Election in Tripura peaceful; Congress, CPI(M) allege misconduct

Election in Tripura peaceful; Congress, CPI(M) allege misconduct

Voters wait in a queue at a polling station to cast their votes for the first phase of Lok Sabha Polls, on April 19, 2024 | Photo Credit: ANI Elections for the West Tripura Lok Sabha constituency and by-elections for the Ramnagar assembly constituency were held in the first phase of the national elections on … Read more

Kerala veterinary student death illustrates free rein given to cadres of CPI(M): Prashant Bhushan

Kerala veterinary student death illustrates free rein given to cadres of CPI(M): Prashant Bhushan

Supreme Court lawyer and human rights activist Prashant Bhushan. File | Photo Credit: PTI Supreme Court lawyer and human rights activist Prashant Bhushan on March 9 alleged that the death of J. Sidharth, a second-year student of the College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences at Pookode in Wayanad, illustrated the kind of ‘gundagiri’ (hooliganism) involving … Read more

CPI(M) in Kerala says defections to BJP have enfeebled Congress, eroded public’s trust in Opposition

CPI(M) in Kerala says defections to BJP have enfeebled Congress, eroded public’s trust in Opposition

CPI(M) Kerala State secretary M.V. Govindan (file) | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT CPI(M) Kerala State secretary M.V. Govindan has said defections to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have “enfeebled” the Congress and caused the public’s trust in the Opposition party in Kerala to plummet steeply. Addressing a press conference at the AKG Centre in Thiruvananthapuram … Read more

CPI(M) to hold ‘Hawkers Rayabaram’ to highlight woes on Feb. 19

CPI(M) to hold ‘Hawkers Rayabaram’ to highlight woes on Feb. 19

: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) would conduct ‘Hawkers Rayabaram’ near the Collectorate in Vijayawada on February 19 (Monday). Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, CPI(M) State secretariat member Ch. Babu Rao and others said that the State was collecting ₹50 crore illegally from the hawkers and street vendors in the city. The … Read more

CPI(M) in Kerala says Congress’s ambivalence about attending Ayodhya Ram temple consecration will subvert secular ideal of INDIA bloc

CPI(M) in Kerala says Congress’s ambivalence about attending Ayodhya Ram temple consecration will subvert secular ideal of INDIA bloc

CPI(M) Kerala secretary M.V. Govindan (file) | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT A meeting of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] State secretariat on December 29 (Friday) reportedly drew a bleak political inference that the Congress’s alleged ambivalence about attending the consecration of the Ram temple at Ayodhya would subvert the anti-Hindutva politics that lay at … Read more

CPI(M) to join protest against eviction drive in Idukki

CPI(M) to join protest against eviction drive in Idukki

Even as the Kerala government is going ahead with the anti-encroachment drive in Munnar and other parts of Idukki district, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] district leadership here is preparing for an open protest against the drive led by a Revenue department task force. The protest will be launched under the banner of … Read more

CPI(M) demands construction on public toilets in city

CPI(M) demands construction on public toilets in city

M.B. Sajjan, district secretary, Communist Party of India (Marxist), a addressing press conference in Kalaburagi on Friday. | Photo Credit: ARUN KULKARNI The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has demanded that the City Corporation increase the number of public toilets in Kalaburagi. CPI(M) district secretary M.B. Sajjan, addressing a press conference here on Friday, said … Read more

Sole agenda of CPI(M) is to defeat BJP in the 2024 elections, says Raghavulu

Sole agenda of CPI(M) is to defeat BJP in the 2024 elections, says Raghavulu

CPI-M Polit Bureau Member BV Raghavulu | Photo Credit: V RAJU The main agenda before  the CPI(M) is to prevent the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from coming to power again in the 2024 general elections, says its Polit Bureau member B.V. Raghavulu. “The nation’s future will be in danger if Prime Minister Narendra Modi comes … Read more

CPI(M) drops move to wrest KSWCFC chairmanship from Kerala Congress (B)

CPI(M) drops move to wrest KSWCFC chairmanship from Kerala Congress (B)

The ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] has reportedly walked back from its decision to wrest the chairmanship of the Kerala State Welfare Corporation for Forward Communities (KSWCFC) from its Left Democratic Front (LDF) ally, the Kerala Congress (B). KC(B) leader K. B. Ganesh Kumar said the decision to remove the party’s nominee, K.G. … Read more

Centre has slashed the price of LPG cylinder only with an eye on elections, says CPI(M)

Centre has slashed the price of LPG cylinder only with an eye on elections, says CPI(M)

The Communist Party of India (M) State secretary V. Srinivasa Rao | Photo Credit: KVS Giri Activists of the CPI(M) staged a protest against the spiralling prices of essential commodities, increase in power tariffs, and rise in unemployment, here on Wednesday. Addressing a gathering, CPI(M) State secretary V. Srinivasa Rao said that the Central government … Read more