CPM meeting to choose between 'lifeline and dead-end'The fact that the Karat camp has stuck to its position even after the Hyderabad Party Congress okayed an ‘understanding’ — the word Marxist...
Political parties collect Rs 1,500 crore in 5 Assembly pollsThe figures are cumulative for five national and 16 regional parties put together during the polls to the assemblies of Goa, Manipur, Punja...
Open to ally with like-minded parties in Punjab: Amarinder SinghPunjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh today said that his party was open to forge an alliance with "like-minded secular parties" for the 20...
Four Left parties to launch joint struggle against Punjab governmentThe parties staged demonstrations at all district headquarters in Punjab, the leaders of the four parties said in a joint statement here to...
Wrong decisions, overconfidence, lack of leadership: a suicidal Left is quite the Murphy's law textbookIn the course of five years, the fortunes of India's Left parties have come crashing down around their ears. Sure, in electoral terms, the ...
2014 Lok Sabha polls: Congress in talks with CPI, Punjab People’s Party for alliancePunjab PCC chief PS Bajwa has initiated talks with PPP and CPI after a nod from the high command.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa likely to skip Left-sponsored convention on October 30While CPM was keen on inviting Jagan Mohan Reddy’s party, the plan was dropped after the pro-Telangana CPI said it would not share a platfo...
Punjab Congress wants to ally with Left partiesThe Punjab Congress is rooting for an alliance with the Left and other secular forces ahead of 2014 parliamentary polls.
- CPM seeks to forge Left Democratic Alliance
A string of electoral defeats in the past two years has forced the CPM to ring in major changes at the party congress in Kozihkode.
- 3rd front ‘leader’ to contest just 5/80 in 5 states
After failing miserably in polls,CPM reconciled to modest political goal.
- Inflation: Left distancing from Congress
The potential of runaway prices to inflict collateral damage on parties that support the UPA government saw the CPM performing a ruthless d...
- On eve of UP polls, CPM plans to corner Centre over price rise
With less than a week left for the first phase of the Uttar Pradesh elections, the Manmohan Singh government seems to be coming under fresh...
- Cong can’t see beyond Amethi, Rae Bareli: CPI
As Uttar Pradesh seems to be heading for a six-cornered contest, the Congress is being blamed by CPI for ‘splitting the anti-Mulayam vote’.
- CPM top brass to discuss party's growth
The political situation in four election-bound states and the progress made in spreading the party’s network in Hindi-speaking and new area...
- CPI to be in anti-SP camp, CPM undecided
CPM and CPI will be in different tents if CPM has an electoral tie-up with Mulayam Singh. This became clear on Wednesday when the CPI forma...
- Jyoti Basu offers to quit politburo
Veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu has once again offered to step down from the CPM politburo, citing age and ill health, a day ahead of the...
- Communists add fuel to price hike protests
After the BJP, it was the turn of the Left and non-NDA parties like the Samajwadi Party, Telugu Desam and Asom Gana Parishad to hit the str...