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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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'.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.