New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) West Bengal’s new Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari, on Saturday took oath of office and secrecy in a grand ceremony at Kolkata’s Brigade Parade Ground, heading a tiny yet well-represented cabinet in terms of gender, region, and experience. It will be the first Bharatiya Janata Party government in the state. It will also be the first time in 55 years that the government will be headed by someone from outside Kolkata.Suvendu hails from Purba Medinipur district in …
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New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) India’s Left parties, once a powerful force in national and regional politics, are now confronting the possibility of being out of power across all states for the first time in more than five decades. To understand the magnitude of this moment, it helps to revisit the past. In 1996, veteran CPI-M leader Jyoti Basu, who had already served as Chief Minister of West Bengal for two decades, came close to becoming Prime Minister as part of the United Front coalition. Although …
New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) The Union Cabinet has cleared the proposal to rename Kerala as ‘Keralam’, paving the way for a constitutional amendment in Parliament and triggering a fresh political debate. While the BJP welcomed the decision as recognition of the state’s cultural and linguistic identity, the Congress alleged a “dual policy,” questioning why a similar long-pending demand to rename West Bengal has not received the Centre’s approval.Reacting to the development, BJP National Spoke…
Kolkata, Jan 26 (IANS) A social media post by writer-turned-politician and Trinamool Congress (TMC) legislator Manoranjan Bapari, in which he praised the courtesy and magnanimity of workers from both the BJP and the CPI(M), has triggered discussion and surprise in political circles in West Bengal.Bapari, the TMC MLA from Balagarh in Hooghly district, shared the post on Monday morning, citing two personal experiences — one involving BJP workers and the other CPI(M) youth activists — to underlin…
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 26 (IANS) In a significant departure from its long-held ideological stance, the CPI(M) has decided to accept the Padma Vibhushan awarded posthumously to legendary party leader and former Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan.The decision marks a rare shift for the party, which has historically rejected state honours, arguing that Communists do not seek or accept awards conferred by the ruling establishment.The Padma awards were announced on Sunday, with V.S. Achuthanan…
Kolkata, Jan 14 (IANS) A record number of 25,000 “unmapped” voters have been summoned for hearings on claims and objections on the draft voters’ list in West Bengal from the single Assembly constituency of Satgachia in South 24 Parganas district, the seat of the former Chief Minister and iconic Indian Marxist, Late Jyoti Basu.In fact, he was the last CPI(M) legislator from that constituency to be elected for five consecutive terms, since 1977, the year the 34-year-long CPI(M)-led Left Fron…
Bengaluru, Jan 6 (IANS) Commenting on the celebration by the Chief Minister and his supporters for Siddaramaiah equalling the record as the longest-serving CM of Karnataka after late D. Devaraj Urs, the BJP’s Rajya Sabha MP from Karnataka, Lahar Singh Siroya stated that he wished they were more modest.Taking to social media X, Lahar Singh stated the factcheck on Siddaramaiah’s record as the longest serving Chief Minister has brought out a revelation in this regard.”The newspapers today have clai…