Cpm Plenum

The CPM plenum ended in Kolkata on New Year's eve with a spot of glasnost. The media was let in with cameras into the last session - something that surely didn't happen at the last plenum 37 years ago.

Prakash Karat, former CPM general secretary known to oppose any party links with the Congress, has not said a definite no to the question of a tie up in Bengal or the upcoming Assembly polls and set political circles abuzz.

The West Bengal unit of the CPM will begin discussing poll strategy in January. That was the only point party general secretary Sitaram Yechury would confirm when repeatedly asked: will the CPM join hands with the Congress ahead of the Assembly polls in West Bengal and Kerala?

Trinamool Congress today claimed the CPI(M)'s rally, at the start of the five-day plenum, at the Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata was "devoid of crowd".

Inaugurating the three-day meeting of the Kerala unit of the Communist Party of India-Marxist in Palakkad today, party general secretary Prakash Karat said the plenum would serve as an occasion for introspection.

The three-day CPI-M Kerala plenum will commence in Palakkad tomorrow, and among other things, it would discuss organisational weakness and ways to make the party stronger to face the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

The CPM plenum ended in Kolkata on New Year's eve with a spot of glasnost. The media was let in with cameras into the last session - something that surely didn't happen at the last plenum 37 years ago.

Prakash Karat, former CPM general secretary known to oppose any party links with the Congress, has not said a definite no to the question of a tie up in Bengal or the upcoming Assembly polls and set political circles abuzz.

The West Bengal unit of the CPM will begin discussing poll strategy in January. That was the only point party general secretary Sitaram Yechury would confirm when repeatedly asked: will the CPM join hands with the Congress ahead of the Assembly polls in West Bengal and Kerala?

Trinamool Congress today claimed the CPI(M)'s rally, at the start of the five-day plenum, at the Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata was "devoid of crowd".

Inaugurating the three-day meeting of the Kerala unit of the Communist Party of India-Marxist in Palakkad today, party general secretary Prakash Karat said the plenum would serve as an occasion for introspection.

The three-day CPI-M Kerala plenum will commence in Palakkad tomorrow, and among other things, it would discuss organisational weakness and ways to make the party stronger to face the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.