Chennai: CPI on Saturday said it does not have any plans for alliance with other political parties in Tamil Nadu for the June 27 Rajya Sabha biennial elections.
"Till now there is no such alliance or any such thing. As AIADMK is contesting all five seats, they have expressed their inability to give extra votes", Party's national General Secretary Sudhakar Reddy told reporters here.
"So at the moment, no alliance, no adjustments with other parties... We will wait and see how the events unfold in the next three-four days", he said.
Reddy and senior party leader AB Bardhan had recently met Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in Delhi to seek the ruling AIADMK's support for its Rajya Sabha candidate....
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Hyderabad: Senior CPI leader AB Bardhan on Saturday took exception to some CPI (M) leaders' reported remarks over his party's policies and programmes. Noting that the CPI (M) leaders claimed that his party had no programme or policy, he said, "The CPI continued to work vibrantly on various burning issues and problems of the poor and the deprived." He spoke at the state council meeting of the CPI in Hyderabad...
12:25 AM, May 19, 2013
Terming the change of guard in the Bharatiya Janata Party as a "virtual coup", Communist Party of India leader AB Bardhan on Thursday said that the projection of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the National Democratic Alliance's prime ministerial candidate would create severe repercussion as most of its members were against the idea. ...
08:42 PM, Jan 31, 2013
New Delhi: The CPI on Saturday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to "face Parliament" and said the government must own up responsibility for the huge loss to the nation on the coal block allocation issue. "The Prime Minister must face Parliament especially when it is in session. Disruption does not mean that he would not come to the House," party National Secretary D Raja said in New Delhi. He said...
07:09 PM, Aug 25, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday night to garner support for Pranab Mukherjee and Vice President Hamid Ansari for the President and Vice President poll. He also called CPI leader AB Bardhan seeking his support. Both the parties remain undecided on who they would back. The Trinamool Congress has so far not backed either Pranab or the...
09:35 AM, Jul 12, 2012
Kolkata/New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday night stepped up efforts to drum up support for Hamid Ansari for a second tenure in the post of Vice President, elections to which are scheduled for August 7, as he spoke to Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and CPI leader AB Bardhan. Singh rang up Mamata but there was no official word on what transpired between the two leaders while CPI...
12:26 AM, Jul 12, 2012
Patna: CPI National General Secretary AB Bardhan on Tuesday claimed that a 'Third Front', as a viable alternative to the UPA and NDA, would emerge with like-minded Left parties and some pro-poor regional parties coming together. "The Left parties have been ideologically together even as some pro-poor regional parties will have to come together to be part of the Third Force to crusade for the rights of the poor, farmers...
06:32 PM, Mar 27, 2012
New Delhi: With CPI(M) focusing on Left unity, the CPI said on Sunday it would strive to strengthen Left and democratic unity in the country as both Congress and BJP want be in power by "default". The CPI would strive for a "militant" unity to struggle on issues concerning people's livelihood with non-Congress and non-BJP parties. These political and ideological issues would come up for debate at the 21st Congress...
03:00 PM, Mar 25, 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
New Delhi: Arrest of a scribe in connection with the bombing of an Israeli diplomat's vehicle was condemned on Friday by CPI which alleged that there was no basis for Delhi Police to book him under such serious charges and the move was to please Israel only. Questioning the manner in which Syed Mohammed Ahmed Kazmi was arrested, CPI General Secretary AB Bardhan said, "Government has made the arrest without...
10:09 PM, Mar 09, 2012
Karimnagar: There is no difference between the Congress and BJP as both parties followed anti-people policies and were involved in massive corruption, CPI General Secretary AB Bardhan alleged on Tuesday. Some of the leaders of both Congress and BJP are either in jail or on bail, he charged, addressing a public meeting as part of the CPI's 24th Andhra Pradesh State conference that began in Karimnagar. The incident of three...
01:21 AM, Feb 22, 2012
Patna: The CPI on Monday predicted a hung assembly in Uttar Pradesh after the February polls in the state and said the charisma of AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will not work there. "It doesn't seem that Rahul Gandhi has succeeded in changing the of mood of the people of Uttar Pradesh ... It is not yet apparent that Congress has been able to increase its mass base in the...
06:07 PM, Jan 30, 2012
Hyderabad: The CPI's National Council on Friday resolved to build people's struggles on issues of land, jobs and food by joining hands with all democratic forces. "The main issues we have identified are land, unemployment, food and democratic rights. The main thrust of the resolution is that we should build these struggles." "In order to do so, our party has called for the broadest democratic unity of all sections of...
10:50 PM, Jan 06, 2012
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03:02 PM, Dec 11, 2011
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06:35 PM, Nov 17, 2011
New Delhi: Asserting that enactment of the Lokpal Bill is not enought to check graft, Left leaders on Friday said the country needs laws for poll and land reforms and tackling corruption by corporates. Addressing a protest rally, CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat accused the UPA government of being the "most corrupt" in independent India with "a scam is being unearthed every single day" and found fault with the economic...
03:11 PM, Sep 02, 2011
New Delhi: Making a strong pitch for bringing the Prime Minister under the purview of the Lokpal, Left parties on Wednesday emphasised the need for tackling corruption at the higher level. The Left parties, as well as Civil Society members also stressed on the need to have a strong, effective and independent Lokpal in place soon. CPM general secretary Prakash Karat said the four Bills to constitute Lokpal during the...
11:35 PM, Jul 20, 2011
New Delhi: Hoping that Parliament's Monsoon session will be the "best session" for Opposition to corner the UPA, CPI General Secretary AB Bardhan on Saturday said some "wise" ministers are abandoning the Cabinet like "rats out of sinking ships" before investigators reach their doorsteps. He claimed that the Congress was on the decline and people have lost faith in the UPA which speaks regularly about tackling corruption and price rise...
04:56 PM, Jul 09, 2011
