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CPI releases manifesto; promises to scrap CAA, 50% cap on reservation

The Communist Party of India (CPI) released its manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections on Saturday, promising to scrap the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, remove the 50 per cent cap on reservations for SCs, STs and OBCs, and enhance the daily wage under MGNREGA to Rs 700. The Left party called for the defeat of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to save secular democracy. It said the 10-year BJP rule has proven to be a disaster for the country. If elected to power, the CPI promised to scrap the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, remove the 50 per cent cap on reservations, conduct a caste census, introduce taxation measures such as wealth tax and inheritance tax, increase corporate tax, introduce reservation in the private sector, and raise the daily wage under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) Rs 700. "General elections for the 18th Lok Sabha are going to be very crucial and critical for our secular democratic republic, its future and to our ...

Electoral bonds: CPI(M) hails SC verdict, calls for reforms in funding

Welcoming the Supreme Court judgment striking down electoral bonds, the CPI(M) on Thursday said it was an "unscrupulous scheme designed to help the ruling party" and it was now essential to introduce reforms for political and electoral funding. In a widely anticipated judgement ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the Supreme Court annulled the electoral bonds scheme for political funding, saying it violates the Constitutional right to freedom of speech and expression as well as the right to information. "The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) hails the historic judgment of the Supreme Court, which has struck down the electoral bonds scheme as unconstitutional. By this verdict, this unscrupulous scheme designed to finance the ruling party by anonymous corporate donors has been completely scrapped," the CPI(M) said in a statement. The party had declared at the outset itself that it will not accept electoral bonds as this scheme legalizes corruption, the statement read, adding that the CPI(M) ha

One Nation, One Election against idea of diversity: CPI MP Binoy Viswam

The government has decided to call a Special Session of Parliament from September 18-22 where it is speculated that the government could bring a bill for this proposal to take effect

NIA arrests fourth accused in CPI (Maoist) revival case in Bihar's Magadh

The NIA has arrested one person in the CPI (Maoist) terror funding case in connection with efforts being made to revive the banned outfit in the Magadh zone of Bihar, an agency official said on Monday. The arrested accused, Anandi Paswan (46), has more than five criminal cases registered against him at various police stations of Bihar, a spokesperson for the National Investigation Agency (NIA) said. The NIA said raids conducted on the premises of Paswan, a resident of Nirakhpur village in the Kinjar area of Arwal district, led to the seizure of illegal arms and ammunition on February 12 last year. Paswan is the fourth person to be arrested in the case, registered in 2021, related to the terror financing network being jointly operated by CPI (Maoist) cadres and overground workers (OGWs) in the Magadh region. The NIA had earlier nabbed Tarun Kumar, Pradyuman Sharma and Abhinav alias Gaurav. The agency chargesheeted two accused in the case on January 20. "NIA investigations so far ha

Kerala CPI(M) probes CITU leader's spouse buying Rs 50L MINI Cooper

After a video of a brand new Rs 5 million-worth MINI Cooper purchased by the wife of a top CITU leader went viral, the CPI(M) launched a probe

The Kerala Story row: The mise-en-scene of propaganda meets probity

NOT CURTAINS YET: Facing accusations of a controlled narrative, The Kerala Story is unlikely to see 'The End' any time soon. And this is just the trailer...

EC grants national party status to AAP; Trinamool, NCP, CPI lose tag

The Election Commission on Monday recognised the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as a national party and withdrew the national party status of the All India Trinamool Congress, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Communist Party of India (CPI). In an order issued on Monday, the Commission also revoked the state party status granted to RLD in Uttar Pradesh, BRS in Andhra Pradesh, PDA in Manipur, PMK in Puducherry, RSP in West Bengal and MPC in Mizoram. The Commission said the AAP has been named as a national party based on its electoral performance in four states -- Delhi, Goa, Punjab and Gujarat. The Arvind Kejriwal-led party is in power in Delhi and Punjab. The poll panel said that the status of NCP, CPI and the Trinamool Congress as national political parties would be withdrawn. The BJP, Congress, CPI(M), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), National People's Party (NPP) and the AAP are now national parties. The Commission said that NCP and Trinamool Congress will be recognised as state parti

Showcasing 'alternative to BJP' main agenda at CPI's national congress

The 24th national congress of the Communist Party of India (CPI) begins on Friday in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh with a call to dislodge the (Narendra) Modi government and save the country by showcasing an alternative to the BJP. Given their dominance in the current political scenario, the CPI wants the regional parties to come onto a single platform and defeat the BJP. "Presenting an alternative to the BJP will be the main agenda of our discussions at the party congress. We need to save the country from the BJP and unless we dislodge the Modi regime, there is no salvation," CPI general secretary D Raja remarked on the eve of the congress. It is after a gap of about three decades that Vijayawada once a bastion of the Left parties is playing host to the 97-year-old party's national congress. The five-day congress will begin with a mass rally and meeting on October 14, followed by the national executive and the national council meetings, according to the time table released by the .

Sambasiva Rao beats Venkat Reddy to become new CPI Telangana secretary

Kunamneni Sambasiva Rao has been elected as Telangana state secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI)

Only BJP has future in India; Cong, Communist party declining: Amit Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said only the BJP has a future in the country while both the Congress and the Communist party are in the process of decline

Kerala CPI too brings in age restrictions for party office-bearers

The Kerala unit of the CPI has decided to bring in age restrictions for office-bearers in the party.

DYFI national prez A A Rahim to be CPI(M) candidate for Rajya Sabha seat

CPI(M) state committee member and national president of DYFI, A A Rahim, will be the party's candidate for one of the three Rajya Sabha seats falling vacant from the southern state next month

Tightens grip on dragon: Xi cements status with historic resolution

The approval of the landmark document was announced in a communique Thursday

Three-day Central Committee meeting of CPI(M) gets underway in Delhi

The three-day Central Committee meeting of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) got underway in Delhi on Friday

Need to save country's democracy, Kanhaiya says after joining Congress

CPI leader Kanhaiya Kumar who has joined the Congress said that he has joined the party to save the country's democracy.

Madras High Court quashes criminal cases against CPI, CPI(M) leaders

Madras HC quashed criminal cases pending before a lower court against K Balakrishnan and R Mutharasan, general secretaries of the Tamil Nadu unit of the CPI(M) and CPI respectively and two others.

In Kerala, all political parties are for women MLAs, but only in principle

In large part, there are only a few women MLAs because political parties give a small number of tickets to women to contest elections

Puducherry: CPI earmarked Thattanchavady seat; accord inked with Congress

The Communist Party of India (CPI), a constituent of the Congress-led Secular Democratic Alliance, was earmarked the Thattanchavady segment here to field its candidate in the April 6 Assembly poll

Once a Maoist bastion, West Bengal's Jhargram district is now a tourist hub

Back in 2010-11, this region was a hotbed of political turbulence and a stronghold of the militant group, Communist Party of India (Maoist)

Left can't grow by harping on TMC anti-incumbency: CPI (ML) Gen Secretary

Bhattacharya talks about the recent Bihar election, the Left's strategy in West Bengal, and its future