India, March 3 -- The Congress party is going to face a new litmus test in the forthcoming general elections as left parties seem either distancing from it or snubbing its leaders. Recently, in contrast to the long assimilation of the two ideological entities, Left parties have slapped an ultimatum that Rahul Gandhi should pick any other Lok Sabha seat and leave Vyanad (Kerala) for the CPI candidate and its national executive member Annie Raja, who is married to party general secretary D Raja.

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