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Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) activists stage a protest over hike in cooking and fuel prices, in Guwahati.

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CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury addresses a joint rally of Left, Congress and Indian Secular Front (ISF), ahead of West Bengal assembly polls, in Kolkata.

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CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury and Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel exchange greetings during a joint rally of Left, Congress and Indian Secular Front (ISF), ahead of West ...

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Left Front Chairman Biman Bose, CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury, CPI General Secretary D Raja, Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel, Senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhur...

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Activists and supporters gather at Brigade Parade Ground during a joint rally by Left-Congress and Indian Secular Front (ISF), ahead of West Bengal assembly polls, in Kolkata.

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Activists and supporters gather at Brigade Parade Ground during a joint rally by Left-Congress and Indian Secular Front (ISF), ahead of West Bengal assembly polls, in Kolkata.

Photo by Sandipan Chatterjee/Outlook
Activists and supporters gather at Brigade Parade Ground during a joint rally by Left-Congress and Indian Secular Front (ISF), ahead of West Bengal assembly polls, in Kolkata.

Photo by Sandipan Chatterjee/Outlook
Activists and supporters gather at Brigade Parade Ground during a joint rally by Left-Congress and Indian Secular Front (ISF), ahead of West Bengal assembly polls, in Kolkata.

Photo by Sandipan Chatterjee/Outlook
Activists and supporters gather at Brigade Parade Ground during a joint rally by Left-Congress and Indian Secular Front (ISF), ahead of West Bengal assembly polls, in Kolkata.

Photo by Sandipan Chatterjee/Outlook
Activists and supporters gather at Brigade Parade Ground during a joint rally by Left-Congress and Indian Secular Front (ISF), ahead of West Bengal assembly polls, in Kolkata.

Photo by Sandipan Chatterjee/Outlook
Activists and supporters gather at Brigade Parade Ground during a joint rally by Left-Congress and Indian Secular Front (ISF), ahead of West Bengal assembly polls, in Kolkata.

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Left party activists march towards Brigade Parade Ground to join Left-Congress and Indian Secular Front joint rally, ahead of the state Assembly poll, in Kolkata.

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Left party activists march towards Brigade Parade Ground to join Left-Congress and Indian Secular Front joint rally, ahead of the state Assembly poll, in Kolkata.

PTI Photo/Swapan Mahapatra
Left-wing organisations participate in a rally, ahead of the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) elections, in Agartala.

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Left Front Chairman Biman Bose with party leader Sujan Chakraborty inspects the preparations at Brigade Parade Ground on the eve of Left-Congress joint rally ahead of State Assembl...

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A worker fixes a tent as preparations underway at Brigade Parade Ground on the eve of Left-Congress joint rally ahead of State Assembly elections, in Kolkata.

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CPI activists take part in a protest rally against fuel price hike, in Bhubaneswar.

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Left parties and Congress supporters block a train at Jadavpur Station during 'Bengal Bandh' protest over alleged police attacks on students and activists, in Kolkata.

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Women activists of Left organisations try to break police barricades as they march during their law violation programme, outside Kolkata Municipal Corporation headquarters, in Kolk...

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Left Front chairman Biman Bose addresses a gathering of All Bengal Teachers Association (ABTA) celebrating its 100 years of completion, in Kolkata.

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Maths In A Poll Match

Young Tejashwi makes a soft border-crossing—endorsing his father’s old bête noire Mamata Banerjee in Bengal, and plumping for the Congress (and a few seats) in Assam

Mar 03, 2021

| Giridhar Jha
Hammer The Sickle

Trinamool and BJP in race to poach CPI(M) leaders and loyalists

Nov 11, 2020

| Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
Can Kanhaiya Kumar Revive Left Parties? No One Person Has A Magic Wand

Kanhaiya Kumar cannot revive the Left. It's not up to any one person. It's a movement led by the people, says CPI general secretary D. Raja

Mar 13, 2020

| D. Raja
Solitary Reaper

Why Mamata Banerjee is loath to acknowledge non-TMC protests against CAA/NRC in Bengal

Jan 30, 2020

| Rajat Roy
Tremors Of J&K Rock Darjeeling Hills As Gorkhaland Agitators Now Want Their Pound Of Flesh

Not only India's North-East, the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir has only buoyed the call for a separate Gorkhaland

Aug 14, 2019

| Rajat Roy
BJP Gains Ground As Lack Of Trust Among Trinamool, Congress, CPM Leaves Bengal On The Boil

An air of suspicion, a history of mistrust and BJP's growing popularity is making Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee increasingly restless

Jul 03, 2019

| Rajat Roy
Trinamool Failed To Bring Changes That Bengal’s Electorate Expected: Aparna Sen

In an interview to Outlook, actor-filmmaker Aparna Sen shares her views on some of the fast-paced developments unfolding in West Bengal's polity.

Jun 20, 2019

| Pranay Sharma
Why Street Fighter Mamata Banerjee Can't Sleep Peacefully Any More

BJP's increasing vote share and clinching 18 out of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal is a warning Mamata Banerjee can't ignore for long. BJP's Mission Bengal will test Trinamool Congress in the July 2020 Municipal elections and then the 2021 Assembly polls

Jun 20, 2019

| Rajat Roy
No Lotus Bloom In Kerala; Congress Control Makes BJP, Left Sweat

Lok Sabha Elections 2019 Analysis: The Lok Sabha elections 2019 made Kerala stand out as Congress flexed its muscle once again. BJP now needs to make overtime in God's own country

May 25, 2019

| Sabin Iqbal
TMC Means Violence, Mamata Banerjee Means Violence: Kailash Vijayvargia

BJP's Kailash Vijayvargia, in-charge of West Bengal since 2015, tells Outlook that it is going to be the survival of the fittest in the volatile state.

May 25, 2019

| Bhavna Vij-Aurora
'2019 Mein Half, '21 Saal Mein Saaf': BJP's War Cry A Sound Warning To Panicky Trinamool Congress

Lok Sabha Elections 2019 Analysis: With more than 40 per cent vote share and 18 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in its pocket in West Bengal, BJP's massive inroads could wreck Trinamool Congress' unity

May 25, 2019

| Rajat Roy
Red Alert: Marx, Mao, Lenin And Stalin Set To Die A Second Death In SUCI Homes

Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) thrived when the Left Front government ruled West Bengal. They not only shielded underground comrades, the art of simple living, high thinking in a community was honed in SUCI centres.

Apr 24, 2019

| Probir Pramanik

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Left-Congress-ISF’s ‘Joint Front’ Kicks Off 2021 Assembly Poll Campaign In Kolkata

The Left parties, the Congress and the Indian Secular Front will jointly contest the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections, under the ‘Sanyukta Morcha’ (joint front) banner.

Feb 28, 2021

| Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
Left Calls For 12-Hour Bandh In Bengal, Normal Life Impacted

Bengal Bandh: Massive police presence was witnessed on the roads during the day to ensure that public transport functioned normally.

Feb 12, 2021

| Outlook Web Bureau
BJP-TMC Busy In 'Ego Battle', Congress-Left Will Uphold Bengal's Identity: Jitin Prasada

Prasada alleged that the BJP and the TMC are interested in taking the focus away from real issues because they 'want to hide the failures of their governments'.

Jan 24, 2021

| Outlook Web Bureau
Mamata Banerjee’s Decision To Skip Oppn Meet On CAA Raises Many Questions, Erodes Her Credibility

The Opposition meeting has been called by Congress president Sonia Gandhi to discuss the situation arising out of violence on various university campuses and protests in the country over the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019.

Jan 13, 2020

| Rajat Roy
Mamata Banerjee Says Will Boycott Opposition Meeting Convened By Sonia Gandhi

"I have decided to boycott the meeting convened by Sonia Gandhi on January 13 in New Delhi as I don't support the violence that the Left and Congress unleashed in West Bengal yesterday," she said.

Jan 09, 2020

| PTI
Kerala Assembly Passes Resolution Demanding Withdrawal Of Citizenship Act

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan also assured the Assembly that there won't be any detention centre in the southern state.

Dec 31, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Piyush Goyal Calls Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee Left-Leaning

Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee recently said the Indian economy is on shaky ground, adding data currently available does not hold any assurance for the country's economic revival anytime soon.

Oct 18, 2019

| PTI
Left Needs To Reclaim Traditional Bases In Kerala, West Bengal: CPI

The Left has now its lowest-ever representation in the Lok Sabha after Independence as the CPI(M) have won only three and the CPI is left with just two seats in the 2019 general election.

Jul 22, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Hammer And Sickle: How Communists Lost Relevance In Bengal

The Left’s failure to adapt to new socio-political dynamics, an utter lack of any introspection, misplaced priorities and inability to either retain old base or capture a new one has contributed to the Left being relegated to the periphery of Bengal politics.

Apr 23, 2019

| Probir Pramanik
No Lynching In Tripura In 25 Years Of Left Govt: Former CM Manik Sarkar

Incidents of child lifting, lynching and cow vigilantism are part of the BJP's "sinister design" to divert people's attention from the failures of its government at the Centre, Sarkar alleged.

Jul 29, 2018

| Outlook Web Bureau