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Clashes after Trinamool leader shot dead by CPI-M workers
Kolkata, Sep 7 – A local leader of the Trinamool Congress was shot dead by alleged Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) activists in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, sparking a clash in which five people, including a woman, were injured, police said. The incident took place at Chandipur village of Nanoor block of the district, when local Trinamool leader Illiyas Sheikh alias Ballav Sheikh was shot dead by CPI-M activists while he was going to a nearby paddy field, police said. Following the killing, Trinamool activists attacked the CPI-M cadres and a clash broke out between the two groups.
Kishenji calls for defeating CPI-M candidates
Kolkata, Sep 6 – Maoist leader Koteshwar Rao alias Kishenji Monday called for ensuring the defeat of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) candidates in the Jungalmahal areas of West Bengal in next year’s assembly polls. In an audio message, the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) politburo member Kishenji said: ‘The CPI-M has to be defeated in all the 42 seats of Jungalmahal as it has created an atmosphere of violence and anarchy in the region’. Kishenji also accused the central government and the CPI-M of colluding to ensure the central forces helped the Marxists in setting up armed camps in the Jungalmahal areas(forested stretches in the three districts of West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia).
CPI-M’s days are numbered, thunders Rahul
Kolkata, Sep 6 – Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi declared Monday at his first ever rally here that the days of West Bengal’s ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) were numbered. Recalling his recent visit to Russia, Gandhi told thousands at the Shahid Minar maidan to thunderous applause: ‘In Russia, the Communist regime came to end suddenly one day. It will happen here (West Bengal) too.’ On a day’s visit to Kolkata, Gandhi denounced the Left Front government.
Trinamool leaders meet police chief on CPI-M ‘terror camps’
Kolkata, Sep 4 – A team of Trinamool Congress leaders Saturday met the West Bengal police chief Naparajit Mukherjee to apprise him of the ‘terror camps’ being run by the Communist party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) activists in West Bengal’s Maoist-affected areas. TMC leaders Partha Chatterjee and Mukul Roy accompanied by retired police officers and now party workers Rajpal Singh and H.A. Safi submitted a letter including a detailed list of 93 camps run by the CPI-M armed cadres in Jungalmahal (Maoist affected forested areas of West Midnapore, Purulia and Bankura) and parts of Burdwan, Hooghly and Birbhum districts.
CPI-M opposes MPs hiking their salary
New Delhi, Aug 17 – The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) said Tuesday that it was opposed to MPs taking a decision on their own salary hike and a system should be put in place, as in the case of government servants, for such decisions. CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury said the government had promised to look into the demand of setting up a mechanism way back in 2006 for deciding hike in salaries of MPs but had not taken any decision yet. ‘The CPI-M has opposed the concept that MPs should decide their salaries.
CPI demands cancellation of Bayyaram mining lease
Hyderabad, Aug 12 – Demanding cancellation of the mining lease to a company allegedly owned by a son-in-law of former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Communist Party of India (CPI) Thursday laid siege to Khammam district. Police arrested CPI state secretary K.
CPI-M admits it lost support due to ’shortcomings’
Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh), Aug 9 – In an effort at soul-searching, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) has admitted that people have moved away from the Left Front due to ‘certain shortcomings’ and vowed to re-build the links. In the political resolution adopted at the extended meeting of the central committee meeting here Monday, the party said it was in the process of correcting the shortcomings. ‘The Left Front is determined to reforge links with the people who have moved away due to certain shortcomings that have been identified and are in the process of being corrected,’ it said.
Regain lost faith of people, Karat urges CPI-M-led governments
Vijayawada, Aug 7 – Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat Saturday asked the party-led governments in West Bengal and Kerala to do their ‘utmost’ to regain the lost faith of the people. Inaugurating the extended central committee meeting of the party here, Karat said the CPI-M has carefully looked into the causes of the poll reversals it suffered in West Bengal and Kerala and ‘identified the steps to be taken to remedy the situation’. ‘We should do our utmost so that people of West Bengal and Kerala renew their faith in the party and the Left-led alliances there,’ he said.
CPI-M’s youth, student wings protest CWG corruption
Agartala, Aug 5 – Activists of the youth and students wings of Tripura’s ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Thursday began a week-long protest here against corruption in the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CGOC). The activists of Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) and Students Federation of India (SFI) undertook the sit-in at around 60 places across the state. ‘Thousands of crores of public money were drained off for individual interest in CWG-related work payments, contracts and leasing of sports equipment among others,’ DYFI Tripura unit secretary Amal Chakraborty told reporters.
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