Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat and his party colleague, politburo member Sitaram Yechury, will leave for Kolkata Thursday morning in view of deteriorating health of senior party leader Jyoti Basu, said party sources here.
Party politburo member Brinda Karat, who is also a Rajya Sabha MP, has already left for Kolkata, sources [...]
Thiruvanathapuram, Dec 29 (IANS) Kerala’s Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan is angry. Why is the National Investigating Agency (NIA), which has not taken over cases registered in connection with the bombings in Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Surat, showing special interest in Kerala cases, he asked after the NIA announced plans to take over further investigation of the [...]
New Delhi, Dec 26 (ANI) : The Communist Party of India (Marxist), politburo meeting began here on Saturday to take stock of the political situation in the country over the past three months.
CPM would also discuss the possibility of a change [...]
New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) If 2009 was bad, 2010 would be ‘bloodier’ if the government goes ahead with its planned offensive against the Maoist jungle bases, a top guerrilla leader has vowed while warning of more retaliatory violence in the months to come.
‘Home Minister P. Chidambaram is a liar. At one level he says [...]
Kolkata, Dec 12 (IANS) Maoists Saturday claimed responsibility for ambushing a passenger train in Malda in West Bengal that left a railway policeman dead, police said.
Seven Maoists boarded the 605 Up Katihar-Malda train in the guise of passengers and attacked the Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel between Samsi and Milangarh stations in Malda district Friday [...]
New Delhi, Dec 4(ANI): Leaders of Communist Party of India- Marxists (CPI-M) met Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Friday and claimed to have presented “evidence” of the “nexus” between Maoists and Trinamool Congress (TMC).
Addressing the media in the national capital, Politburo member of [...]
New Delhi, Nov 21 (IANS) The financial bailout packages by various governments are not radical enough to pull the world out of the economic downturn, but would only help to enlarge the profit avenues of corporate houses, according to communist leaders from around the world.
Over $14 trillion have been given as bailout packages to corporates [...]
New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Communist leaders from around the world met here Friday to discuss how to ‘intensify popular struggles’.
The 11th International Meeting of the Communist and Workers Parties is jointly hosted by the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the Communist Party of India (CPI).
Among those attending the gathering are Oscar Martinez Cordoves [...]
New Delhi, Nov. 18 (ANI): CPI (M) Politburo member Sitaram Yechury on Wednesday questioned the UPA Government’s intention on bringing the ordinance on sugarcane pricing on the eve of the Winter Session of the Parliament.
“The fact of the matter is that the ordinance that the [...]
New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) Communist leaders from 60 countries will attend the 11th Communist and Workers Parties’ International Meeting, to be held here Nov 20-22, a senior communist leader said Monday.
The theme of the meeting is ‘The international capitalist crisis, the workers’ and peoples’ struggle, the alternatives and the role of the communist and [...]
New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) All leaders of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), particularly its politburo member Sitaram Yechury, have a close association with Maoists, Trinamool Congress chief and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has alleged.
It was because of Yechury’s proximity to top Maoist leaders in Nepal that the first United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government [...]
Kolkata, Nov 10 (IANS) Asserting that they were ready for a ceasefire, the Maoists Tuesday night said the central government should come out with a written proposal for dialogue, and rebutted the government’s demand for end to violence as a pre-requisite for talks.
Regretting that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and union Home Minister P. Chidambaram have [...]
Kolkata, Nov 5 (IANS) The centre Thursday rushed additional paramilitary forces to troubled West Midnapore district to tackle the Maoists, even as the left wing ultras said they were prepared for talks provided the troopers were withdrawn and a ceasefire declared in seven states.
Six companies of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) would be deputed for [...]
New Delhi, Nov.4 (ANI): Top Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy on Wednesday approached the Delhi High Court to challenge trial court’s order allowing the police to conduct a narco-analysis test on him.
On Oct.31, the trial court had [...]
Kolkata, Nov 2 (IANS) Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Sitaram Yechury Monday ridiculed Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee saying no one with knowledge of history would have equated his party with the Maoists.
‘If somebody knows history, has read history, he or she cannot say this,’ Yechury told mediapersons here.
He recalled that the Maoists had [...]
New Delhi / Kolkata, Oct 28 (ANI): Communist Party of India (Marxist) Politburo member Sitaram Yechhury on Wednesday accused Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee of hobnobbing with the rebels in the train hijacking incident of Wednesday.
Yechury told media said the needle of suspicion pointed at her and [...]
Kolkata, Oct 27 (IANS) The driver of the Delhi-Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express was kidnapped by a group of armed miscreants in West Midnapore district of West Bengal Tuesday, police said.
According to police, the incident occurred close to Jhargam station.
Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) politburo member Koteshawar Rao has denied his outfit’s role in the abduction.
Bangalore, Oct 26 (IANS) Communist Party of India (Marxist) politburo member Sitaram Yechury Monday said state and central governments should not go in for any compromise with Maoists.
The Maoists’ violence was a serious law and order problem and his party would support strong action to curb it, Yechury told reporters here on the margins of [...]
New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) The alleged irregularity in allotting wireless radio spectrum to telecommunication firms, which is said to have caused a Rs.22,000-crore loss to the public exchequer, has given Indian opposition parties a pitch to target the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA), with many demanding the resignation of Communications Minister A. Raja.
The main [...]
New Delhi, Oct 23 (ANI): Reacting to the result of the Assembly polls that were held in three states, M.K. Pandhe, Politburo member of the Communist Party of India – Marxists (CPI-M), on Friday said that money played a pivotal role in elections this time.
The Marxist party won only one seat in Maharashtra.
“Maharashtra result [...]
New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) The Left Front government in West Bengal is not willing to hold talks with the Maoists unless they abjure violence, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo member Biman Bose said Sunday.
‘How can we talk with the Maoists who have declared war against the state and its people?’ Bose countered to [...]
Ranchi, Oct 6 (ANI): Naxal sympathizers are questioning killing of Francis Indwar by the Maoists and ask whether beheading of the unarmed Inspector of the Special Branch of Jharkhand Police is in tune with the revolutionary aims of the Naxalism.
The Maoists kidnapped and killed Indwar not in a brave fight, but in an act [...]
Ranchi, Oct 3(ANI): Maoist rebels active in Jharkhand on Saturday threatened to carry out more attacks on Government establishments, politicians and security forces if their top leaders, presently under detention were not released.
The Maoists [...]
New Delhi, Oct.2 (ANI): The Maoists are showing no signs of relenting or backing off from their campaign to secure the release of their key leaders Kobad Ghandy and Chakradhar Mahato.
The Maoists have said that they intend to disrupt normal life in [...]
New Delhi, Sept 30 (ANI): The detention of Communist Party of India (Maoist) politburo member, Kobad Gandhy, who was admitted to the G B Pant Hospital on Wednesday after he complained of being unwell, is being seen as a major setback [...]
On Board Air India One, Sep 23 (IANS) The government is yet to take a firm view on using special forces against the Maoist rebels whom Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called the ‘gravest threat’ to the country’s internal security.
According to a top official, a major problem the government was facing while dealing with leftwing [...]
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) The Left parties have okayed the alliance with the Samajwadi Party (SP), Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S), Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) and some regional parties for the Oct 13 Maharashtra assembly polls, a senior communist leader said Sunday.
‘We okayed the alliance formed at the state-level. The central leadership did not play any [...]
New Delhi, Sep.13 (ANI): CPI(M) Politburo member Sitaram Yechury on Sunday said that Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee will remain West Bengal’s Chief Minister, laying to rest speculation that he would be replaced.
“There is no such thought of removing him or that he should give up, or anything of that sort, on the agenda. He had fallen [...]
Madurai (TN), Sep 12 (ANI): CPI (M) politburo member Brinda Karat was arrested on Saturday at a village in Tamil Nadu.
According to sources Karat was arrested with some All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) activists when they were on their way to a village in Madurai district.
Sources added that she was arrested because she was [...]
New Delhi, Sep 5 (ANI): The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo on Saturday discussed possible strategies for the forthcoming assembly elections in three states at the two-day meet being held in the national capital.
Senior leader and politburo member of CPI-M Sitaram [...]
