West Bengal 2024 Lok Sabha Polls: The key contest for this year's Lok Sabha elections, due on May 13 here, is between Trinamool Congress' (TMC) Shatrugan Sinha, Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) SS Ahluwalia and Communist Party of India (Marxist)’s (CPI[M]) Jahanara Khan.
The top court directs Election Commission to publish information shared by SBI by March 15.
The CPI(M) in Kerala is drifting away from both the people and its principles, like how it did in other states, and shrank into oblivion
The finance minister said the budget was prepared with the objective of “nava Kerala nirmanam” (new Kerala development) with the aim of accelerating growth and ensuring environmental conservation, and sustainability in development and social justice.
Arya Rajendran was the youngest candidate the Communist Party of India (Marxist) had fielded during the recently concluded Kerala local body polls and she will become the youngest mayor of India once she assumes office.
A Vijayaraghavan will replace Kodiyeri Balakrishnan as CPI(M) Kerala secretary
He commended the efforts of the Left government in Kerala in controlling the number of coronavirus cases, adding that the Centre "refuses to learn" from the Kerala model
The reply came soon after the Press Information Bureau (PIB) tweeted a press release with details of the advisory.
Advising state governments on how they can prevent the implementation of NPR, Yechury reminded them it is their job to depute officials who would collect the required information, which they can refuse to do
"Our main aim is to defeat the BJP, increase the strength of the CPI(M) and the Left in Parliament and form an alternative secular government," CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury said.
Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Sitaram Yechury: His party's aim was to fight and defeat the "communal and anti-people" policies of the BJP government at the Centre.
Addressing a public meeting at District Board ground here, Yechury said BJP was apprehensive that resentment of people against economic decisions might take shape of a national agitation against the government.
The Centre's Citizenship Amendment Bill (2016) for granting citizenship to non-Muslim migrants was a "serious attempt to undermine the NRC process", Karat said.
The movement aims to protest against the "anti-people policies of the state and the central governments," as stated by senior CPI(M) leader Shyamal Chakraborty said.
West Bengal on Thursday wrapped up its final phase of voting where 25 constituencies had gone to poll. The poll results will come out on May 19. But this is going to be after Tamil Nadu goes to polls on May 16.
The proposed anti-rape bill which seeks to hand down stringent punishment for crimes against women, including rape and acid attack will be tabled in Lok Sabha on Tuesday.
Uttar Pradesh chief minister-designate and Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav is expected to meet senior Left Front leaders in New Delhi on Tuesday, adding to speculation of the formation of a Third Front.
Dr. SY Quraishi, Chief Election Commissioner, tells Anuradha SenGupta of CNBC-TV18 in Beautiful People that citizen participation in the nation has increased tremendously and that the people are more pro-active than earlier.