The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Sunday announced a major mobilisation in the national capital, saying it will hold a “Jan Akrosh Rally” at Ramlila Grounds on March 24, marking the culmination of an extensive campaign across northern India against what it described as the “anti-people policies” of the Union government.
Counting of votes for the high-stakes Kerala local body elections, widely seen as a semi-final ahead of the Assembly elections scheduled for April–May 2026, began at 8 am on Saturday.
Residents of Siliguri on Thursday witnessed contrasting scenes at the Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) board meeting, chaired by mayor Goutam Deb of the Trinamul Congress.
He also accused the police of enabling convicts in the TP Chandrasekharan murder case to consume alcohol under police escort at a bar.
Satheesan said CPI-M leaders are coming out in support of the Chief Minister's daughter out of fear of Pinarayi Vijayan.
“For the past many years, the structure of development has been top-down but now it has to change to bottom-up where changes need to be made from the grassroot level and eventually create an environment where people can live up to their expectations and choice. The cocktail of corporate politics, crony capitalism, and religious fundamentalism needs to be removed. India needs an inclusive economy, not an exclusive one.”
"The police and the TMC ministers are involved in this harassment of the vice-chancellor. We have seen such crackdowns on universities and their students in Kashmir and elsewhere. This is condemnable.”
“Bidyut was murdered on his way back home. This is the killing of another youth leader. People are being murdered and their bodies are being dumped elsewhere to hide the crime. This is the condition of the state and yet Mamata Banerjee has gone off to the Hills to cool herself while the state continues to burn.”
“In the heat of summer when labourers, students, farmers are protesting on the road against the central government’s erroneous policies that have led to unemployment, inflation and poverty, Mamata Banerjee is on a summer vacation in the hills in Siliguri. She has issued circulars, opposing the two-day strike and proved that her stance is that of the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS)"
“We demand that the police seal the adjacent village in Rampurhat from where the attacks were launched in the Bagtui village under the leadership of TMC, and retrieve all the illegal arms and explosives stored by the TMC goons."
