Communist Party of India News

By T.G. Biju, New Delhi, Nov 11 : The All India Forward Bloc, a major Left Front partner, is likely to review its decades-old association with the Communist Party of India-Marxist after the continuing electoral debacle of the Marxist-led ruling alliance in West Bengal.

The attack came even as peace had begun to prevail in the state. Police say the attackers may have come from and escaped back into Bangladesh.

KOLKATA: A day after four jawans of the Eastern Frontier Rifles were shot dead by a group of Maoists in the Lalgarh region of West Bengal's Paschim Medinipur district, violence involving the extremists continued unabated on Monday.

The opposition Trinamool Congress-Congress combine was ahead in six and the Left Front in three as votes cast in Saturday's by-elections in 10 assembly constituencies of West Bengal were counted on Tuesday.

NEW DELHI: Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Sitaram Yechury has denied allegations that the Marxists and Maoists were in league in West Bengal and alleged that the rebels were "imported" into the state by political opponents - a tacit reference to the Trinamool Congress.

Midnapore: Trinamool Congress party and Communist Party of India supporters clashed with each other here on Saturday, as West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee arrived in Midnapore district on a two-day visit.

Kozhikode: Tension prevailed in Onchiyam and adjoining areas in the district following the reported attack on Revolutionary Marxist Party leader Puthiyadathu Jayarajan at Kannukkara on Friday.

"I don't think that anybody is importing Nepal Maoists," the home secretary said at the end of two-day of talks that focused on combating cross-border terrorism in South Asia.

India Gazette Saturday 7th November, 2009 Former Communist Party of India-Marxist legislator Subhas Soren was shot at by unidentified men in West Bengal's West Midnapore district Saturday evening, police said, amid speculation that the assailants may be Maoists.

Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Ajit Singh, who is spearheading a campaign against the central government's sugarcane pricing policy, said Saturday that the Communist Party of India-Marxist and Samajwadi Party had offered their support to the farmers' cause.

India Gazette Monday 2nd November, 2009 The Vishwa Hindu Parishad Monday claimed the Maoist problem in the country was an 'international conspiracy' involving Pakistan and China.

Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Sitaram Yechury Monday ridiculed Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee saying no one with knowledge of history would have equated his party with the Maoists.

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Wednesday asked her party workers to 'resist' terror perpetrated by Communist Party of India-Marxist cadres in this belt, and warned West Bengal's ruling communists that they were pushing the state towards president's rule by their violent actions.

Kannur , Nov 4 : Kerala's keenly contested Kannur constituency is all set for Saturday's by-poll. Paramilitary personnel have been deployed and 46 polling booths have been declared sensitive, officials said Wednesday.

As 'honour killings' in states like Haryana and Uttar Pradesh continue to shock, voices calling for action are getting louder.

Over 400 Congress activists were arrested in Tripura Tuesday as they tried to enfore a 12-hour shutdown in parts of the state to protest an alleged attack on their legislator by cadres of the ruling the Communist Party of India-Marxist , police said.

The Communist Party of India-Marxist Monday strongly defended its veteran leader Jyoti Basu's appeal to Congress supporters to vote for West Bengal's ruling Left Front candidates in the coming bypolls to 10 assembly seats.

Protesting against the 'abnormal' price rise of essentials, the West BengaL unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party Sunday convened a 12-hour shutdown across the state Nov 30.

The Left parties in Bihar plan to launch a state-wide agitation against the Nitish Kumar government's 'failure' to implement land reforms in the state, an official said.

KOLKATA: Violence continued unabated in the Lalgarh region of West Bengal's Paschim Medinipur district on Saturday as one person was gunned down by suspected Maoists.