An view of the massive Left Front rally in Kolkata.
Supporters and leaders of left front parties participate in a rally, in Kolkata. The rally was held to call for peace and harmony among communities and for an end to alleged polic...
Members and supporters of All India Students' Association (AISA), affiliated student's wing of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), shout slogans during a rally, in Kolkata...
Yuva League (Youth Wing of Forward Bloc) activists participate in rally 'March to Governor House' in Kolkata for their various demands.
Left Front Chairman Biman Bose along with others activists in a rally during a protest against State Government in front of Calcutta University in Kolkata.
CPI (M) Politburo member Brinda Karat along with activists protest against recent attacks on minorities and the ban on trade of cattle at Jantar Mantar, in New Delhi.
Activists of Delhi State of Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) protesting against the killing of six farmers in police firing in Mandsaur, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi
Left Front activists holding a protest rally against alleged brutal police action on their Monday's law violation programme, in Kolkata.
Left Front activists holding a protest rally against alleged brutal police action on their Monday's law violation programme, in Kolkata.
Police personnel charging lathi during law violation for 'Nabanna (State Secretariat) Abhijan' by the Left front activists and their supported farmers against State Government with...
Footwears of the Left front activists lying on the road after their clash with the police at Howrah near Kolkata.
Left Front activists try to break the police barricades at Nabanna during a protest rally, in Kolkata.
A Left Front activist attacks Murlidhar Sharma, deputy commissioner, Special Task Force (STF) of the Kolkata Police during a protest rally, in Kolkata.
People march with red flags with the Christ the Savior Cathedral in the background during a Communist rally to mark May Day in Moscow, Russia. As in Soviet times, people paraded ac...
Members of the People's Liberation Front, a Marxist political party, carry a portrait of Russian Communist leader Vladimir Lenin during a parade held to mark May Day in Colombo, Sr...
B.Ed students, under the banner of AISA, holding a protest to press for their various demands, in Patna.
An artist creates a sand sculpture on occasion of SUCI (Communist) 70th foundation day celebration, in Bhubaneswar.
Activists of SUCI taking out a rally on its 70th foundation day in Bhubaneswar.
Komsomol (All-Union Lenin Communist Youth League) carries out a rally during the 69th SUCI Foundation Day at Sahid Minar, in Kolkata.
AISA activists stage a protest at Rajendra Nagar Terminal to highlight problems being faced by students, in Patna.
A three-member BJP panel set up to consult political parties on selecting a consensus candidate for the upcoming president
Several Left party activists and police personnel were injured in clashes at various places in the city and in neighbourin
BJP president Amit Shah will be in Tripura on a two-day visit to address a brain storming session of party workers on the
Delhi Police's Crime Branch, which is probing the clashes at Ramjas College, has recorded the statements of two St Stephen
Trinamool Congress today announced that it would launch a continuous movement in Tripura to "restore democracy" by ousting
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who will complete six months in office next week, will induct trade union leader M
Blaming the Left parties for being unpatriotic, historian Ramchandra Guha today said there is a need to redefine patriotis
Left parties on Saturday lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, questioning why he has been silent on the 55 deaths c
The West Bengal Assembly today passed a motion against Centre's alleged discrimination towards the state government even a
A 14.5 per cent 'fat tax' on burgers, pizzas and other junk food and a Green tax for vehicles over 10 years have been prop
Kolkata, Jul 6 (PTI) The opposition Congress and the Left Front has decided to sent delegations to riot hit areas of North
Kolkata, May 23 (PTI) The Left Front today staged a rally to protest against the police assault on their activists during
march
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Kolkata, May 22 (PTI) Over 100 Left
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Kolkata, May 22 (PTI) Several Left party activists and police personnel were inju
Kolkata, Mar 17 (PTI) The Left Front took out a massive rally here today demanding West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Baner
Jaithirth Rao in the Indian Express joins issue with Amartya Sen's recent expressions of "closeness, attachment, even fondness, for the leftist parties in India’s polity":
Contemporary Indian leftists represent their own selfish party interests and their sense of misplaced historical determinism which is locked in a time-warp. They do not care for underprivileged citizens and certainly do not care to improve the lot of the poor. In Sen’s own paradigm, Indian leftists pursue purist, ideologically correct “Niti”. They have no concern for “Nyaya” or just consequences...
...The final nail in the coffin of leftist pretensions has been driven in by two recent data points. The Sachar Commission tells us that Muslim citizens in West Bengal are on every count worse off than their counterparts in most other states, not excluding much-maligned Gujarat. And West Bengal has been virtually the last state in implementation of the NREGA. So much for the Left’s concern for “Nyaya” for Muslim citizens or the rural poor!
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