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Karat, Bardhan court arrest against price rise

Around 1,000 Left activists and leaders including Communist Party of India-Marxist’s (CPI-M) Prakash Karat courted arrest here Thursday as part of a nationwide campaign against rising prices, Left sources said.
Communist Party of India (CPI) general secretary A.B. Bardhan, Forward Bloc chief Debabrata Biswas and Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) leader Abani Roy also offered themselves for [...]

Left parties to court arrest against price rise

Communist Party of India-Marxist general secretary Prakash Karat, Communist Party of India’s A.B. Bardhan and Forward Bloc leader Debabrata Biswas Thursday led a nationwide movement to court arrest against the government’s failure to check rising prices.
While the Left leaders gathered at the Parliament Street for the ‘jail bharo’ (fill prisons) movement, their colleagues began the [...]

CPI-M does not bar those with religious belief: Karat

The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) does not bar people with religious belief from joining, but they should not let their faith intrude into the affairs of the state, party chief Prakash Karat said Thursday.
Troubled by former MP from Kerala, K.S. Manoj, quitting the party last week, the CPI-M general secretary said: “The party has [...]

Karat flays central government on price rise issue

CPI-M General Secretary Prakash Karat has said the Central Government has failed to curb the price hike of essential commodities because of its wrong policies.
Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a rally organised by CPI (M), CPI and Forward Bloc, here on Wednesday Karat flayed the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) for its inability [...]

Chidambaram hits out at CPI-M for linking Mamata to train hijack

Home Minister P Chidambaram has hit out at CPI(M) for seeking to link Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee to Rajdhani Express hijack and talked tough on Maoist violence, saying no democracy can accept “violence as an instrument of change”.
“CPI(M) seems to know more about what is happening in Trinamool Congress than what is happening [...]