Kolkata: In an apparent reference to the CPI(M)'s accusation that her government lacked a clear policy in various sectors, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday asked the party not to indulge in negative criticism and warned it against resorting to bandhs. "Those who are jealous take to negative criticism. I ask them to be positive. We are being accused of not having any vision. Those who themselves have...
11:24 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Allahabad: Criticising Union Minister Salman Khurshid for his "defiant stance" against the Election Commission, CPI(M) leader Prakash Karat on Sunday said "people occupying responsible positions must not talk and behave irresponsibly". "We do not approve of Khurshid's defiant stance. He is a union minister and people occupying responsible posts must not talk and behave irresponsibly," Karat, who was here to address election meetings in support of candidates fielded by his...
04:57 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Kollam: Hitting back at CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan for his remarks against him and the party, CK Chandrappan, CPI state secretary has said that leaders should use decent and respectable language. His comment comes a day after Vijayan at the valedictory function of the CPM meet the other day criticised Chandrappan calling his 'event management' comment as petty and that no one ought to be envious because of the...
11:40 AM, Feb 12, 2012
Kolkata: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Saturday accused the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal of pursuing "undemocratic and anti-people" policies after it decided to revoke subsidies to the transport corporations. "What kind of a policy is this? It is not necessary that all corporations will have to make profit... but now the government is saying that they will not give any subsidies to the corporations,"...
12:07 AM, Feb 12, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Former Kerala chief minister V.S. Achuthandan will remain the opposition leader in the Kerala assembly, Marxist leader Pinarayi Vijayan said on Friday. Accusing the media of "propagating baseless lies" about the Communist Party of India-Marxist's (CPM) Kerala meet, state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan denied that Achuthanandan wanted to step down. "One thing I can say is that Achuthanandan is the tallest leader we have and he is not going to...
05:05 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Veteran Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Pinarayi Vijayan's uninterrupted reign at the top continues, with him being re-elected on Friday as secretary of the party's Kerala unit for the fourth successive time. The election was a mere formality at the last day of the 20th edition of the CPI-M state party conference. It was in 1998, when as minister of power in the E.K. Nayanar government, Vijayan first...
03:16 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala cabinet on Wednesday gave the nod for the formation of a new company, based on private-public participation, to set up a state of the art personal rapid transit system, which is increasingly popular abroad and now is to be implemented in major India cities. Speaking to reporters in Thiruvananthapuram after the cabinet meeting, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said that the entire Cabinet witnessed a presentation on this...
02:14 AM, Feb 09, 2012
Krishnagar (WB): The debt burden bequeathed by the erstwhile Left Front government in West Bengal could be more than Rs 2.3 lakh crore, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday hinted. "The debt of Rs 2.3 lakh crore is to our knowledge only, but the amount can be more, which we do not know, as many papers are missing," Mamata said while launching some local trains here in Nadia district. Painting...
07:30 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The CPM in Kerala on Sunday said toppling the Congress-led UDF Government by wooing its partners was not on the party's agenda but it was of the view that the Oommen Chandy Ministry would "naturally collapse" as it had been getting isolated from the people. "We have made it clear right from the day the results of the assembly polls were declared last year that the party or the...
10:09 PM, Feb 05, 2012
Khammam: CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat on Saturday accused Congress ruled states of being involved in "massive corruption". "Resources of this country running into lakhs and crores of rupees are being looted. Wherever there is a Congress government like in Andhra Pradesh, we see corruption in all walks of life," Karat said at a public meeting organised by the party. CPI(M) would try to work with other democratic and secular...
06:36 AM, Feb 05, 2012
New Delhi: Opposition on Saturday said the trial court verdict granting relief to Home Minister P Chidambaram would not change the "corrupt" image of the government, and the recent court orders on the 2G scam shall have "far reaching" implications on its collective functioning. "This verdict will not change the corrupt image of the government or the intensity of our campaign...The issue of political accountability of Chidambaram remains alive...We will...
06:31 PM, Feb 04, 2012
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday alleged that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh did not call her during her anti-land acquisition agitation at Singur because he did not want to annoy the CPM. "During my fast on the Singur land issue, the Prime Minister did not call me. Perhaps he did not want to annoy the CPM," Mamata remarked during an interview aired on three Bengali news channels. Saying...
07:59 PM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Saturday said electoral reverses in West Bengal and Kerala had made it imperative for it to expand its influence in other parts and project a Left and democratic alternative to defeat the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Party general secretary Prakash Karat, who released the draft political resolution ahead of the 20th Congress in April, said the party needs...
01:14 AM, Jan 29, 2012
Imphal: Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh on Saturday said he is expecting Congress to win a minimum of 35 seats in the 60-member Assembly, voting for which continues peacefully across the state. "I am expecting that the Congress party would secure around 45 seats. But 35 is the minimum number we are winning," Okram Ibobi Singh told IANS after casting his vote. Along with his legislator wife Landhoni Devi,...
12:02 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Ludhiana: CPI(M) on Saturday said there was no scope any understanding or alliance with the Congress unless the UPA changed its economic policies. "Unless and until they (UPA) make amendments in the present economic policies (there can be no such accord)," CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechury said in reply to a question from reporters. He said if the UPA wanted any understanding with the Left, the Congress-led alliance would...
12:50 AM, Jan 28, 2012
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