Left Front
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BJP, Congress trying to get Trinamool as an ally: Left Front
India | Mar 26, 2014, 06:47 AM ISTKolkata : 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 | Mar 08, 2014, 12:47 PM ISTKolkata: 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 | Feb 09, 2014, 07:45 PM ISTKolkata: 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 | Jan 27, 2014, 02:02 PM ISTKolkata: 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 | Dec 07, 2013, 01:31 PM ISTKolkata: 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 | Dec 07, 2013, 09:48 AM ISTKolkata : 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 | Dec 07, 2013, 07:17 AM ISTKolkata: 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 | Nov 30, 2013, 12:04 PM ISTKolkata: 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 | Sep 11, 2013, 05:22 PM ISTRaiganj (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 | Sep 01, 2013, 05:03 PM ISTKolkata: 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 | Apr 27, 2013, 11:12 AM ISTKolkata, 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 | Mar 29, 2013, 10:29 AM ISTKolkata, 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 | Mar 11, 2013, 07:30 AM ISTKolkata, 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 | Mar 04, 2013, 06:54 PM ISTAgartala, 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 | Jan 21, 2013, 06:58 PM ISTKolkata, 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 | Jan 10, 2013, 08:39 AM ISTKolkata, 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 | Jan 07, 2013, 05:35 PM ISTKolkata, 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 | Nov 14, 2012, 10:38 AM ISTKolkata, 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 | Nov 11, 2011, 07:51 PM ISTNew 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 | Jun 21, 2011, 09:04 PM ISTKolkata, 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