AFTER having recently visited Pakistan to attend an international conference, Muhammad Yousuf Tarigami, the CPI(M)’s Jammu & Kashmir state secretary, said on March 25 that there was a consensus among participants that there is need to initiate a purposeful process which could reduce the barriers between India and Pakistan.

ON Friday, March 28, 2014, the Supreme Court of India pronounced its judgement on a gangrape case in Birbhum district of West Bengal. The court verdict indicted the TMC controlled state government, saying that the “state has failed in protecting such serious violation of a victim’s fundamental right.”
The judgement also noted the absence of measures “for security and safety of the victim and her family.”

Fourth List of CPI(M) Candidates 

  With this the total number of CPI(M) candidates announced so far is 94.

THE CPI(M) Telangana state committee has declared candidates for 3 Lok Sabha seats and 17 assembly constituencies. Md Afroze Samina, former chairperson of Khammam municipality and AIDWA central committee member is the Party’s candidate for Khammam Lok Sabha constituency. Nandyala Narsimha Reddy, CPI(M) Nalgonda district committee secretary is the candidate for Nalgonda Lok Sabha constituency and Cherupally Sitaramulu, CPI(M) state secretariat member and former MLC is the Party candidate for Bhuvanagiri Lok Sabha constituency.

WHILE the Maharashtra state committee of the CPI(M) had initially decided to contest three Lok Sabha seats in the state, it later decided to fight a fourth one as well. This is the constituency of Hingoli which is spread over parts of the Vidarbha region (Yavatmal district) and Marathwada region (Nanded and Hingoli districts). Brief introductory notes on the CPI(M) nominees in these four seats follow.