The CPI-M leadership on Monday accused the West Bengal government of not taking any concrete action against those who are responsible for "spreading communal hatred" and "communal tension" in the state.
The DYFI, youth wing of the CPI-M staged a rally demanding employment opportunities of local jobless people and contractors in the modernisation project work of IISCO steel plant in Burnpur, on the same day Trinamul Congress councillors of Asansol Municipal Corporation also agitated on the same issue and submitted a memorandum to the company management.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has accused the ruling BJP government in Madhya Pradesh of communalising the festivals of the country and dividing the people on such amicable occasions on religious lines.
Senior Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala on Monday strongly criticized the CPI-M’s draft resolution for its 24th Party Congress, which states that the BJP and RSS cannot be labeled as fascist.
The CPI-M has apparently revised its position on Modi Government. The CPI-M in its draft political resolution states that the Modi Government cannot be labelled as a fascist regime.
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.
He even said that if things continue the way they are, the chief minister would be the last Communist chief minister of Kerala.
Asha Lawrence, daughter of MM Lawrence has approached the Kerala High Court aggrieved by the decision of her siblings and the CPI-M to hand over her father's body to the Government Medical College hospital, Kalamassery, Ernakulam for study purposes of medical college students.
