A.B. Bardhan

Former prime minister Manmohan Singh delivers the 'A. B. Bardhan Memorial Lecture' in New Delhi.

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Left Ajar Bardhan’s room in Ajoy Bhavan

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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar pays tribute to the late CPI leader A B Bardhan during a condolence meeting in Janshakti Bhawan in Patna.

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Veteran leader of the Communist Party of India (CPI), Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan, dies. He was 91.

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Former Bihar CM and senior JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar with CPI leader A B Bardhan during a meeting in New Delhi.

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CPI General Secretary Sudhakar Reddy, veteran leader A B Bardhan, MP Gurudas Dasgupta, D Raja and others releasing the party's election manifesto in New Delhi.

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Former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda along with Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar, Communist Party Leaders A.B. Bardhan and Prakash Karat, JDU General Secretary K C Tyagi and JD...

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa along with CPI leaders A.B. Bardhan and Sudhakar Reddy addressing media after their meeting at the CM's residence in Chennai.

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Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav share dais with other party leaders at a convention on 'People's Unity Against Communalism' at Talkatora Stadium in New Del...

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CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat, party leader Sitaram Yechury, CPI's A B Bardhan and Forward Bloc leader Debabrata Biswas at Left Parties' Political Convention in New Delhi.

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BJP leaders Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley (not seen), Murli Manohar Joshi, Vijay Goel and CPI leader A B Bardhan during a protest by traders against FDI in retail in New Delh.

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RJD's Lalu Prasad, CPM's Prakash Karat, CPI's AB Bardhan, LJP's Ramvilas Paswan and CPI's D Raja at the 2nd National Convention of Politics of Terror: Targeting Muslim Youth" in Ne...

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Opposition party leaders, from second left, D. Raja, Sitaram Yechury, Prakash Karat, and A.B. Bardhan, lead a rally to protest a steep hike in gas prices in New Delhi.

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The trinity And a devout

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Politicians have had to sit up and hear the voice of civil society

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BJP leader Arun Jaitley speaks during anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare's one-day fast in protest against the proposals of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Lokpal Bill at...

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JD(U) President Sharad Yadav exchanges greetings with BJP leader Arun Jaitley and Anna Hazare as CPI General Secretary AB Bardhan looks on during Hazare's one-day fast in protest a...

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CPI General Secretary A.B. Bardhan with National Secretary of CPI , D. Raja at a Press Conference in New Delhi.

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TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu, CPI General Secretary AB Bardhan, INLD chief Om Prakash Chautala during an election rally in support of Ajay Chautala (R) in Hisar.

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Social activist Anna Hazare meeting CPI leaders AB Bardhan and D Raja in New Delhi.

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AB Bardhan, Thinking Man's Comrade

With the death of A.B. Bardhan, very few of the communist stalwarts who not only built the Left, but also made the Communist Parties a formidable force, are still active.

Jan 20, 2016

| Kamal Mitra Chenoy
'Parliamentary Democracy Has Been Subverted'

'Reports of bribery, intimidation and horse-trading have been proved true by the cross-voting and abstentions engineered by the Congress and the Samajwadi Party.

Jul 23, 2008

| Prakash Karat A.B. Bardhan Debabrata Biswas T.J. Chandrachoodan
'Face Parliament'

And now comes the spin about "crushing burden of price-rise and galloping inflation". Left says in addition to the nuke deal, the support is being withdrawn "since the Congress led government is willfully disregarding the Common Minimum Programme".

Jul 09, 2008

| Prakash Karat A.B. Bardhan Debabrata Biswas T.J. Chandrachoodan
Don't Proceed With IAEA

'The government should not proceed further with the agreement ... this would require not taking the next step of negotiations for the safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency'

Aug 20, 2007

| Prakash Karat A.B. Bardhan Debabrata Biswas Abani Roy
'Unable To Accept The Agreement'

'The Left calls upon the government not to proceed further with the operationalising of the agreement. There has to be a review of the strategic aspects of Indo-US relations in parliament.'

Aug 07, 2007

| Prakash Karat A.B. Bardhan Abani Roy Devarajan
'Third Front Cannot Emerge Overnight'

'We would continue our efforts towards building a third alternative, but we do not want a communal government to replace the UPA at the centre,' says the General Secretary of the CPI.

Mar 13, 2006

| Nagendar Sharma BBC Hindi Radio
'This Government Would Not Fall'

And win again for five more years. But, cautions the CPI general secretary, his party's stand on FDI in telecom and insurance would continue. The SENSEX? Its going up or down would not determine government policies.

Aug 10, 2004

| Nagendar Sharma BBC Hindi Radio Hindi

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Vajpayee Was The Right Man In The Wrong Party | By D. Raja

Atal Behari Vajpayee, a founder of the BJP, was a rightist by ideology, but at the same time, as a parliamentarian, minister and prime minister, he never stopped interacting with others, writes D. Raja.

Aug 17, 2018

| D. Raja
Unadorned Doors

This photgraph is of all that CPI leader A.B. Bardhan left behind when he died recently. Writer Amit Chaudhuri responds to it, ruminating on life, death and possessions.

Feb 08, 2016

| Amit Chaudhuri
The Forever Revolutionary

Once a Communist, always a Communist, a credo the 87-yr-old Bardhan still lives by

May 28, 2012

| Saba Naqvi
'No Meeting Can Break This Logjam'

Will there be an early end to the stand-off between PM Manmohan Singh and the Left? No, says the CPI's general secretary.

Aug 27, 2007

| Outlook
"We Will Be Forced To Agitate"

CPI General Secretary A.B. Bardhan outlines his party's views on reforms to Outlook:

Oct 02, 1996

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"We Will Fight Disinvestment"

EVEN as United Front stalwarts exult about their Common Minimum Programme (CMP), all members do not seem to be united in the ruling coalition. There have even been unconfirmed reports that the disunity on economic policy reached a head on June 4, whe

Jun 26, 1996

| Arindam Mukherjee
We Are Like This Only

In five short years, phoren-crazy Indians have transformed into persons-of-the-world

Jun 05, 1996

| Rahul Kansal
The New Meddlemen

Mainstream parties oppose the entry of surrendered militants in the political process

Jun 05, 1996

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The Hidden Stream

A novel which argues that not all is within human comprehension

Jun 05, 1996

| Biswadeep Ghosh
The New Outcastes

The Brahminical order is finding new ways of fighting Mandal

Jun 05, 1996

| K.R. Sundar Rajan