Trinamul Govt Releasing Huge Advts to Manipulate Public Perception

IT was an advanced ‘April Fool’ for the readers of newspapers in Bengal on 01st March. The two principal newspapers of ABP group Anandabazar Patrika and The Telegraph published 22 advertisements of West Bengal government on that very day!

PUNJAB: CPI(M) Organises Satyagraha, Jail Bharo Agitation

ON February 28, the Ludhiana district committee of the CPI(M) organised a Satyagraha and Jail Bharo agitation in Ludhiana city on its 15 point charter of demands. The action took place in response to the call of the CPI(M) Central Committee. Before the agitators courted arrest, they organised a big rally at Chattar Singh Park. More than 1,000 satyagrahis then marched towards the deputy commissioner’s office. They offered themselves for arrest but it was the police that retreated.

KERALA: Seminar on 12 Years of Gujarat Massacre

WHILE Ashok Mochi handed over a water bottle to Kutbuddin Ansari, the latter smilingly accepted it and gave a red rose to Mochi. And then the audience gave them a standing ovation the moment when these two persons, belonging to a state which was ripped apart by genocide 12 years back, shared the same stage in Thalipparamba on March 3, 2014, to express their mutual trust and love. This was a noble occasion, characterised by a meeting of Kutbuddin Ansari and Ashok Mochi, two faces of the communal pogrom in Gujarat in the year 2002.

Tripura Left Front Announces Candidate List

TRIPURA Left Front, on March 5, has announced the names of the candidates for the two parliamentary constituencies. LF convener Khagen Das announced that the LF in its meeting on March 5, has unanimously decided on the names of the LF supported CPI(M) candidates for Tripura West (general) and Tripura East (ST) seats. From Tripura West (general) seat LF candidate will be CPI(M) state committee member since 2012 and CITU state general secretary Sankar Prasad Dutta.

West Bengal Left Front Releases List of Candidates

LOKSABHA ELECTION - 2014Name of the Candidates Constituency No. & NamePartyNameRemarks1. COOCHBEHAR (SC)AIFBDipak Kumar RoyNew2. ALIPURDUAR (ST)RSPMonahar Tirkey 3. JALPAIGURI (SC)CPI(M)Mahendra Kumar Roy 4. DARJEELINGCPI(M)Saman Pathak 5. RAIGANJCPI(M)Md.

First List of Seats to be Contested by the CPI(M) in the Lok Sabha Elections

First List of Seats to be Contested by the CPI(M) in the Lok Sabha Elections

Kerala Raksha Yatra Scores Unprecedented Success

THE state of Kerala recently witnessed an unprecedented and unparalleled political upsurge in all the 140 assembly segments, during the course of the Kerala Raksha March which started from Vayalar on February 1 and culminated in a rally on the Kozhikode beach on February 26. “Secular India and Developed Kerala” was the slogan of the yatra.

Central Committee Communique

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) met in New Delhi on March 1 & 2, 2014. It has issued the following statement on March 2

No Ordinances

Utilise 16th General Elections to Create a Better India

THE schedule for the 16th general elections has been announced. These will be the longest ever general elections planned in the country barring those disrupted and delayed due to exigencies such as prime minister Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination or the Kargil war. Spread over five weeks beginning April 7 and ending May 12 – these elections will be held in nine phases, the largest number so far.

CPI(M) Provides Homes for Riot Victims in Muzaffarnagar

THE terrible communal attacks that occurred in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts of Western Uttar Pradesh forced thousands of poor, working class Muslim families into an existence of misery, hunger, cold, sickness and complete insecurity. What are euphemistically called ‘tented camps’ lack both the tents and the semblance of order that these words imply. In open fields and empty ditches, people stuck poles into the ground and hung plastic sheets on them and then crept under them with their families.

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