The Opposition Left Front on Thursday alleged that the West Bengal government had 'messed up' the ensuing Panchayat polls and said if the election was not held on time it would be the responsibility of the ruling Trinamool Congress. ...
03:26 AM, Mar 29, 2013
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Sunday accused West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress of threatening and harassing opposition activists ahead of the upcoming panchayat polls in the state. ...
05:32 AM, Mar 25, 2013
Terming India's rate of price rise the highest in the world, the CPM on Sunday blamed the Congress-led UPA government's policies for creating a tendency of suicide among farmers. ...
05:32 PM, Feb 24, 2013
The Left Front on Saturday suggested to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to buy alternative plots from adjoining areas to return land to the farmers of Singur who had refused compensation for their land acquired earlier for an industrial project. ...
04:26 AM, Dec 02, 2012
Kolkata: Facing renewed attack from the Left for her failed bid to table a no confidence motion against the UPA government, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Friday said she would stick to her ideology and work for the people, disregarding criticism. "I will fight it out. I will fight by sticking to my ideology. I may lose a battle of ideology. But I will move forward in the long...
12:31 AM, Nov 24, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is trying to bluff people by her opposition to FDI in multi-brand retail, Left Front Chairman Biman Bose on Monday said and questioned the purpose of her meeting with the US Secretary of State and the US Ambassador to India. "A grave conspiracy is on. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Mamata Banerjee at Writers' Bulding on her way to New Delhi...
01:33 AM, Oct 02, 2012
Kolkata: The Left parties will decide their stand on the presidential poll issue only after the UPA formally announced its candidate. "Left parties are ready. As soon as they will declare the name of the candidate (for the presidential poll), the four parties (CPI(M), CPI, RSP and Forward Bloc) will hold a meeting and decide their stand," CPI(M) Politburo member and the Left Front chairman Biman Bose. Meanwhile, Union Finance...
05:19 PM, Jun 14, 2012
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is facing opposition fire for rubbishing the rape victim's complaints as a conspiracy. ...
03:33 PM, Feb 19, 2012
Kolkata: Expressing doubts over the effectiveness of the Lokpal bill as it excludes the corporate sector, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Biman Bose on Wednesday slammed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for opposing the move to grant constitutional status to the anti-graft ombudsman. "I doubt how much effective this Lokpal will be as it excludes the corporate sector," Bose told. "The Lokpal bill couldn't get the constitutional status because of...
03:33 AM, Dec 29, 2011
Kolkata: The CPI(M) on Saturday demanded that Maoist leader Kishenji's post-mortem report be made public, saying the controversy over his killing could be set at rest only by it. "What really happened will be known only after the post-mortem report is made public. We think it is the West Bengal government's responsibility to make the report public," CPI(M) state secretary Biman Bose told newsmen in Kolkata. Stating that there was...
05:04 PM, Nov 26, 2011
Kolkata: In an unprecedented move, West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan defended Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's storming of a Police station in Kolkata, says she intervened to prevent violence. But the opposition says her action was unbecoming of a chief minister. Mamata virtually stormed into the Bhowanipore police station in Kolkata and demanded release of two Trinamool members who had been arrested for rioting, arson and ransacking a police station on...
06:15 AM, Nov 10, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has raised eyebrows by virtually storming into a police station and demanding the release of party cadre arrested for rioting and arson. She asked policemen at the Bhowanipore police station in Kolkata to release two Trinamool members who had been arrested for rioting, arson and ransacking a police station on Sunday night. Opposition CPM called it a dangerous act by a state chief...
08:09 PM, Nov 09, 2011
Kolkata: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), leader of the alliance voted out of power in West Bengal, has confessed it was unable to produce ideal Communists. "We could not groom ideal Communist leaders and workers," state CPI-M secretary Biman Bose said after an in-depth analysis of the party-led Left Front's electoral defeat in May. The election, which brought the Trinamool Congress to power, ended 34 long years of Communist...
01:53 PM, Oct 05, 2011
Kolkata: CPM general secretary Prakash Karat on Sunday said that the party in West Bengal would have to re-establish connect with the people and to reorganise itself after the drubbing in the state Assembly elections at the hands of Trinamool Congress-Congress combine. The CPM, which had evidently lost touch with the general masses and failed to assess what they wanted, on Sunday decided to "go back to the masses and...
09:24 PM, Jun 05, 2011
Kolkata: For the first time in 34 years, the Left Front on Friday elected Suryakanta Mishra as the Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly. Announcing Mishra's name at a press conference here, Left Front chairman Biman Bose said "our MLAs will have to learn to play the role of the Opposition." Mishra, a CPM MLA from Narayangarh in West Midnapore district since 1991, was health minister in the...
03:25 PM, May 27, 2011
The CPM Politburo, has dismissed Buddhadeb Bhattacharya quitting the Politburo as 'speculation'. ...
11:36 AM, May 16, 2011
Kolkata: "Humbly accepting" the people's verdict in the West Bengal Assembly polls, the Left Front on Friday said it had failed to gauge the mood to the call for 'paribartan' given by the Trinamool Congress. "We did not understand that the people had accepted the slogan of paribartan (change)," Left Front chairman Biman Bose told a joint press conference by Front leaders at the CPI(M) headquarters here. "We have grassroot...
09:28 PM, May 13, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has resigned on Friday following the debacle suffered by the CPM-led ruling Left Front in the Assembly polls. Bhattacharjee was the chief minister of the state for two consecutive terms since May, 2001, taking over the baton from party patriarch Jyoti Basu who was at the helm of affairs in the state since 1977. Meanwhile, the CPM state secretariat met here to review...
01:03 PM, May 13, 2011
Kolkata: As Trinamool Congress on Friday appeared all set for the victory in West Bengal Assembly polls, jubilation erupted at Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's modest residence in Kolkata, while gloom descended on the CPM headquarters where Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was closeted with party leaders. Trinamool Congress workers and supporters sang, danced and smeared each other with green gulal to the shouts of the 'Ma, Mati, Manush' slogan coined...
12:21 PM, May 13, 2011
Kolkata: The ruling Left Front Chairman, Biman Bose on Sautrday said that elections to 38 seats in the fifth phase assembly elections in West Bengal was peaceful except some stray incidents. "We had apprehended trouble in some areas. But apart from some stray incidents, elections were peaceful," Bose told news persons here. "A woman fired some shots from a moving car in front of a polling booth at Vivekananda Vidyalaya...
11:28 AM, May 08, 2011
