S Sudhakar Reddy

Top Left leaders - Sitaram Yechury, D Raja and Sudhakar Reddy - as well as Bollywood lyricist Javed Akhtar will be in Bihar next week to campaign in Begusarai where former JNU students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar is pitted against Union minister and firebrand BJP leader Giriraj Singh.

The Left Front would make all efforts to defeat the Congress President Rahul Gandhi in Wayanad, and there was no question of withdrawing its candidate, CPI General Secretary S Sudhakar Reddy said Monday.

Communist Party of India general secretary S Sudhakar Reddy along with senior leaders of his party visited DMK president M K Stalin on Tuesday and discussed the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

On a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled an imposing 182-metre statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the world's tallest, veteran Communist leader Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy demanded to know why a bigger statue of Mahatma Gandhi was not built by the BJP.

Veteran Communist leader Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy hailed CPI(M)-led LDF's victory in Chengannur Assembly bypoll in Kerala but said a "deeper introspection" is needed in West Bengal, where the Left is seen to be yielding political space to the BJP.

The Tripura Assembly election results were a "blow" to the Left Front, which was expecting to retain power in the north-eastern state, at least with a thin majority, CPI general secretary Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy said today.

The Communist Party of India raised doubts about the Election Commission's "deplorable" move of not allowing it to witness today's EVM challenge and said that thepoll watchdog's approach of secrecy was against spirit of its invitation letter seeking cooperation from political parties over the matter.

Voicing concern over spurt in political violence in Kerala's Kannur district, the Communist Party of India (CPI) has urged the CPI-M to exercise restraint and not get provoked by the RSS as it has the responsibility of maintaining law and order in the LDF-ruled state.

CPI accused the centre of using the Uniform Civil Code as an "electoral trump-card" and trying to hurt the identity of minorities in the country. General secretary S Sudhakar Reddy also said that the BJP will like to keep the issue in the limelight till the 2019 national elections.

CPI has responded positively to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's proposal to forge a grand alliance of anti-BJP parties at the national level but with a rider that such an arrangement should be based on "alternative, pro-poor economic policies".

CPI does not have any affiliated organisations and the outfits like AISF are independent but "friendly" towards the party, CPI General Secretary S Sudhakar Reddy said today.

Stating that the emergence of strong secular parties was the need of the hour, Communist Party of India (CPI), today, welcomed the merger of the offshoots of 'Janata Parivar', hoping the six unified outfits will fight the Narendra Modi-led central government.

Terming manipulated opinion polls as "paid news", CPI today sought reasonable restrictions to ensure that such surveys are not misused.

Chances of a political re-alignment seem possible soon, CPI general secretary S Sudhakar Reddy said in Hyderabad on Sunday at a meeting of the party's Andhra Pradesh state council.

Samajwadi Party, Left parties and JD(S) today shot off a joint letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking the government not to open up retail trade to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) any further.

Top Left leaders - Sitaram Yechury, D Raja and Sudhakar Reddy - as well as Bollywood lyricist Javed Akhtar will be in Bihar next week to campaign in Begusarai where former JNU students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar is pitted against Union minister and firebrand BJP leader Giriraj Singh.

The Left Front would make all efforts to defeat the Congress President Rahul Gandhi in Wayanad, and there was no question of withdrawing its candidate, CPI General Secretary S Sudhakar Reddy said Monday.

Communist Party of India general secretary S Sudhakar Reddy along with senior leaders of his party visited DMK president M K Stalin on Tuesday and discussed the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

On a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled an imposing 182-metre statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the world's tallest, veteran Communist leader Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy demanded to know why a bigger statue of Mahatma Gandhi was not built by the BJP.

Veteran Communist leader Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy hailed CPI(M)-led LDF's victory in Chengannur Assembly bypoll in Kerala but said a "deeper introspection" is needed in West Bengal, where the Left is seen to be yielding political space to the BJP.

The Tripura Assembly election results were a "blow" to the Left Front, which was expecting to retain power in the north-eastern state, at least with a thin majority, CPI general secretary Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy said today.

The Communist Party of India raised doubts about the Election Commission's "deplorable" move of not allowing it to witness today's EVM challenge and said that thepoll watchdog's approach of secrecy was against spirit of its invitation letter seeking cooperation from political parties over the matter.

Voicing concern over spurt in political violence in Kerala's Kannur district, the Communist Party of India (CPI) has urged the CPI-M to exercise restraint and not get provoked by the RSS as it has the responsibility of maintaining law and order in the LDF-ruled state.

CPI accused the centre of using the Uniform Civil Code as an "electoral trump-card" and trying to hurt the identity of minorities in the country. General secretary S Sudhakar Reddy also said that the BJP will like to keep the issue in the limelight till the 2019 national elections.

CPI has responded positively to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's proposal to forge a grand alliance of anti-BJP parties at the national level but with a rider that such an arrangement should be based on "alternative, pro-poor economic policies".

CPI does not have any affiliated organisations and the outfits like AISF are independent but "friendly" towards the party, CPI General Secretary S Sudhakar Reddy said today.

Stating that the emergence of strong secular parties was the need of the hour, Communist Party of India (CPI), today, welcomed the merger of the offshoots of 'Janata Parivar', hoping the six unified outfits will fight the Narendra Modi-led central government.

Terming manipulated opinion polls as "paid news", CPI today sought reasonable restrictions to ensure that such surveys are not misused.

Chances of a political re-alignment seem possible soon, CPI general secretary S Sudhakar Reddy said in Hyderabad on Sunday at a meeting of the party's Andhra Pradesh state council.

Samajwadi Party, Left parties and JD(S) today shot off a joint letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking the government not to open up retail trade to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) any further.