Coimbatore: CPI(M) Politburo member Brinda Karat on Thursday came down heavily on Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and some other UPA allies terming them as 'hyprocrites' on various issues, including the petrol price hike. If Mamata was really concerned about the well-being of the people, why was she not withdrawing support to the Centre, Karat asked on the sidelines of a demonstration organised by CPI-M's...
12:20 AM, May 25, 2012
New Delhi: With the steepest ever hike in petrol prices, the Left parties on Wednesday strongly opposed the move and called upon their units to immediately launch "powerful" protest actions all over the country. "It is a cruel blow on people who are already suffering from severe price rise. The Left parties have called upon all party units to immediately organise powerful protest actions," CPI-M General Secretary Prakash Karat said....
08:09 PM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Left Front met in the national capital on Wednesday to decide on their choice of a Presidential candidate. But they have decided to wait for the UPA government to announce their candidate first before taking a decision on who to support. Presidential hopeful PA Sangma met CPM Politburo leader Prakash Karat on Tuesday to gather support but the CPI says supporting Sangma at this stage is tantamount...
03:25 PM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: Factional fight in the CPI(M)'s Kerala unit flared up yet again on Sunday with the Leader of the Opposition VS Achuthanandan threatening to quit. In a letter addressed to party supremo Prakash Karat, Achuthanandan asked for a leadership change in the state. He also asserted that "criminalisation of politics" could not be accepted. The move came against the backdrop of a long-drawn rivalry between Achuthanandan and the State...
03:21 PM, May 20, 2012
Panihati: CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat on Sunday predicted a hike in the prices of petrol and diesel by this month end. "The Centre may hike the prices of petrol and diesel in the last week of this month after the current parliament session is over," the senior CPI(M) leader told a party rally at Panihati in North 24 paraganas district in West Bengal. In a dig at the Trinamool...
05:37 AM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Left parties on Friday held preliminary discussions on Presidential elections and decided to consult with "secular opposition" parties before taking a final stand on the candidate and met. The parties favoured a wide agreement on a candidate for the President's election. CPI(M) leaders Prakash Karat and Sitaram Yechury met Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav. Yechury later met NCP chief Sharad Pawar separately discussing the Presidential poll issue....
07:35 PM, May 04, 2012
New Delhi: The CPM, which had played a crucial role in setting up the Indian Coffee Houses across the country, is now turning a new leaf by coming up with a cool cafe in the capital " the May Day Cafe. Touted as the 'country's first left wing cafe', the cafe would be launched on May Day, thereby adding to its symbolic value. It would be run by CPM's publishing...
09:45 AM, May 01, 2012
CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat on Tuesday lauded the efforts put in by the External Affairs Ministry over the issue. ...
02:29 PM, Apr 24, 2012
Kozhikode: Prakash Karat was on Monday re-elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M). Karat, 68, has headed the CPI-M since 2005. He said a new politburo and a central committee was also elected on Monday. ...
02:14 PM, Apr 09, 2012
New Delhi: Little-known Bollywood actress Nupur Mehta has decided to send a legal notice to 'The Sunday Times' for accusing her of being involved in match-fixing and has also kept open the possibility of filing for civil and criminal defamation against the British daily. "We will be sending a legal notice to the newspaper, and see what kind of response we get. We will then be moving ahead and filing...
10:44 AM, Mar 27, 2012
Jammu: Opposing any strategic alliance between India and the US, the CPI(M) on Monday alleged that America was pursuing its imperialistic designs of aggressive expansionist policy in West and South Asia. "The US has also been intervening in our domestic affairs and we have to organise people to restrict government from entering into strategic alliance with the US which could be harmful to the interests of the country," party general...
02:22 AM, Mar 26, 2012
Jammu: Keeping in view the "changed" security scenario in Jammu and Kashmir, the Armed Forces Special Powers Act should be revoked, CPI(M) on Sunday said and batted for maximum autonomy for the state. "Our party is for restoration of maximum autonomy based on special status and regional autonomies to three regions of the state. Besides, security forces be made accountable and AFSPA be revoked as a result of changed security...
01:51 AM, Mar 26, 2012
New Delhi: Even as Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs started their dharna outside Parliament demanding a full roll-back of the railway fares and a financial package for West Bengal, CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat lashed out at the party for "putting the Railways in the ICU". "It is the TMC who has put the Railways in the ICU. The first question Mamata has to answer is regarding the statement made by Dinesh...
10:59 AM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh chief minister-designate and Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav is expected to meet senior Left Front leaders in New Delhi on Tuesday, adding to speculation of the formation of a Third Front. Akhilesh is scheduled to go to the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI(M)) office to invite party General Secretary Prakash Karat for his swearing-in ceremony in Lucknow on March 15. Akhilesh will also meet Communist Party...
11:03 AM, Mar 13, 2012
Kolkata: Less than a fortnight after drawing flak for her disparaging comments on the Park Street rape victim, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday squarely blamed the Left for the deteriorating law and order condition in West Bengal. She claimed that the 30-year-old woman allegedly raped by a gang of armed robbers on Sunday too was a set-up. Mamata also hit out at the Left over the recent spate of...
08:33 PM, Feb 28, 2012
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