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  Five Left parties got just 5,405 votes in Delhi

  National | February 17, 2015 14:45 IST

  New Delhi: Believe it or not, five Left parties got a grand total of 5,405 votes in the Delhi assembly elections in which they fielded 14 candidates.The Communist Party of India (CPI), Communist Party of

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  West Bengal: Happy hours over for Madan Mitra, the jailed TMC minister

  National | February 08, 2015 18:24 IST

  Kolkata: The covert supply of liquor to a Trinamool minister who is currently in jail for his links with Saradha scam has become the latest political weapon for Left parties to target the ruling West

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  Left parties to start countrywide stir Monday

  National | December 07, 2014 23:50 IST

  Kolkata: Six Left parties Sunday decided to start a countrywide mass movement from Monday in support of their nine-point demand including stopping introduction of RSS and Hindutva ideologies in education and preventing FDI in insurance

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  Babri Structure demolition: Left parties to observe Black day today

  National | December 06, 2014 8:03 IST

  Kolkata: The left parties in West Bengal will observe today as ‘Black day'. On this day the Babri structure was demolished in 1992.The decision was taken at a meeting of 17 left parties at the

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  Left parties' to launch campaign against Centre

  National | December 06, 2014 6:51 IST

  Chennai: The Left parties, CPI(M) and CPI today announced a week-long campaign, between December 8 and 14, in Tamil Nadu against alleged anti-people measures of the BJP-led NDA Government at the Centre.  “The six-month tenure

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  PM Modi reaches out to Opposition, hopeful of fruitful Winter Session

  National | November 24, 2014 14:24 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today voiced hope that the opposition will cooperate in Parliament to make it a “fruitful and result-oriented” winter session, despite several parties making it clear they will resist reform

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  Prakash Karat welcomes unity bid of erstwhile Janata Parivar

  National | November 16, 2014 14:52 IST

  Patna: CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat today welcomed the ongoing efforts of unity among the constituents of erstwhile Janata Parivar to take on a resurgent BJP saying the Left parties will coordinate with them in

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  West Bengal: 16 Left parties to hold convention to fight communalism today

  National | November 13, 2014 7:38 IST

  Kolkata: 16 Left parties in West Bengal led by the CPI (M) will today hold a convention in a bid to counter communalism and attempt to establish “greater unity” among them.In a meeting held between

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  No breakthrough on insurance bill, government seeks to reach out

  National | August 05, 2014 11:28 IST

  New Delhi: The insurance bill's consideration by the Rajya Sabha has been deferred after a meeting called to resolve differences failed to achieve a breakthrough and several opposition parties insisted the legislation be sent to

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  Opposition stalls Rajya Sabha on Gaza issue, House adjourned twice

  National | July 18, 2014 12:45 IST

  New Delhi: A vociferous opposition led by Congress and Left parties today stalled proceedings in Rajya Sabha during Question Hour demanding immediate discussion on killings of innocent women and children in Gaza.While the government said

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  CPI-M to lead protests against railway budget measures: CPI-M

  National | July 09, 2014 13:19 IST

  Kolkata: West Bengal, as well as the entire eastern region of India, has been "ignored" in the railway budget, CPI-M leader Surjya Kanta Mishra said Tuesday, and announced that the Left parties would lead protests

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  Left parties to protest alleged poll malpractices in WB

  National | May 13, 2014 13:27 IST

  New Delhi: Four Left parties would tomorrow organise nationwide protests against the “assault on democracy” in West Bengal, accusing ruling Trinamool Congress of violence and poll malpractices and the Election Commission of being ineffective in

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  Left parties call off alliance with Jayalalithaa

  India | March 06, 2014 22:53 IST

  Chennai: Miffed over ruling AIADMK's “approach” in finalising seat-sharing agreement for the Lok Sabha polls in Tamil Nadu, CPI(M) and CPI on Thursday called off their month-old alliance with the Jayalalitha-led party.The leaders of the

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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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  Left : stop indiscriminate tunnelling of hills

  National | June 21, 2013 16:23 IST

  New Delhi, Jun 21:  Expressing shock at the unprecedented death and devastation caused by rains and floods in Uttarakhand and elsewhere, Left parties today sought a probe into the “indiscriminate” damage caused to the hills

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  Congress, Left oppose CIC order, BJP unsure

  National | June 04, 2013 19:51 IST

  New Delhi, June 4: The Congress and the CPI-M Tuesday opposed a Central Information Commission order bringing political parties under the ambit of Right to Information Act even as the BJP sought the Election Commission's

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  Several opposition leaders detained during Bharat Bandh

  National | September 20, 2012 18:00 IST

  New Delhi Sep 20:  A bandh called by NDA, Left parties and the SP to protest against diesel price hike, FDI in multi-brand retail and cap on subsidised LPG on Thursday evoked mixed response as

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  Uproar over Bofors, Congress rejects demand for fresh probe

  India | April 26, 2012 15:13 IST

  New Delhi, Apr 26: The Bofors issue today led to disruption in Lok Sabha with the BJP and Left parties demanding reopening of the graft case and a judicial probe into it.BJP members trooped into

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  Left Parties To Work For Evolving An Alternative Policy

  National | November 06, 2011 17:25 IST

  Coimbatore,Nov 6: CPI's All India Congress, beginning in Patna from March 27 next, would debate the prevailing political situation in the country and try to evolve an alternate policy for benefit of the people who

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  Centre Trying To Curb Democratic Rights, Say Left Parties

  National | June 15, 2011 18:06 IST

  New Delhi, Jun 15: With the government mulling over an option to ban Jantar Mantar as a protest ground, the Left parties today accused the UPA of trying to curb the democratic rights of the