The demand for early assemblyelections in sections of the Left Front in the aftermath of the CPIM’sdismal show at the hustings is likely to stir a hornet’s nest at scheduledLeft Front meeting on Tuesday.This is because the CPIMdoesn’t want the issue be raised in the meeting even though some Frontpartners including some CPIM heavyweights are determined to do so.Itis well known that West Bengal fisheries...
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Trinamool Congress chief andrailway minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday predicted early assembly electionsin West Bengal and asked her party workers to hold their patience for some moremonths to see the end of CPIM’s misrule.Mamata’sobservation on early assembly elections in the state is significant as she isnow an important minister of the Union cabinet and an integral part of the UPAgovernment....
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an interesting development, mainstream political parties in West Bengalthe CPIM, Trinamool Congress and Congress -- have fielded close relatives oftheir former MLAs and MPs in at least four of the 10 assembly seats whereby-elections are scheduled on November 7. The mission is clearly to leverageexisting goodwill and extract maximum politicalmileage.Among the candidatesis the CPIM’s Ramala Chakraborty...
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After the drubbing in thelast Lok Sabha elections, the CPIM and CPI - the two frontline communist partiesin India - are in the throes of a monumental crisis in their home turf of WestBengal. Matters have been compounded further by their unresolved differences onkey ideological and political issues.But regardless of theirdifferences, the CPIM and CPI are holding a three-day international conclave ofcommunist...
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KOLKATA:The West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC) on Monday rejected veteranMarxist Jyoti Basu’s plea to Congress supporters and sympathisers to votefor Left Front nominees during the November 7 by-elections in the 10 assemblyseats in the state.Here’s what WBPCC working president PradipBhattacharjee, who is campaigning for Congress candidates in Malda and acrossnorth Bengal, had to say. "The...
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Tight security arrangements have been put in place ahead of the 7th Nov bypoll to the Kannur assembly constituency in the wake of alleged anomalies in fresh voters list as the hectic electioneering came to a close last evening.The rival CPI (M) led Left Democratic Front and Congress controlled United Democratic Front are engaged in one of the keenest contests ever witnessed in the constituency where...
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KOLKATA:At a time when West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was holding ameeting at Writers’ Buildings on Monday to review the law and ordersituation in Maoist-infested Lalgarh, a new war zone was opened at Khanakul inHooghly district when CPIM and Trinamool Congress activists confronted eachother with bombs and firearms.Even as Mr Bhattacharjee reviewed theLalgarh situation at a high-level...
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has ordered a high-level inquiry into the incident of slogan raising in support of Naxalites by the supporters of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on the first day of the party's five-day convention which began here yesterday.Official sources said Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan held a meeting with State Home Minister Umashankar Gupta last night and ordered a high-level inquiry...
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has won all three which went to the by-polls in Kerala. The party MLAs won the seats with handsome margins showing that people are not happy with government functioning. In UP however the BSP has come up with the strongest performance.won in Alappuzha, Ernakulam and Kannur seats for which the by-polls were held in the state.In Alapphuza, A A Shukur defeated G Krishnaprasad of the Communist Party of...
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The Trinamool Congress and Congress combine is leading in seven out of the ten assembly seats where by-polls were held.According to reports available from different counting centres, the ruling Left Front is leading in two seats and an Independent in one constituency as counting was taken up at 8 am.Sujit Basu of Trinamool Congress is leading by 4000 votes over his nearest CPI(M) rival Ramala Chakrabarty,...
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