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
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
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: 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: Blaming the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government's faulty policies for the poor and farmers' plight, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Sunday said only the Left parties had alternative economic policies and would work to rally anti-Congress and anti-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) left and democratic forces. In a strong attack on the UPA, Karat said it has "established a new record in corruption", farmers were committing suicides across...
03:46 AM, Feb 20, 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: 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
New Delhi: The CPI-M said on Saturday the electoral reverses in West Bengal and Kerala have made it imperative to expand its influence in other parts of the country, focus on building Left unity and project a Left and democratic alternative to counter the Congress and the BJP. "In the current situation when the Left has suffered serious electoral reverses, and when West Bengal, the strongest base of the party...
05:51 PM, Jan 28, 2012
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