Cpm Loses In West Bengal

With the CPI(M) fast losing its importance in Bengal politics, the party is all set to revamp its party organisation by removing ageing leaders and inducting more young faces, a senior party leader said.

Mamata Banerjee's ruling Trinamool Congress made short work of bye-elections in West Bengal today, snatching the Noapara Assembly seat from the Congress and retaining the Uluberia parliamentary constituency. The BJP has kept up its recent good run in the state and is second in both. The Congress, celebrating a comeback in Rajasthan, is in the deepe...

The Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal today warned employees that they will lose a day's pay and benefits if they don't come to office on Monday, the day Left parties have called a state-wide strike against centre's ban on old 500 and 1,000 rupee notes. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee will even hold a mega march in Kolkata to protest the ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee lost her cool again today when a reporter told her that life in the state was partially hit by the 48-hour strike called by central trade unions.

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), the party's highest decision making body is meeting today in Delhi to discuss the party's performance in the recent Bengal and Kerala polls, but caretaker West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is not attending the meeting.Though the CPI-M claimed that the decision was pr...

A day after a CPM zonal committee member was lynched in post-poll violence in Midnapore in West Bengal, the party's Polit Bureau has issued a statement condemning the killing of the leader."This murder perpetrated by TMC men is the first death in the post-poll violence. Reports are pouring in of widespread attacks on Party offices, houses of cadres...

Very few politicians, and fewer still with no political background, have had such a high-profile entry into the political arena as Trinamool Congress nominee Manish Gupta. The former West Bengal Chief Secretary emerged as a giant killer in his maiden electoral battle, humbling Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee at Jadavpur constituency by 16,68...

West Bengal is all green this election, thanks to the victory of Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress. And for CPM, it's a huge setback.Adding insult to injury is the loss of its heavyweights, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta.While Mr Bhattacharjee lost by 16,777 votes from Jadavpur constituency, Mr Dasgupta...

With the CPI(M) fast losing its importance in Bengal politics, the party is all set to revamp its party organisation by removing ageing leaders and inducting more young faces, a senior party leader said.

Mamata Banerjee's ruling Trinamool Congress made short work of bye-elections in West Bengal today, snatching the Noapara Assembly seat from the Congress and retaining the Uluberia parliamentary constituency. The BJP has kept up its recent good run in the state and is second in both. The Congress, celebrating a comeback in Rajasthan, is in the deepe...

The Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal today warned employees that they will lose a day's pay and benefits if they don't come to office on Monday, the day Left parties have called a state-wide strike against centre's ban on old 500 and 1,000 rupee notes. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee will even hold a mega march in Kolkata to protest the ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee lost her cool again today when a reporter told her that life in the state was partially hit by the 48-hour strike called by central trade unions.

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), the party's highest decision making body is meeting today in Delhi to discuss the party's performance in the recent Bengal and Kerala polls, but caretaker West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is not attending the meeting.Though the CPI-M claimed that the decision was pr...

A day after a CPM zonal committee member was lynched in post-poll violence in Midnapore in West Bengal, the party's Polit Bureau has issued a statement condemning the killing of the leader."This murder perpetrated by TMC men is the first death in the post-poll violence. Reports are pouring in of widespread attacks on Party offices, houses of cadres...

Very few politicians, and fewer still with no political background, have had such a high-profile entry into the political arena as Trinamool Congress nominee Manish Gupta. The former West Bengal Chief Secretary emerged as a giant killer in his maiden electoral battle, humbling Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee at Jadavpur constituency by 16,68...

West Bengal is all green this election, thanks to the victory of Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress. And for CPM, it's a huge setback.Adding insult to injury is the loss of its heavyweights, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta.While Mr Bhattacharjee lost by 16,777 votes from Jadavpur constituency, Mr Dasgupta...