The Kerala High Court on Wednesday dismissed the petition filed by Asha Lawrence , daughter of veteran CPI- M leader MM Lawrence, challenging the decision of Ernakulam Government Medical College Principal to donate her father's body to the medical college.
In a surprising move, the LDF candidate for the Palakkad bypolls, Dr P Sarin, has claimed that Congress candidate Shafi Parambil's previous victory in the assembly elections was largely due to support from leftist voters.
Dr. P Sarin, who was expelled from Congress for anti-party activities on Thursday, is set to become the CPI-M-led LDF candidate for the Palakkad Assembly bypoll.
After the sudden demise of the CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury earlier this month, the party will now function through the collective leadership of the exiting politburo with Yechury’s predecessor Prakash Karat acting as the “politburo coordinator.”
A day after he unleashed a blistering attack on Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and the left government, CPI-M severed links with independent MLA from the Nialambur constituency PV Anvar.
I have heard that a petition was filed in 2017, which has named some opposition leaders as they said their assets had gone up disproportionately between 2011 and 2016.
State BJP leaders, however, refused to make any comment on the absence of their legislators on the occasion.
BJP's Om Prakash Mathur, K J Alphons, Ramkumar Verma, and Harshvardhan Singh Dungarpur will retire on RS seats (from Rajasthan).
Further, the Chief Minister has said that the concept of "gawking wages" (often referred as 'noku kooli' in local parlance that means wages collected by loading and unloading workers without doing any work) not be allowed under "any circumstances" as a lot of damage has already been done by this practice.
The burden of exorbitant fuel price on the economy and the people will not go down, the CPI (M) said.
