Mamata Banerjee urges peace. (Above) Torched cycles outside a CPM office on the way to her rally. Pictures by Pradip SanyalMamata Banerjee today said she would not have to press for President’s rule if the “CPM’s terror” continued — “they would bring it on themselves”.However, not far from where the Trinamul Congress chief spoke, her supporters chased with swords and pistols CPM women holding a street-side...
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KOLKATA: By-election results in WestBengal seem to clearly indicate that the Left Front’s uninterrupted rulesince 1977 is nearing its end. In a clear sign of the shape of things to come,the Trinamool-Congress combine on Tuesday decimated CPM winning eight out of the10 assembly seats in West Bengal. CPM failed to win even a single assembly seat.For a jubilant Trinamool, it was a clean sweep, when it...
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MIDNAPORE:Suspected Maoists gunned down a member of Gana Pratirodh Committee, ananti-Maoist resistance front, in Nakra Achra, Belpahari, on Saturday afternoon.Madhab Mudi (38) used to be a CPM worker, but left the partyrecently."Madhab had left CPM but continued to be a Gana PratirodhCommittee member," said a villager, who added that four armed youths on twomotorbikes pumped bullets into Mudi's chest...
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HALDIA:After Hooghly's Khanakul, turf war between CPM and Trinamool reared its uglyhead in East Midnapore's Haldia, where CPM's citadel is crumbling fast.Pushed back from its unchallenged position in neighbouring Nandigramand Khejuri, CPM leaders on Monday found themselves cornered in their ownbackyard. A CPM party office was burnt down late on Sunday night. Inretaliation, CPM workers hurled stones...
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TARAKESWAR:A CPM leader was humiliated and paraded at his village in Hooghly on Saturdayevening. CPM's Haripal zonal committee member Arun Mishra, a resident ofDarhata, was accused of corruption.On Saturday evening, a largenumber of people, allegedly backed by Trinamool Congress, stormed into his homeand dragged him out. Mishra's head was shaved and whey poured over his head. Hewas then paraded in...
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Continuing with its impressive performance in the Lok Sabha polls, theCongress-led UDF on Tuesday retained all three assembly seats where bypolls wereheld, routing the ruling CPM-led LDF.The LDF suffered a blow inpolitically sensitive Kannur, where Congress candidate and former CPM MP A PAbdullakutty emerged victorious by a margin of 12,000 votes over CPM's M VJayarajan.Abdullakutty, whorepresented...
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Naxals have allegedly killed one CPM worker, and kidnapped three others in West Bengal.The body of CPM worker Tapan Mudi was found in Sharpura forest near Binpur in West Midnapore. Maoists are said to be behind the killing.Three other CPM workers have also been abducted from Goaltore, allegedly by the Maoists only.The...
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KOLKATA:CPM goons allegedly killed a Trinamool Congress activist in Mandirbazar, South24-Parganas, on Thursday.Benoy Haldar (50), a resident of Bijoyganjand a functionary of a Trinamool-controlled van operators' union, was strangledto death. However, local CPM leaders have rubbished Trinamool's allegation thatHaldar was murdered by CPM men.On Thursday. Haldar was dragged outof his motor van as he drove...
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Tamluk, Nov. 4: A Trinamul mob torched three CPM offices and ransacked another today in the first such attack in Left bastion Haldia.It followed a call by local MP Subhendu Adhikari to “make life miserable for Lakshman Seth”, who used to be the area’s CPM strongman till the party’s successive electoral losses culminated in his own defeat.Three of the offices burnt were of the CPM labour arm Citu, of...
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Mamata Banerjee today said her party’s sweep in the bypolls was “a victory of peace and development over state-sponsored terror and misrule”.From Delhi, the Trinamul Congress chief said: “It’s time for the CPM government to go as they have lost the right to rule.”Asked about the CPM drawing a blank, she said: “We contested seven of the 10 Assembly seats and won all seven because of the people’s overwhelming...
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