Tag: CPI-M

Mausam Noor pitches for alliance with TMC, others disagree

The BJP is practising communal politics in different parts of the country and to hold it back an alliance with Trinamul is necessary, the Malda (north) MP said.

November 2, 2018

Sabarimala row: Amit Shah’s criticism of SC edict exposes who incited violence: CPI-M

The CPI-M accused Shah of blatantly ridiculing the ruling of the Supreme Court. However, it said it was in keeping with the RSS-BJP's contempt for the Constitution and the Supreme Court.

October 28, 2018

Cong, CPM slam BJP over rath yatras in Bengal

Religion was never allowed to be mixed with politics in the state till the BJP started to do so with the abetment of the ruling party, senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member Pradip Bhattacharya said.

October 24, 2018

‘Left’s main focus is to defeat BJP in ’19 polls’

Talking to the media after his party’s three-day Central Committee meet, Yechury said in Uttar Pradesh, SP and Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP) were strong, and so, the CPIM would support them against the BJP.

October 9, 2018

CPI-M MLA irked by Governor’s remark

In a statement, Tarigami said that the recent statement of Malik that “neither political parties nor other organizations are so relevant in Kashmir as youth” could have been avoided.

October 3, 2018

Target the Child

Children deserved better from the party that claims to be the principal opposition in West Bengal. The extent of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Bangla bandh last Wednesday is of lesser moment than the fact that a bus ferrying 25 kids and a handful of teachers to DPS school at Megacity, on the outskirts of Kolkata, …

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October 1, 2018

Bengal bandh: BJP claims success

The day is marked by twin triumphs, the state BJP president said.

September 27, 2018

Himachal Pradesh: BJP demands special package, Congress for one time bail out

The BJP called for a special economic package for debt ridden Himachal, the Congress Legislative Party demanded one time bailout package while the CPI-M pointed out that Himachal had yet not got its rights envisaged in the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 in terms of revenue shares in the joint assets.

September 26, 2018

Triple talaq ordinance undemocratic: CPI-M

It comes against the backdrop of the government's inability to get the bill on the issue passed in the last monsoon session of Parliament.

September 20, 2018

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