He doesn’t sport a moustache though it is the norm for men in Tamil Nadu. For Communist party of India (CPI) veteran R Nallakannu, it is not because of any aversion but due to the torture in prison on being arrested in the Tirunelveli Conspiracy case foisted against CPI leaders in 1949.
In conversation with ‘ The Statesman Talk,’ Rajya Sabha MP P Sandosh Kumar stated that CPI is the first political party to condemn the recent developments in Bangladesh and says it stands with the genuine rights of minorities there. He also emphasised that the party firmly supports rights of the minorities.
A day after Congress and Muslim League leaders alleged that CPI-M polit bureau member A Vijayaraghavan sought to provoke majority communalism through his statement
The Kerala High Court on Wednesday dismissed the appeal filed by Asha Lawrence objecting to giving her father and veteran CPI-M leader M M Lawrence's body to Ernakulam Medical College.
In a major security lapse, SFI workers stormed the Kerala University campus while Kerala Governor Khan was attending a seminar at the Senate Hall.
CPI(ML) Liberation has called for support for the Left and Democratic Alliance in the upcoming Assembly by-elections, which will be held 10 July.
Binoy Viswam said that the Left families cannot tolerate the knowledge that the people who pretend to be protectors of the movement are agents of the underworld.
Even as Tamil Nadu is witnessing a spike in honour killings and anti-Dalit atrocities, Chief Minister MK Stalin has refused to accede to the demand from the ruling DMK’s allies to bring in a special legislation to curb them on the ground that effective implementation of existing penal laws was enough and would serve the purpose.
The Labour Bureau, an attached office under the ministry, said that the All-India CPI-IW for April increased by 0.5 points and stood at 139.4.
The counting of votes for other seats is going on in the state which went to the Lok Sabha polls in two phases on April 19 and April 26.
