Cpi-m Politburo

The Bengal unit of the CPI-M has just had salt rubbed into its wounds. Still reeling from a miserable performance in the Assembly elections, now its top brass is taking it to task for violating party policies and forming an electoral alliance with the Congress.

Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Monday hit back at CPI-M politburo member Pinarayi Vijayan who has alleged that there is a secret tie-up between the Congress-led UDF and the BJP-RSS in Kerala for the upcoming assembly polls.

While asserting there was no age of retirement in the party, CPI-M politburo member Prakash Karat today said the party will be coming out with a retirement policy for its members.

Lashing out at the Trinamool Congress over alleged involvement of its several leaders in Saradha scam, CPI-M Politburo member Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Saturday said the TMC regime has no moral right to continue in office in the wake of the arrest of some of them.

Names of CPI(M)'s Lok Sabha leader Basudeb Acharia, Politburo member M A Baby and several sitting MPs figure in the second list of 49 candidates for the upcoming elections in the party's strongholds of Tripura, West Bengal and Kerala released today.

CPI-M general secretary Prakash Karat on Tuesday dismissed reports that former Kerala chief minister VS Achuthanandan was "ousted" from the politburo as "baseless". Karat told the party-backed Kairali TV channel, "Achuthanandan has been included in the central committee because he was given consideration as a special case."

In an embarrassment to LDF, CPI Kerala state secretary C K Chandrappan today blamed CPI (M) politburo member Kodiyeri Balakrishnan for not demanding resignation of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy after a vigilance court ordered a probe to ascertain whether he had any role in the pamolein import case last year.

The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), leader of the alliance voted out of power in West Bengal, has confessed it was unable to produce ideal Communists. "We could not groom ideal Communist leaders and workers," state CPI-M secretary Biman Bose said after an in-depth analysis of the party-led Left Front's electoral defeat in May.

Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo member and chief of its trade union arm CITU, M.K Pandhe died at the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital here a little after midnight on Friday following a cardiac arrest, party sources said. He was 86.

The Bengal unit of the CPI-M has just had salt rubbed into its wounds. Still reeling from a miserable performance in the Assembly elections, now its top brass is taking it to task for violating party policies and forming an electoral alliance with the Congress.

Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Monday hit back at CPI-M politburo member Pinarayi Vijayan who has alleged that there is a secret tie-up between the Congress-led UDF and the BJP-RSS in Kerala for the upcoming assembly polls.

While asserting there was no age of retirement in the party, CPI-M politburo member Prakash Karat today said the party will be coming out with a retirement policy for its members.

Lashing out at the Trinamool Congress over alleged involvement of its several leaders in Saradha scam, CPI-M Politburo member Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Saturday said the TMC regime has no moral right to continue in office in the wake of the arrest of some of them.

Names of CPI(M)'s Lok Sabha leader Basudeb Acharia, Politburo member M A Baby and several sitting MPs figure in the second list of 49 candidates for the upcoming elections in the party's strongholds of Tripura, West Bengal and Kerala released today.

CPI-M general secretary Prakash Karat on Tuesday dismissed reports that former Kerala chief minister VS Achuthanandan was "ousted" from the politburo as "baseless". Karat told the party-backed Kairali TV channel, "Achuthanandan has been included in the central committee because he was given consideration as a special case."

In an embarrassment to LDF, CPI Kerala state secretary C K Chandrappan today blamed CPI (M) politburo member Kodiyeri Balakrishnan for not demanding resignation of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy after a vigilance court ordered a probe to ascertain whether he had any role in the pamolein import case last year.

The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), leader of the alliance voted out of power in West Bengal, has confessed it was unable to produce ideal Communists. "We could not groom ideal Communist leaders and workers," state CPI-M secretary Biman Bose said after an in-depth analysis of the party-led Left Front's electoral defeat in May.

Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo member and chief of its trade union arm CITU, M.K Pandhe died at the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital here a little after midnight on Friday following a cardiac arrest, party sources said. He was 86.