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| Roles reversed | 20-NOV-09 |
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| How much the world has changed is best exemplified by its attitude towards China. A journalist asked CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury whether India should adopt the Chinese model of development. Yechury was quick to reply, “In 1978, when Mao Zedong said China needs capitalism, everyone criticised him. |
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| No one's home | 17-NOV-09 |
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| Interestingly, the familiar Left faces were not to be seen on various TV channels after the party got wiped out in the West Bengal by-elections. Sitaram Yechury, the most visible face of the CPI(M) on nightly television, was in Madrid participating in the 18th Congress of the Spanish Communist Party while Brinda Karat was in Brazil attending another fraternal party’s conference. Prakash Karat was in London around the same time. |
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| After Cong, CPI(M) goes for austerity | 12-OCT-09 |
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| The Communist Party of India (Marxist) today finalised a plan to rectify the “wrong trends” in the party, under which guidelines were formulated for an austerity drive and to make its ministers more accountable. |
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| Moving out | 08-SEP-09 |
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| With the Left parties, especially the CPI(M) losing a lot of seats in the Lok Sabha, the repercussions are being felt in places you’d never think of. The Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (Sahmat) had its office in a ground floor flat allotted to the CPI(M) in the capital’s Vithalbhai Patel House. But now that the CPI(M) has lost so many seats, its entitlement of government accommodation has also fallen. So, Sahmat has had to move out. It has found refuge in Sitaram Yechury’s official bungalow in Ferozeshah Road. Yechury lives in a private house and has given up his bungalow for party faithfuls. |
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| New Delhi looks to Yechury to reopen talks with Prachanda | 24-AUG-09 |
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| Nepal’s Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has returned to Kathmandu after concluding a five-day trip to India on Saturday, during which he oversaw the initialling of a revised trade treaty and took home the assurance that, at least for the time being, Delhi would not disturb his reign in power. |
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| Honest broker | 12-AUG-09 |
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| A delegation of CPI(M) leaders from Kerala, led by the chief minister VS Achutanandan, went to meet the Prime Minister to protest against the proposed Asean FTA — they argued it would spell the death of cash crops in the state. Sitaram Yechury was drafted to accompany them, not just for his knowledge of economics but also for his good communication skills. It appears Yechury is trusted by the rival camps in the Kerala CPI(M) — that of the chief minister and the other led by state party chief Penarayi Vijayan – and his presence was vital to ensure there was no fight en route to the Prime Minister’s office. |
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| Left MPs write to PM on gas reserves | 03-AUG-09 |
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| The Left MPs today asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to see that natural gas reserves, including the Krishna-Godavari (K-G) basin, were not appropriated as family property, saying the natural asset and the interests of the economy could not be “held hostage” to the benevolence and mercy of some “private players”. |
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| Pranab's cat nap | 12-JUL-09 |
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| What is it that gives Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee seemingly inexhaustible energy at 73? He wakes up at 6am to do his puja but rarely goes to bed before 1am. He shared the secret recently — Sitaram Yechury once advised him to take a break any time during the day, “especially when you think you are on the brink of collapse”. Mukherjee says the advice has worked. When he feels he can’t stand up any more, he retires for about 60 minutes for a cat nap in an ante room in his office. |
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| CPI(M) Polit Bureau meets ahead of CC meeting | 11-JUL-09 |
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| The CPI(M) Polit Bureau met here today ahead of the crucial Central Committee meeting which will try to find an end to the "disunity" in its Kerala unit where its top state leaders V S Achuthanandan and Pinarayi Vijayan are on a war path. |
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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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| Congress asks Bengal govt to restore law & order or quit | 18-JUN-09 |
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| Fishing in troubled waters of West Bengal’s Lalgarh, the Congress, for the first time, demanded the Left Front government should step down “if they can’t restore the law and order” in Bengal. As violence against the CPI(M) in Bengal’s tribal belt of Lalgarh intensifies, the Congress today jumped into action trying to score political points. |
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| 'CPI(M) lost touch with ground reality' | 25-MAY-09 |
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| How does the Communist Party of India-Marxist [CPI(M)] explain its election debacle and where does the responsibility lie, Karan Thapar asks CPI(M) politburo member and Rajya Sabha MP Sitaram Yechury in a TV programme, ‘Devil’s Advocate’. |
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| Left leaders meet to review poll outcome | 17-MAY-09 |
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| After one of their worst ever performances in the general elections, leaders of the Left parties met here today and decided to work as a "responsible" opposition in Parliament. |
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