Calcutta, April 2 :    Calcutta, April 2:  Five small Left Front constituents are in a fix over contesting the Assembly elections on the CPM symbol in the wake of an Election Commission directive. The Left Front has convened an emergency meeting tomorrow to discuss the issue. The Election Commission has stipulated that candidates, who do not belong to recognised political parties, will have to accept free symbols. The Left Front constituents affected by the directive are the West Bengal Socialist Party, Forward Bloc (Marxist), Democratic Socialist Party, Biplabi Bangla Congress and Revolutionary Communist Party of India. The total number of candidates of these constituents is 10. The concerned parties have been contesting polls on the CPM symbol since 1982. West Bengal Socialist Party chief and state fisheries minister Kironmoy Nanda said his party had appealed to the Election Commission to provide the free symbol, bungalow, to its four candidates. 'We are a registered party and consistently winning at least three of the four Assembly seats since 1982. Moreover, my party has a minister in the state Cabinet. The commission has asked for a few more details about functioning of the party and we hope that our appeal will be considered,'' Nanda said. State chief electoral officer Sabyasachi Sen admitted that Nanda's party had asked for the bungalow symbol. But the commission had not taken any decision on the issue. Minister for fire services and Forward Bloc (Marxist) leader Pratim Chatterjee admitted that his party might face an electoral debacle if it was not allowed to contest on the CPM symbol. 'We have only two candidates this time. Party workers have already completed 75 per cent of wall-writing, clearly indicating that the CPM symbol is also our symbol. Now we have to pick one of the free symbols available for the Independents at the time of filing nomination. If so, we have only 10 days left for campaigning with the new symbol. It is difficult for us to convince voters that it is the same party with a new symbol within such a short time,'' Chatterjee said. The Democratic Socialist Party is contesting two Assembly seats. Its chief and state parliamentary affairs minister Probodh Sinha is not very perturbed over the issue. 'This will be discussed at the Left Front meeting tomorrow and we will abide by the consensus arrived at in the meeting,'' he said. According to the state election office, it has been made mandatory for a candidate to submit a declaration from the recognised party that he/she is a party member and should be allowed to use its election symbol. The commission will not allot the symbol of a recognised party only because the candidate is enjoying its support.