Tag: Prakash karat

The Saturday Interview | Strong Centre not at cost of states

However, after seven decades of the working of the Constitution which has been instrumental in India becoming and remaining a Parliamentary democracy, the Constitution itself is faced with serious challenges today.

December 14, 2019

CPI (M) will ensure Gandhi’s defeat from Wayanad, says Karat

Karat said the Congress party’s decision to field the Congress president from the Kerala constituency “goes against their own stated commitment to fight the BJP” in the coming elections.

March 31, 2019

Sitaram Yechury re-elected CPI(M) general secretary, party united against BJP

There have been differences between Yechury and Karat camps over the party’s political line, which emerged clearly at the session in Hyderabad.

April 22, 2018

CPM changes poll tactics to avoid a split

The CPI-M party congress in Hyderabad on Friday made a tectonic shift in its tactical line formally opening its doors for “understanding” with the Congress to save the party from a vertical split and adopt a pragmatic approach so as to remain relevant in national politics. Ironically, as the CPI-M shed its doctrinaire approach to …

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April 22, 2018

Prakash Karat opposes secret ballot for voting on amendments

CPI-M senior leader Prakash Karat on Friday said he was not in favour of the secret ballot for voting on the amendments as the party constitution has no such provision

April 20, 2018

Yechury: Draft resolution on poll tie-ups on Friday

The CPI(M) party congress on Thursday began hammering out the differences that arose in their central committee on the issue of having an electoral understanding with the Congress and a final decision would be taken on Friday based on which the political resolution would be worded. “The discussions have begun. As the central committee decided, …

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April 20, 2018

CPI(M) forum to take final call on alliance with Congress

The CPI(M) 22nd congress starting on Wednesday would be one of the most crucial in its history with deep implications on the 2019 general elections as they would ratify on not aligning with the Congress or amend their tactical line and have an understanding with the Congress to defeat the BJP. The meeting is the …

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April 18, 2018

Scamsters conveniently leave India under Modi govt: Prakash Karat

Former CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat has alleged that it has become an established pattern for scamsters to “conveniently leave” the country under the Narendra Modi led government. In his editorial in the latest issue of the ‘Peoples’ Democracy’, he has termed the PNB scam the “most brazen and shocking” case of defrauding in the …

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February 22, 2018

CPI-M votes

The post-Jyoti Basu generation, that now helms the Communist Party of India (Marxist), has agreed to disagree. This is quite the most charitable construct that can be placed on the vote during the party’s Central Committee meeting in Kolkata. Though what it calls the “tactical line” will be finalised at the Hyderabad congress later this …

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January 29, 2018

BJP pushing Hindutva agenda to divert people’s attention: CPI-M

The BJP-led central government is trying to push their Hindutva agenda to divert people’s attention from their failed economic policies and mis-governance, CPI-M leader Prakash Karat said here on Thursday. “People are rejecting the anti-people economic policies of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government. The Narendra Modi government has miserably failed to govern the country. …

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October 12, 2017

Venkaiah accuses Karat of sympathising with stone pelters

Senior BJP leader and Union minister Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday slammed former CPM general secretary Prakash Karat for "finding faults" with the Indian Army and "sympathising" with Kashmiri stone pelters. He also took a strong exception to a recent article by scholar Partha Chatterjee which purportedly compares Army chief Bipin Rawat to General Dyer, infamous for …

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June 6, 2017