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After BJP decimates Left in Tripura, party supporters bulldoze Lenin's iconic statue
India | Mar 06, 2018, 10:29 AM ISTThe CPI(M)-led Left Front was dethroned by the BJP-IPFT coalition after nearly 25 years in power on March 3.
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Tripura, Nagaland, Meghalaya Election Results 2018: As it happened
Elections | Mar 03, 2018, 10:21 PM IST"I thank brothers and sisters of Tripura for their massive support to BJP. This is the victory of PM @narendramodi’s politics of development and his commitment to the welfare of North-Eastern region of India," tweets the BJP president.
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Tripura Assembly Elections 2018: As it happened
India | Feb 18, 2018, 11:35 PM ISTThe BJP has emerged as the main challenger to the ruling Left Front, which has been in power in the state for the last 25 years.
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Tripura Elections 2018: BJP emerges as main contender to ruling Left, Congress fights for air
Elections | Feb 13, 2018, 09:43 AM ISTThe 60-seat assembly will see a direct contest between ruling Left and new entrant BJP, as the main Opposition party of the state Congress gasps for funds, leadership and volunteers.
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Tripura assembly elections: Amit Shah appeals people to vote for BJP, says left cadres looting public
National | Feb 11, 2018, 06:55 PM ISTWithout naming Rahul Gandhi, he alleged that the Congress chief had put up candidates as 'vote-katva' (cutting into others' votes) to help the CPI(M) government headed by Chief Minister Manik Sarkar to come back to power.
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Manmohan Singh urges Left to cooperate with Congress to fight BJP's 'divisive policies'
National | Nov 18, 2017, 11:27 AM ISTManmohan Singh asked the Left parties to cooperate with the Congress leadership to fight together against the "divisive" policies of the BJP-led Union government.
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Student organisations, women activists stage protests against crackdown on BHU students
India | Sep 25, 2017, 09:12 PM ISTVarious students bodies, including the the NSUI and the ABVP, today staged protests across the country against the lathi-charge on students in BHU.
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Congress, Left giving different "colour" to happenings on campuses: Venkaiah Naidu
National | Feb 27, 2017, 10:21 PM ISTUnion minister M Venkaiah Naidu today said freedom of expression does not mean liberty to advocate disintegration of the country.
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Opposition cracks: JD(U), Left dent Congress’ mega offensive against note ban
National | Dec 26, 2016, 04:38 PM ISTThe opposition's concerted campaign against demonetisation appears to have suffered a jolt with several parties pulling out of a joint press conference called by the Congress here on Tuesday over the contentious issue. Many important
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Reunification of Left is a historic necessity: CPI
National | Dec 22, 2016, 06:53 PM ISTStrongly pitching for the unity of communist parties, senior CPI leader D Raja today said that reunification of left is a historic necessity under present political scenario.
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Demonetisation: Cracks appear in opposition unity; TMC opposes Bharat Bandh, JD(U) to stay off
National | Nov 27, 2016, 12:09 PM ISTCracks have surfaced within the Opposition with JD(U) and Trinamool Congress refusing to support the Bharat bandh called by opposition parties against demonetisation on November 28.
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Left, Congress MPs oppose merger of associate banks with SBI
National | Jul 19, 2016, 05:00 PM ISTNew Delhi: Opposing the merger of five associate banks with the State Bank of India (SBI), Rajya Sabha members belonging to the left and Congress today said that the move was not in the interest
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The Kanhaiya effect? Two JNU students emerge victorious in the Kerala assembly elections
National | May 19, 2016, 04:59 PM ISTThiruvananthapuram: Amid the LDF wave that has swept across Kerala lies the story of two victorious candidates who had a unique reason to have made their mark in the Assembly elections. Both these candidates are students at Delhi’s much-discussed Jaw
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Congress, Left funded protests over Rohith Vemula’s death: former SFI leader
National | May 13, 2016, 02:21 PM ISTa former student leader of the Left-affiliated Students Federation of India (SFI) has claimed that the protests in the aftermath of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula’s suicide were sponsored by political parties which included the Congress, the Left
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Kanhaiya Kumar to campaign for Left in West Bengal: Sitaram Yechury
National | Mar 04, 2016, 06:56 PM ISTNew Delhi: Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Sitaram Yechury said on Friday that Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar, who was released from Tihar jail yesterday, will campaign for the Left in
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Arun Jaitley accuses Congress, leftists of 'ideological intolerance'
National | Nov 01, 2015, 09:39 PM ISTNew Delhi: Turning tables on Congress and left thinkers, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today accused them of practising “ideological intolerance” towards the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and trying to project India as an
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NDA Government cleansing top academic bodies polluted by left ideology: Venkaiah Naidu
National | Sep 28, 2015, 07:48 PM ISTHyderabad: Rubbing Left and the Congress the wrong way, Union minister Venkaiah Naidu today said that the Communists took control of the higher academic bodies by taking "advantage" of Congress' weaknesses and "polluted" them with
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Left shouldn't have snapped ties with UPA over n-deal: Sitaram Yechury
National | May 10, 2015, 11:04 AM ISTNew Delhi: The Left parties should not have withdrawn support to UPA-I government on the issue of Indo-US nuclear deal, says CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on the steep decline of the communists eversince. Instead,
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Lok Sabha adjourned till noon after opposition uproar
National | Dec 23, 2014, 01:12 PM ISTNew Delhi: Members of Congress, TMC, Left, RJD, JD(U) and SP stormed into the Well raising slogans against 'ghar wapsi' (conversion) as soon as proceedings began in the House after Speaker Sumitra Mahajan rejected their
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Prospect for Left, secular forces in 2016 Assam polls: CPI (M)
National | Dec 13, 2014, 08:52 PM ISTGuwahati: CPI(M) Politburo member Sitaram Yechury today said Left and secular forces have a very good prospect in 2016 Assam Assembly elections as people are “disillusioned” with both Congress and BJP governments.“The CPI(M), Left and