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Karat, Yechury to leave for Kolkata Thursday

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 [...]

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Terror probe is an indictment of ruling Left Front (Letter from Kerala)

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 [...]

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Two day CPM politburo begins in New Delhi

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 [...]

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2010 will be bloodier if offensive is launched: Maoist leader Kishanji (IANS Interview)

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 [...]

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Maoists claim credit for raiding train

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 [...]

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CPI (M) leaders meet PM over violence in West Bengal

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 [...]

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Stop stimulus, use money to help poor: World’s Communists

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 [...]

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World Communist leaders meet in Delhi

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 [...]

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CPI (M) slams Govt for bringing sugarcane ordinance on the eve of new Parliament session

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 [...]

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Communist leaders from 60 nations to attend Delhi conference

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 [...]

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Yechury has close links with Maoists: Mamata

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 [...]

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Centre should write proposal for talks: top Maoist leader

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 [...]

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Maoists offer conditional talks, more forces rushed to Lalgarh

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 [...]

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Kobad Ghandy appeals against narco test

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 [...]

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Yechury takes on Mamata for equating Maoists with Marxists

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 [...]

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Left Front accuses Mamata of hobnobbing with Maoists

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 [...]

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Rajdhani Express driver abducted in West Bengal

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.

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CPI(M) opposes any compromise with Maoists

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 [...]

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Opposition guns for Raja over spectrum allotment

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 [...]

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Money played an important role in Assembly polls, says Communist leader

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 [...]

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No talks with Maoists till they shun violence: CPI-M leader

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 [...]

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Naxal sympathizers question killing of Francis Indwar

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 [...]

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Maoists warn more attacks in Jharkhand, demand release of their leaders

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 [...]

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Desperate Maoists call for shutdown on Oct.3

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 [...]

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Maoist leader Gandhy admitted to hospital, rebels see his arrest as a major setback

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 [...]

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Government still undecided on special forces against Maoists

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 [...]

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Left leadership okayed Maharashtra alliance: Pandhe

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 [...]

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Yechury says Bhattacharjee will remain West Bengal Chief Minister

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 [...]

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CPI (M) politburo member Brinda Karat arrested in Tamil Nadu

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 [...]

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CPI (M) charts out strategy for the forthcoming assembly elections

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 [...]

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