More than two years after human feces was mixed into an overhead tank (OHT) supplying water to the Dalit enclave in Vengaivayal village, Pudukottai district, the CB-CID of the Tamil Nadu Police informed the Madras High Court on Friday that the investigation has been completed.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) is gearing up to take a tougher position against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the upcoming Madurai party congress.
Kerala CPI-M secretary M V Govindan said on Wednesday that the new governor should work in harmony with the state government in accordance with the Constitution.
Congress leaders on Sunday came out against the CPI-M for a statement of its polit bureau member A Vijayaraghavan that fundamentalist votes catalysed the back-to-back victory of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency.
The efforts of the NCP (Sarad Pawar faction) Kerala unit to induct Thomas K Thomas in the Pinarayi Vijayan cabinet appear to have failed as the CPI-M state unit and Chief Minister Vijayan decided to retain A K Saseendran, the present NCP nominee in the LDF cabinet.
Allegations of rigging, false voting and deployment of fake polling agents in some booths, levelled against the ruling Trinamul Congress by the CPM, marring the Lok Sabha election in Diamond Harbour (DH) constituency in South 24-Parganas district on Saturday.
The CPM workers and supporters in Arambagh have brought allegations of attack on them by Trinamul Congress-backed goons.
Veteran journalist John Mundakkayam has claimed that the CPI-M-led LDF’s much-hyped "indefinite" siege of the state secretariat protest in August 2013 demanding then Chief Minister Oommen Chandy’s resignation for his alleged involvement in the Solar scam, ended with a compromise deal between the CPI-M and the Congress.
CPM senior leader and state secretary of the CPM Md Salim while addressing an election meeting at Tarakeswar in favour of CPM Arambagh candidate Biplab Moitra lashed out at the TMC for putting up a fake fight against the BJP.
Two parties CPM and Trinamul Congress were planning to hold rallies to garner support from voters during the submission of nomination papers today.
