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  Budget Over, Sonia Gandhi Holds Strategy Session With Opposition Leaders

  The leaders of 17 opposition parties - including the CPM, which voted to rule out siding with the Congress - met Sonia Gandhi in Delhi this afternoon to talk strategy for the budget session of parliament. Mrs Gandhi, who handed over the Congress to her son Rahul Gandhi after the Gujarat assembly elections last year, had called the meeting in her ca...

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  7 Years After Expelling Him, CPM May Welcome Somnath Chatterjee Back

  CPM chief Sitaram Yechury had lunch and a spent close to two hours on Sunday with former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee. The veteran leader had been expelled from the party in July 2008 for refusing to quit the Speaker's post as the Left withdrew support to the UPA government over the Indo-US nuclear deal.

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  CPM May Reinduct Somnath Chatterjee, Hints Party Chief Sitaram Yechury

  The Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury today indicated that former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee will be reinducted into the party from which he was expelled seven years ago, as the two leaders shared a dais in Kolkata.

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  Shouldn't Have Snapped Ties with UPA over Nuclear Deal: Sitaram Yechury

  The Left parties should not have withdrawn support to UPA-I government on the issue of Indo-US nuclear deal, says CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on the steep decline of the communists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.

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  Price Rise Would Have Been Better Reason Than Nuclear Deal to Pull Out of UPA: CPI(M) Chief Sitaram Yechury to NDTV

  Sitaram Yechury, the new head of the CPI (M), has for the first time admitted that the party should have found a more people-friendly reason than the Indo-US nuclear deal to withdraw support to Dr Manmohan Singh's government in 2008.

• Kerala CPM plenum for introspection, says Prakash Karat

  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.

• Rahul Gandhi's outburst was 'strange', says Left leader Prakash Karat

  The Communist Party of India-Marxist or CPM General Secretary Prakash Karat categorically admitted that public mood was against bringing such a law and the government should withdraw the bill they had introduced during the Monsoon Session of Parliament.

• UPA II completes four years: Who said what

  As the UPA II government completes four years in office, the Opposition launched a scathing attack on the Centre and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today on its performance. While the BJP raised question over the leadership quality of the PM, the Congress hit back at the opposition for playing negative politics. Here are some of the political react...

• Freeze-frame moment of the day: When Mulayam held hands with Left

  The freeze-frame moment of today's Bharat bandh so far has been Mulayam Singh Yadav holding hands with the CPM's Sitaram Yechury. He even mentioned those two words a beleaguered Congress would rather not hear right now - Third Front.

• Government has no mandate to proceed with FDI in multi-brand retail, says Prakash Karat: Highlights

  CPM General Secretary slammed the UPA government for going ahead with their decision to implement FDI in retail without taking the mandate of the Parliament. Here are the highlights from Mr Karat's press conference:

• Mamata's Trinamool strongly hints they won't support Pranab for President

  Pranab Mukherjee, the ruling UPA's candidate for President of India, said today that he was ready to talk to Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, when she was ready. Ms Banerjee is apparently not ready - a senior leader of her party today all but ruled out supporting his candidacy.

• Vice Presidential polls: PM speaks to Prakash Karat, Hamid Ansari frontrunner as UPA's candidate

  Vice President Hamid Ansari is emerging as one of the frontrunners for the post again. Ahead of the vice presidential polls, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke to CPM's General Secretary Prakash Karat to discuss the matter.

• Budget 2012: Session begins today, UPA faces hostile Opposition in Parliament

  Ahead of the Budget session of Parliament beginning today, the Opposition has its strategy ready.

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  Left was right in withdrawing support to UPA: Karat

  The CPM, perhaps for the first time, admitted to differences in the party over withdrawal of support to the UPA.

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  People didn't find Third Front credible: Yechury

  CPM seems to be feeling bitter about its allies like BSP and JD(S) switching sides to the UPA after the Third Front's electoral debacle.