The Left parties on Sunday virtually rejected Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's desire to work with them in future and asked him to reverse his government's economic policies.
An all-party delegation led by Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Sitaram Yechury would visit Kathmandu next week at the invitation of the Nepal's new government.- Senior CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury on Saturday strongly rebutted a report quoting him as saying that the Speaker's office was involved in the alleged cash-for-vote scam.
- Striking back at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the CPM on Thursday said it was strange that after four years of Left support, he has alleged that they wanted him to behave like a "bonded slave".
While the suspense over Somnath Chatterjee's resignation as speaker continues, the CPM has on Wednesday accepted that including his name in the list of party MPs without a rider was a mistake.- Amid mounting criticism from various political parties, the CPI(M) has defended the Left's decision to vote against the UPA Government during the July 22 confidence motion along with "communal" BJP, saying one cannot choose one's co-passengers during a journey.
- The CPI(M) on Wednesday dismissed as "speculation", reports suggesting that the UPA-Left rift on the Indo-US nuclear deal has put a question mark on the continuation of Somnath Chatterjee as Lok Sabha Speaker.
- A day after the virtual collapse of talks between the UPA and Left over the Indo-US nuclear deal, the government on Thursday appeared to be weighing various options before it on whether to push the agreement forward.
- Ahead of the UPA-Left committee meeting, the CPI(M) on Thursday suggested that it is not opposed to a safeguards agreement with the IAEA but maintained its objections to the nuclear deal with the US.
- Asserting it would oppose any hike in fuel prices, the CPI-M on Tuesday said that instead of burdening the commom man, the Centre should offset losses of oil companies through profits earned from taxes on import of crude oil.
The UPA-Left committee on Indo-US nuclear deal on Tuesday decided to meet again on May 28 after the government made a vain bid to get the outside allies' support for going ahead with securing the India-specific safeguards agreement with the IAEA.
Despite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's assurances on Monday that inflation would be checked, the government’s Left allies do not seem to be relenting, with the CPI-M threatening to organise a "militant protest" on May 15.
Seeking to put an end to the controversy over US President George W Bush's remarks on the food habits of Indians, US Ambassador David Mulford dismissed suggestions that the President had made any critical comments and said that "hostile political commentary is not productive."- The UPA government is all set to brief the Left parties on the deliberations at the IAEA over an India-specific safeguards agreement with regard to the Indo-US nuclear deal.
A day after threatening the ruling coalition with dire consequences, if it failed to check the spiralling prices, senior CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury met UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Monday and sought urgent steps by the government in order to curb inflation.
The CPI-M said that it was not in favour of cobbling a cut and paste third front for elections. CPI-M Politburo member Sitaram Yechury said that the Third Front would be formed based on three policies - opposing communalism, opposing anti-people content of economic reforms and opposing all efforts to make India a subordinate ally of US imperialism.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Monday gave notices in both houses of parliament for suspension of question hour to raise the issue of attack on the party office allegedly by Rashtriya Seva Sangh (RSS) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
