The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on January 19, 2017.THE CPI(M) strongly opposes the clearance given by the union cabinet for disinvestment of shares in the five public sector general insurance companies. The decision is to disinvest by 25 percent shares in each of these companies.By this step, the government is weakening the nationalised general insurance companies which have been running well.

THE CPI(M) has said that the Law Commission seeking opinion of political parties on the viability of a uniform civil code is ill-timed and smacks of a politically motivated agenda.     In a letter to Law Commission Chairman Justice B S Chauhan on December 17, 2016, Party general secretary Sitaram Yechury said, “At the outset, it is to be stated that the CPI(M) is constrained to observe that the exercise undertaken by the Law Commission to ‘engage’ in a ‘healthy conversation’ about the ‘viability of a uniform civil code’ smacks of a politically motivated agenda.

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on January 3, 2017. THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) welcomes the majority verdict of the seven-member constitution bench of the Supreme Court which held that the electoral process is a secular activity and religion can have no place in such an activity.

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on December 19.THE appointment of the new chief of Army Staff has been done bypassing the established convention of the senior most general assuming the post.  The Modi government’s departure from this precedent has raised questions about the intent and motivation of the government.  The Indian army should not be subject to any political interference.  

THE Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) notes with concern that the government is planning to take the ordinance route to amend the Payment of Wages Act for allowing business and industrial establishments to pay salaries through cheques or by using electronic modes.