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  BJP, Congress trying to get Trinamool as an ally: Left Front

  India | March 26, 2014 6:47 IST

  Kolkata : West Bengal's opposition Left Front Tuesday claimed that the central leaderships of both the Congress and the BJP were making efforts to draw the Trinamool Congress as an ally.In an appeal to the

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  Ahead of polls, Left Front suffers coalition blues

  National | March 08, 2014 12:47 IST

  Kolkata: West Bengal's opposition Left Front, which has been steadily losing electoral ground, received a further jolt to its revival plans after one of its constituents - now known as the Samajwadi Party (SP) -

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  Bringing Narendra Modi would encourage communalism, capitalism: Prakash Karat

  National | February 09, 2014 19:45 IST

  Kolkata: Bringing Narendra Modi to power at the Centre and implementing his Gujarat model of development would only encourage capitalism and communalism, CPI-M veteran Prakash Karat today said.Addressing a massive rally at the Brigade Parade

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  Congress-Left Front inching closer in West Bengal?

  National | January 27, 2014 14:02 IST

  Kolkata: It seems both Congress and Left Front are trying to mend ways in West Bengal. They have probably realized that it has become a political compulsion for both sides to join hands if they

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  Stop BJP from coming to power: Left

  National | December 07, 2013 13:31 IST

  Kolkata:  The Left Front has once again said that Stopping BJP from coming to power is necessary to save democracy and India's unity.Speaking at a rally to condemn 1992 demolition of the Babri Masjid, former

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  CPI leader A B Bardhan lashes out at state government

  India | December 07, 2013 9:48 IST

  Kolkata : In an apparent dig at the CPI(M), the senior partner of the Left Front, veteran CPI leader A B Bardhan yesterday said if capitalist and communal forces have to be kept out of

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  Big-brotherly attitude has to stop in Left Front: Bardhan

  National | December 07, 2013 7:17 IST

  Kolkata: In an apparent dig at the CPI(M), the senior partner of the Left Front, veteran CPI leader A B Bardhan today said if capitalist and communal forces have to be kept out of power,

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  Mamata asks Left Front to keep mum for 10 years

  National | November 30, 2013 12:04 IST

  Kolkata: Hitting out at the opposition Left Front, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday asked its leaders to keep mum for 10 years alleging they had wrecked havoc in key sectors like health, sanitation

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  North Dinajpur zilla parishad board goes to Left Front

  India | September 11, 2013 17:22 IST

  Raiganj (WB): The Left Front formed the board in the North Dinajpur district zilla parishad today after its candidate Lovely Chowdhury was elected the sabhadhipati through lottery following a tie in the election between the

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  LF holds rally to protest US plan to attack Syria

  India | September 01, 2013 17:03 IST

  Kolkata: A huge “anti-imperialism rally”, organised by the Left Front, was taken out in the metropolis today to protest the US's plan to attack Syria for its alleged use of chemical weapons.The rally, which raised

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  Bengal chit fund scam: Left responsible for chit fund disaster, says Mamata

  National | April 27, 2013 11:12 IST

  Kolkata, April 27: Assuring people of justice and swift action for relief in the Saradha Group chit fund case, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday lashed out at the erstwhile Left Front regime for

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  Mamata government responsible for panchayat poll stalemate: Left Front

  National | March 29, 2013 10:29 IST

  Kolkata, March 29: West Bengal's opposition Left Front Thursday said the Mamata Banerjee government will have to take responsibility for the stalemate over the coming panchayat (rural body) polls following its friction with the state

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  Trinamool alleges poll panel of bias, opposition flays remarks

  National | March 11, 2013 7:30 IST

  Kolkata, March 11: Firing a fresh salvo at the state poll panel, West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress Sunday accused its chief of favouring the Left Front and trying to defer the upcoming rural polls to

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  Left Front stakes claim to forming government in Tripura

  National | March 04, 2013 18:54 IST

  Agartala, March 4: Leaders of the Left Front, which won 50 seats in the 60-member legislature in the Feb 14 election, met Tripura Governor D.Y. Patil Monday and staked claim to forming the government for

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  Left Front wants three-phased Bengal panchayat polls

  National | January 21, 2013 18:58 IST

  Kolkata, Jan 21: Citing political threats to its candidates, the Left Front Monday said panchayat polls in West Bengal should be conducted in three phases instead of a single phase."Going by media reports and other

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  Buddhadeb in Left Front march against attack on Mollah

  National | January 10, 2013 8:39 IST

  Kolkata, Jan 10: Former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Wednesday took part in a massive protest march brought out by opposition Left Front here against the attack on veteran CPI-M leader Abdur Rezzak Mollah.Clad

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  Left Front gives ultimatum for arrest of attackers

  National | January 07, 2013 17:35 IST

  Kolkata, Jan 7: The CPI-M today gave a deadline of noon tomorrow to the West Bengal government for the arrest of the attackers of senior party leader Abdur Rezzak Mollah, failing which the party threatened

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  Left Front to hold anti-Mamata rally in Kolkata on Nov 17

  National | November 14, 2012 10:38 IST

  Kolkata, Nov 14: West Bengal's opposition Left Front would hold a rally Nov 17 here in protest against the deteriorating law and order situation and increasing number of atrocities against women in the state, a

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  Left Front Alleges Attack On Democracy By Mamata Govt

  National | November 11, 2011 19:51 IST

  New Delhi, Nov 11: West Bengal's Left Front today charged the state's ruling Trinamool Congress-led coalition with unleashing a reign of terror on Left activists and launching an attack on democracy in the state.  “The

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  Shouts, Counter-Shouts At West Bengal Left Front Meeting

  National | June 21, 2011 21:04 IST

  Kolkata, Jun 21 :  A CPI(M) proposal to hold a rally against the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government on June 25, coinciding with the imposition of Emergency in 1975, has been struck down by other