| TMC creating lawlessness in West Bengal: CPI(M) | 06-NOV-09 |
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| The ruling Left Front in West Bengal today took a swipe at Union Home Minister P Chidambaram for telling the state government to ensure law and order, saying it was the Trinamool Congress which was responsible for "lawlessness". |
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| Biman says decision taken locally | 02-OCT-09 |
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| Left Front Chairman Biman Bose said in a press release that the Front would support the Congress board in the Siliguri Municipal Corporation from outside. He ruled out the possibility of joining the board. |
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| Wipro, Infy rejected alternative land: WB govt | 17-SEP-09 |
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| Days after scrapping the proposed IT township project at Rajarhat, the West Bengal government today said it had suggested alternative land to Infosys and Wipro, a proposal rejected by the IT majors. |
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| Congress-TC wins Siliguri civic polls after 27 years | 16-SEP-09 |
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| Trouble deepened for the ruling Left Front in West Bengal as it lost the Siliguri municipality to the Trinamool Congress-Congress combine after 27 years. The Opposition alliance bagged 29 seats of the 47-member board, while one seat went to an independent candidate. The Left Front won 17 seats. |
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| Achuthanandan, Vijayan slug it out at Politburo meeting | 05-JUL-09 |
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| Kerala Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan and his bete noire, CPI(M) Kerala unit General Secretary Pinarai Vijayan, were at loggerheads at the special Politburo meeting of the party in New Delhi today even as senior leader Prakash Karat called for a way to end the crisis in the party’s state unit. The meeting had been convened mainly to resolve the severe infighting in the unit. The party won just four out of 20 seats in the state in the Lok Sabha polls. |
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| Lesson after loss: Bengal CPI(M) going back to basics | 15-JUN-09 |
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| In the hour of crisis, the ruling CPI(M) in West Bengal is trying to go back to the basics. The party’s state committee, following its two-day meeting to review the party’s debacle in the recent Lok Sabha polls, realised that after being in power for the last 32 years the party had lost touch with the masses. |
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| Left trains gun on Mamata in West Bengal | 11-MAY-09 |
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| If one goes by the tone of campaign by the ruling Left Front in West Bengal, it would leave no one in doubt that its guns are trained on one single woman: Mamata Banerjee, the leader of the state’s main Opposition Trinamool Congress. |
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| Left counters Congress attack on development | 04-MAY-09 |
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| To Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s olive branch that the Left parties were his friends, the Left Front reacted sharply questioning this premise. The Left parties also described as ‘motivated’ the Congress charge that the red brigade had done nothing for development. |
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| My time | 10-MAR-09 |
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| Just before CPI(M)’s Central Committee meeting, West Bengal General Secretary and Politbureau member Biman Bose realised he had left his watch at a comrade’s place. A young party whole-timer offered his wristwatch to Bose, but the latter insisted he wanted only his watch. A comrade was despatched to a bungalow in Ashoka Road to get Bose’s watch. |
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| One day's salary | 05-MAR-09 |
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| It is election time and all political parties are in need of money. While most big parties hope to get donations form companies, the CPI(M) has appealed to its members to donate money for the elections. Party politburo member and West Bengal general secretary Biman Bose’s letter on this issue, published in party mouthpiece Ganashakti, says: “Comrades, in this election time we need more money. Other parties have the backing of big companies but we depend entirely on your support. Kindly donate your one day’s salary or any amount of your choice to us. |
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| CPI(M) plans more programmes | 10-NOV-08 |
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| The Communist Party of India (Marxist) discussed the political situation in the state in its eighth state committee meeting on November 5 and 6.
CPI (M) leaders alleged later in a statement that the |
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| Singur battle lost, not the industry war: CM | 06-OCT-08 |
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| We have lost the Singur battle but not the war to get industries to the state, said West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee here today even as CPI(M) leaders said Tata Motors should give |
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