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West Bengal tops in Facebook political ad spend among poll-bound states

Besides West Bengal, Assembly elections will be held in three other states Assam, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and in the Union Territory of Puducherry

Mamata vs Suvendu: West Bengal prepares for battle royale in Nandigram

Banerjee's stronghold is the 71,000 minority votes. So the task is to cut into the remaining that the BJP is hoping to get a fair share of

P C Chacko quits Cong ahead of Kerala Assembly polls; Isaac dropped

Chacko, who was a former working committee member of the Congress, is the second senior leader to quit the national party after Jyotiraditya Scindia.

Poriborton without change

Mamata faces off against former disciple-turned-defector Adhikari in a very different contest in Nandigram. It's not land acquisition but an ego clash that has acquired, tragically, communal overtones

In fight for Bengal's vote, debate on state's economy goes beyond Singur

With Assembly elections looming, the Trinamool Congress is highlighting its industry-friendly tag as the Bharatiya Janata Party vows to transform the state into an investment paradise

Troubles are mounting for Tripura chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb

The discontent, simmering since 2019, surfaced when seven legislators - all former Congressmen - reached Delhi in October 2020 and met J P Nadda, BJP president

21-year-old Arya Rajendran becomes Mayor of Thiruvananthapuram

Arya Rajendran, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) councilor from Mudavanmugal in Thiruvananthapuram was sworn in as the new Mayor of the city corporation

Bengal's cycle of violence

Changing the nature of the political game won't be easy

Ahead of Kerala Assembly polls, CM Vijayan faces multiple challenges

In the four years the Vijayan government has been in office, Kerala has had to battle cyclones (Ockhi and now, possibly, Nivar), two floods and two epidemiological disasters - Nipah and Covid-19

One step back

Kerala's Ordinance is as regressive as 'love jihad' laws

New education policy 'unilateral' drive to destroy Indian education: CPI(M)

The party alleged that Parliament has been completely bypassed in the process of forming the policy

Trump's agenda is to prise open our economy for US corp interests: CPI(M)

It also said the US agenda will "adversely affect" the interests of the Indian farmers, agriculture, particularly the dairy and poultry sectors

'Selling family silver': CP(M) supports employees' strike against BPCL sale

The party said the strategic disinvestment of public sector enterprises was like 'selling the family silver to meet daily expenditure inevitably ruining the family'

Fighting 'brute' majority, opposition considers forming 'people's forums'

Opposition leaders had accused the government of ignoring its demands to discuss key issues facing the country, including on economy, during the Budget session of Parliament

Survival of the smartest

One genuinely fails to comprehend the rationale behind one of MPs talking about the revival of communism in India (via the hills) by referring to the communist parties in Nepal

A divided party?

The unsuccessful strategy of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) in West Bengal to join hands with the Congress ahead of Assembly polls in the state earlier this year is turning out to be a bone of contention in the party. The Bengal unit of the CPI-M clashed with party leaders from Kerala, Assam and Tripura at the three-day central committee meeting of the party in Delhi over the weekend. Some members questioned why the party's Bengal unit insisted on an alliance with the Congress in total conflict with the party resolutions adopted earlier against any ties with the Congress at the state level. At one point party General Secretary Sitaram Yechury had to step in and contain leaders, who insisted the Bengal camp admit failure for its insistence on such an alliance.

Duel over Saradha, Narada

At an election rally on Wednesday, Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury said: "From Saradha to Narada, in the last five years, they (the Trinamool Congress government) have institutionalised corruption. It has never happened before in Bengal." The same day, while interacting with people on Facebook, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee put the ball in the Communist party's court, saying Saradha and Narada were "planted political games". "The Saradha man was arrested in 2012 by our government, though Saradha started in 2000 under the Left Front government with the full protection of the Left Front and the central government," she posted.