Follow Us on Google News Thiruvananthapuram, March 11 (IANS) The CPI-M in Kerala appears to have successfully doused the first spark of dissent within its ranks after damage control efforts reined in senior leader A. Padmakumar, who had openly criticised the party’s selection process for the newly formed state committee and secretariat. The 89-member state … Read more
Kolkata, March 8 (IANS) Videos substantiating Jadavpur University (JU) students being hit by the West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu’s car during the ruckus within the university campus on March 1 afternoon have been submitted to the investigating officials, said CPI(M)’s youth leader and the former state secretary of the party student wing Students’ Federation … Read more
Thiruvananthapuram, March 8 (IANS) In a startling revelation that surfaced on Saturday in the report of the Land Revenue Joint Commissioner over the suicide of the Kannur Additional District Magistrate (ADM) Naveen Babu, it appears to be a deep-rooted conspiracy hatched by the accused and former Kannur district panchayat president P.P. Divya, also a top … Read more
Kollam, March 8 (IANS) Former senior CPI-M leader C.P. John launched a scathing attack on Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, accusing him of transforming the CPI-M into an extension of the government and turning the government into a mere arm of the party. John, who parted ways with the CPI-M in the mid-1980s along with his … Read more
Kollam (Kerala), March 6 (IANS) As the CPI-M’s four-day state party conference got underway in Kerala’s Kollam on Thursday, the absence of beleaguered actor-turned-legislator Mukesh, who has been representing the constituency since 2016, became an issue of discussion. Mukesh is going through a tough time after being charge-sheeted in a case of sexual assault and … Read more
Kollam, March 6 (IANS) As the flag of the CPI(M) went up at the four-day state conference in Kerala’s Kollam on Thursday, the discussion in party is who is going to be in and who will be shown the door as the new state committee will run the show for the next three years. Over … Read more
Thiruvananthapuram, March 3 (IANS) The two Communist parties in Kerala, the largest party — the CPI-M and CPI — the second biggest ally in the ruling Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left government, have their own set of rules for tipplers. On Monday, M. V. Govindan, the State CPI-M Secretary, a senior legislator and also a former Excise … Read more
Kolkata, March 1 (IANS) More than heavyweight and popular faces in mainstream and social media, the grassroots-level leaders will be the principal faces of the CPI(M)’s campaign in the West Bengal Assembly elections. The first reflection of this transition in the “faces of the campaign”, party insiders said, will be felt in the mega rally … Read more
Kolkata, Feb 26 (IANS) As the CPI(M) on Tuesday announced the new 80-member committee in West Bengal headed by the party politburo member Md Salim as the state secretary for a second term, questions have started surfacing over the constituents of the panel. The first question is why among the 11 new entrants in the … Read more
