Bengal Assembly Poll: Left Front Releases First List of Candidates

THE Left Front released its first list of candidates on March 7 for the ensuing assembly poll in West Bengal. The first list included 116 candidates; among them 16 are women and 25 candidates are coming from the religious minority communities. Sixty candidates are in the fray for the first time. Left Front chairman Biman Basu announced the names at a press conference. Bengal will witness six-phase polling on seven days from April 4 to May 5.Basu said that the formation of a greater front is under process to implement the call to oust TMC and save Bengal.

Towards Assembly Polls

ELECTIONS to the five state assemblies of Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamilnadu and West Bengal have been announced. Polling will begin on April 4 and the process will continue till May 16. Counting for all the states will be held on May 19. These elections are important not only because it will determine who will form the state governments there, but it will also have a bearing on the future course of national politics.The BJP alliance which has a comfortable majority in the Lok Sabha has not been able to maintain the momentum.

AIKS Calls for Peasant Protest Week from April 8-14

THE union budget 2016-17 is a serious rightward shift to further fortify the domination of monopoly trade and agri-business interests over agro-processing and marketing sector, intensifying the neo-liberal reforms which are the root cause of the current acute crisis in agriculture. The proposals of 100 percent FDI through the FIPB- Foreign Investment Promotion Board route on food products and processing and to start e-platform by amending APMC Act for marketing of agro produce are two obvious examples in support of big capital and MNCs.The farmers are reeling under acute agrarian crisis ma

Rightwing Attack on Protests over JNU Issue, Rohith Suicide

GOONS of BJP, RSS and other rightwing forces launched attack on protests and demonstrations, organised by Left and democratic forces in several parts of the country, over the Jawaharlal Nehru University issue and the suicide by dalit scholar Rohith Vemula at Hyderabad Central University.

Pakistan Terror Strike: One among Many

JUST weeks after the terror strike in Pathankot, Pakistan was hit by an even more deadly attack. Before that, in the same fortnight, there were major terror attacks in Istanbul, Jakarta and Ouagadougou. Terrorists, belonging to a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, attacked the Bacha Khan University campus in Charsadda near the city of Peshawar in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province. The university is named after Abdul Ghaffar Khan, who was a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi.

The Week in Parliament

THE Budget Session of Parliament began on February 23 with President Pranab Mukherjee’s address to a joint session of both the Houses. After the President's address, Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha met and made obituary references. Both the Houses were adjourned after laying the President's address on the table of the respective House.

CPI(M) Submits Memo to Chief Election Commissioner on Bengal Polls

A two member delegation of the CPI(M) consisting of general secretary Sitaram Yechury and central secretariat member Nilotpal Basu met the chief election commissioner on March 2, to draw attention of the commission to some serious concerns with regard to the forthcoming elections to the West Bengal legislative assembly.

‘This is An Attack on India’s Secular, Democratic Constitution’

CPI(M) leader in Rajya Sabha Sitaram Yechury initiated the discussion on the situation arising in central institutions of higher education with specific reference to Jawaharlal Nehru University and University of Hyderabad. Below we publish the edited excerpts of his speech in the upper house of parliament on February 25.I AM initiating this discussion with a deep sense of anguish, anger and anxiety of what is going to happen to our country.

UNION BUDGET 2016-17

Rich in Rhetoric; Poor in Substance, says CITU Union Budget 2016–17 presented by the union finance minister Arun Jaitley is nothing but a grand exercise in rhetoric, totally devoid of anything substantial that provides relief to the common people and workers. The finance minister sought to camouflage his government’s drive to provide further benefits to the corporate sector by resorting to high sounding words.

Development for Divide and Disrupt

NARENDRA Modi was nominated by Mohan Bhagwat, the RSS Supremo, as prime ministerial candidate for the Lok Sabha elections of 2014 and Modi launched his election campaign on the political platform of his Gujarat model of Development and during every election meeting, he promised his audience that vote for BJP under the leadership of Modi will lead to economic growth for entire India.

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