New Delhi, Jan. 22 -- The Congress is exploring its options for poll-bound West Bengal and could decide to go alone in the Assembly elections in the state with no talks held so far for alliance with Left parties, party sources said here on Thursday.

Sources said several leaders in the Bengal party unit are keen that the party goes alone in the polls as it has been weakened by contesting polls mostly in alliance for over decades.

They said there is still no clarity on the party's stance even as Trinamool Congress and BJP have plunged into the campaign.

The sources said that the party is likely to fight the forthcoming polls on its own.

The Left-Congress-Indian Secular Front (ISF) alliance had performed very poorly in the last polls, wi...