The CPI(M)-led Left Front announced 38 candidates for Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal on Tuesday, adding that they are waiting for the Congress party’s response on probable alliance in state, before it announces candidates in the rest of the Lok Sabha seats. “We announced a list of 38 candidates.[Read More…]
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CPI-M renominates sitting MPs for 2 Tripura seats
Agartala: The CPI-M-led Left Front in Tripura on Tuesday announced its candidates for the state’s two Lok Sabha seats, renominating sitting MPs Jitendra Chowdhury and Shankar Prasad Datta from the Tripura East and Tripura West constituencies, respectively. Announcing the names, Left Front Convener Bijan Dhar said the Left parties would[Read More…]
Kerala: CPI(M) announces LDF’s candidates for 2019 Lok Sabha elections; Check complete list
Thiruvananthapuram: The CPI(M) party has announced its list of candidates which will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from the 20 constituency seats of Kerala. The list includes six sitting MLAs from the Pinarayi Vijayan-led LDF government, four of which are from the CPI(M), while two are from the CPI.[Read More…]
Sack Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy: CPI-M
New Delhi: The CPI-M on Thursday asked President Ram Nath Kovind to sack Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy for calling for a boycott of Kashmir and Kashmiris following the suicide bombing that killed 40 CRPF troopers. The Governor, “in yet another outrageous statement, has endorsed a call for a boycott of[Read More…]
Protests to intensify until Citizenship Bill is withdrawn: CPI-M
Agartala, Until the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill is withdrawn, protests against it will intensify, especially in the Northeast, former Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said on Monday. Sarkar was addressing a protest rally against the Bill here and said if it became an Act, it would destroy the fundamental facet of[Read More…]
Opposition prime ministerial candidate to be decided after elections: Yechury
New Delhi: The CPI-M on Thursday said the issue of the Prime Minister among the non-BJP parties would be decided after the general election. “As in democracy we select the government, just like that we will elect our prime ministerial candidate,” Communist Party of India-Marxist General Secretary Sitaram Yechury told[Read More…]
CPI-M yet to act against Kerala MLA for ‘misbehaviour’
Palghat (Kerala): A CPI-M woman cadre on Thursday once again approached General Secretary Sitaram Yechury demanding action against Kerala MLA PK Sasi for “misbehaving” with her. This is the second time that she has approached the central body after August when the state unit was asked to constitute a two-member[Read More…]
Left sweeps JNUSU polls
New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS) The United Left alliance on Sunday won all the four top posts in the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU), leaving the ABVP and NSUI way behind. The JNUSU Election Committee announced that N. Sai Balaji, Sarika Chaudhary, Aejaz Ahmad Rather and Amutha Jayadeep of the[Read More…]
Somnath Chatterjee’s family rejects CPI-M request to drape body with red flag
KOLKATA: Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee’s family on Monday turned down the request of the CPI-M leadership to drape the expelled member’s body in the red flag and allow him to be taken to the party’s West Bengal state headquarters here for people to pay their last respects. “The[Read More…]
Trinamool Congress will fight 2019 general elections alone in Bengal: Mamata
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Saturday her Trinamool Congress would fight the 2019 General elections alone in West Bengal and warned the Congress and the Left not to join hands with the BJP in the state while seeking her support at the Centre. Addressing the party’s[Read More…]
CPI-M targets PM Modi for keeping quiet over increasing cases of mob violence
Blaming failure at the political level for increasing cases of mob violence, the CPI-M has said that communal and sectarian fault lines which have opened up in our society lead to dehumanising and anarchic violence. The unconscionable and brutal violence emanating from the child lifting scare reveals deep social pathologies,[Read More…]
Electoral tactics alone cannot defeat BJP: CPI-M
New Delhi: It will be wrong to underestimate the pan-India strength of the BJP and to think that electoral tactics alone will be enough to defeat it, the CPI-M has said. The key link at this juncture is to gather the growing discontent against the BJP rule, especially due to[Read More…]
Congress, CPI-M have ganged up with BJP for panchayat polls: Mamata
Kolkata: Accusing the Congress and CPI-M of ganging up with the BJP for the coming panchayat polls, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday asked the two parties whether they supported the saffron outfit’s ideology in the state. “We want one to one fight against BJP, because it is[Read More…]
Farmers ‘crack whip’ on Maharashtra government
Mumbai: For the second time in 10 months, Maharashtra farmers cracked the whip on the government to turn spotlight on the grave agrarian crises gripping the state by completing a long march to the Legislature, here on Monday. More than an estimated 35,000 peasants — men, women, youth and even[Read More…]
BJP, ally leading in Tripura
Agartala: Putting up a remarkable show, the BJP and its alliance partner, Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura, surged ahead of the ruling CPI-M-led Left Front in the counting of votes for the 59 assembly constituencies in Tripura on Saturday. Polling has been countermanded in one constituency of the 60-strong assembly following[Read More…]
100% FDI in retail will harm retailers, shopkeepers: CPI-M
The CPI-M on Wednesday denounced the government decision to allow 100 per cent FDI through the automatic route in single brand retail trade, warning this will have “harmful consequences” for domestic retail traders and shopkeepers. Until now, Foreign Direct Investment up to 49 per cent was permitted under the automatic[Read More…]
Vijayan orders action against Kerala school on RSS issue
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday ordered action against a school in Palakkad for allowing RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat to hoist the national flag during the Independence Day celebrations. Vijayan directed the Director of Public Instruction (DPI) to ensure that proper action was taken against the Headmaster and Manager[Read More…]
RSS-BJP combine intensified communal Hindutva campaign: Kerala CM
Indians are living in a climate of hate and intolerance, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan says, adding that the Congress was incapable of fighting “communal forces” ideologically. Vijayan also said that the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) will decide whether he has to exit Kerala and play a larger national[Read More…]
Mukul Roy joining BJP ‘Aaya Ram Gaya Ram’ politics: CPI-M
Dismissing former Trinamool Congress leader Mukul Roy’s crossing over to the BJP as “Aya Ram Gaya Ram’ politics, the CPI-M on Sunday said it would be “suicidal” if anybody harboured thoughts of fighting one of them by joining the other as the two parties “complement each other”. “So many people[Read More…]
LDF at the receiving end of saffron attack in Kerala, says politburo
A day after a bomb was thrown at the venue of a public meeting addressed by CPI(M) state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan in Kerala, the communist party on Friday alleged that it was at the receiving end of violence by Sangh Parivar organisations, contrary to the BJP claim. “This attack by[Read More…]
BJP deposited Rs 1 cr in bank account hours before demonetisation: CPI(M)
CPI(M) West Bengal unit on Friday alleged that a huge amount of cash has been deposited in the bank account of the BJP state unit. The deposits were made hours before the demonetisation announcement and using only the bank notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000, The Hindu Business Line reported. An[Read More…]
Former AISA-Delhi President faces rape allegations from fellow JNU student
A 28-year-old PhD scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University was allegedly raped by a fellow student on Saturday when she went to his hostel room to copy a movie on a pen drive. The accused, Anmol Ratan is a fellow student and leader of AISA, the student wing of the CPI[Read More…]