Kolkata, July 13 (IANS) CPI-M leader Layek Ali was arrested by the Special Task Force (STF) of West Bengal Police on Sunday night in connection with the unrest in Baruipur. Ali had contested this year’s Assembly election as the Left Front candidate from the Baruipur Paschim constituency.Police did not specify the charges under which he was arrested. However, according to sources, investigators found his alleged links to incidents of road blockades, vandalism and attacks on police personnel durin…
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Kolkata, June 8 (IANS) At least 15 CPI(M) workers were injured and six were arrested after a clash broke out between party workers and police in the Jadavpur area of South Kolkata during a protest against a hawker eviction drive at the railway station.The clash occurred on Sunday night, and on Monday members of the CPI(M)’s student wing, Student’s Federation of India (SFI), protested against the police lathi-charge outside Jadavpur University campus, demanding the immediate release of those ar…
Kolkata, March 12 (IANS) Two senior leaders of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Politburo member and the party’s West Bengal state secretary Md Salim, and central committee member Sujan Chakraborty, a former leader of the Left Legislative parties in the West Bengal Assembly — are unlikely to contest the forthcoming Assembly elections in the state scheduled later this year.The matter was discussed at the state secretariat meeting of the party.A state secretariat member said that the views …
New Delhi, Feb 27 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been leading a sustained protest against the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls, lately claiming that the poll exercise may lead to the removal of 1.2 crore voters. The State Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) unit has termed Mamata Banerjee’s response to the SIR as “unfounded”, arising out of fears of an imminent defeat in the upcoming Assembly poll.Meanwhile, the Congress and CPI-M hold…