Tag: CPI-M

Autocratic TMC rule in Bengal, alleges Opp

State BJP chief claims arms for Amdanga violence brought in from Bangladesh.

September 19, 2018

Puja bonanza

With puja pandals sprouting up across Kolkata and the rest of the state, there is collective jubilation over Mamata Banerjee’s bonanza of Rs 28 crore to all puja committees. A fair amount of money will, therefore, be shelled out by the West Bengal government that since 2011 has contended with a torpid economy. Doublethink runs …

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September 17, 2018

Bengal BJP worried over TMC’s rising violence on supporters

“For the past six months since the panchayat election held, TMC with the help of the Congress and CPI-M is desperately trying to force the people not to support the BJP,” BJP state president Dilip Ghosh said.

September 15, 2018

Rally set benchmark in worker-peasant unity: CPI-M

The CPI-M mouthpiece People’s Democracy, in an editorial, said the rally was also a “concrete manifestation of the worker-peasant alliance” that is beginning to take shape.

September 7, 2018

BJP resorting to politics of murder: Mamata

Mamata says state government will never allow NRC exercise in Bengal, charges that the BJP is now working with erstwhile CPM 'harmads'

August 29, 2018

TMC using Rakhi festival as a political tool: Ghosh

Ghosh says BJP does not appease people of any community to attract votes.

August 27, 2018

‘Modi a very different shade of leader from Vajpayee’

CPI-M says there is ideological difference between Ex-PM Atal Behari Vajpayee and current PM Modi.

August 18, 2018

Honour the Titan

I last spoke to Somnath Chatterjee in June, a few days before his hospitalisation. It was, as always, a very gentle request. He was the embodiment of old world courtesy. This was in connection with setting up of a Cancer Treatment Facility in Assam, the State of his birth, which he so dearly loved. Not …

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August 17, 2018

Land for Power

Last weekend witnessed a remarkable forward movement in terms of land and industry, issues on which a high-voltage approach had doomed the Bengal Left. Chiefly, the three parties that concluded Saturday’s agreement on a power project in Bhangar (South 24-Parganas) ~ the West Bengal government, the land agitators, and the power entity called PGCIL ~ …

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August 14, 2018

Somnath’s family rejects CPI-M request to drape body with red flag

Anushila said a number of other parties and others had come to his father with many lucrative offers. "But his answer was always the same -- No".

August 13, 2018

Story of a passionate chronicler

Revolutionary and iconoclast Saroj Dutta’s only weapon was his razor-sharp, fearless pen that never stopped him from putting down on paper what he felt was wrong with the party he once proudly belonged to.

July 29, 2018

Terror trauma continues in Tripura, Bengal: Yechury

CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury said on Thursday that the politics of the violence and terror continues to be unleashed by the ruling BJPIPFT government in Tripura and the Trinamul Congress government in West Bengal. Addressing a Press conference in the state CPI-M headquarters, Mr Yechury said that an open daylight murder of democracy is …

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July 13, 2018

Govt claim on MSP fraudulent : CPI-M

The CPI-M on Thursday said the Central Government had made “fraudulent claims” that it had fulfilled its promise to implement the Swaminathan Commission recommendations by hiking the minimum support prices (MSPs) for paddy and other crops on Wednesday. The Commission had recommended how the cost of production should be calculated and that the MSP should …

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July 5, 2018

BJP will target Kashmiris ahead of Lok Sabha polls: CPI-M

The Communist Party of India-Marxist said that the issue of Kashmir was necessary for the Bharatiya Janata Party for its political platform for the Lok Sabha elections in the whole country. 

June 28, 2018

Sitaram Yechury accuses BJP of trying to destabilise non-BJP state govts

Sitaram Yechury, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), accused the Modi government of trying to destabilise non-BJP state governments using the Governors’ offices in the country.

June 17, 2018

Question of formation of any front after poll results: Yechury

CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury said that question of formation of any front will come up only after poll results are out. He lashed out both the BJP and TMC saying “BJP is to be fought nationally and TMC in Bengal.” The CPI-M on Thursday also formed a new state secretariat in which former chief …

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May 25, 2018

CPM men hurt in S Dinajpur clash

Two CPI-M activists were injured when they clashed with alleged Trinamul Congress supporters in Raikhan village in Jakirpur area in South Dinajpur on Thursday. The injured have been identified as Md Sahidul Mandal, 37 and Ahedul Mandal, 32. An FIR has been filed against a local TMC leader, Hafezuddin Mandal. Trinamul leaders, however, denied the …

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May 11, 2018