat the party supported Moirangthem Nara Singh of CPI, as the common candidate of the Left and Secular Alliance. In the Outer Manipur seat it decided to support the NCP nominee Chungkhokai Doungel. Odisha In Odisha the Lok Sabha elections of 2014 coincides with the Legislative Assembly election. Talks on seat sharing between CPI(M) and CPI concerned both elections. As of mid-March 2014 no seat-sharing agreement had been reached between the left parties and the Biju Janata Dal in the state. CPI(M) had, however, expressed that they would support CPI candidates. There had been some disagreements on the Balasore Lok Sabha seat, which both parties wanted to contest. In the end CPI(M) decided not to field a candidate there, instead they got support from CPI for their candidature in the Remuna assembly seat (which is within the boundaries of the Balasore Lok Sabha constituency). In the Berhampur Lok Sabha constituency Odisha, the CPI(M) fielded veteran communist leader and state secretariat member Ali Kishor Patnaik. CPI(M) also reached an agreement with CPI(ML) Liberation that they would exchange mutual support in the seats where they did contest against each other. Punjab On 17 January 2014 CPI(M) Punjab State Committee Secretary Charan Singh Virdi stated that the party would contest four Lok Sabha seats on its own, fielding Balbir Singh Jadla in Anandpur Sahib, Sukhwinder Singh Sekhon in Ludhiana, Joginder Singh Aulakh from Sangrur and a fourth candidate from Jalandhar. On 28 February 2014, in response to the failure of Sanjha Morcha to reach a