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The Election Commission has failed to act against Bharatiya Janata Party leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for inciting hatred against Muslims despite several complaints, Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury said in a letter to the poll panel on Sunday.Yechury, in a letter addressed to ...

Sitaram Yechury, general secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPIM) | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT The INDIA (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance) bloc was established to fight the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) but in Kerala, the Congress-led United Democratic Front’s (UDF) “primary concern” is to target the Left ...

Several Opposition politicians took to social media on Monday, 8 January, to hail the Supreme Court's judgment quashing the remission order granted by the Gujarat government to 11 men convicted of gangraping Bilkis Bano during the 2002 Gujarat riots. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi took to X to say that ...

At the first of the events lined up by the ruling CPI(M) in Kerala on the issue of a Uniform Civil Code (UCC), general secretary Sitaram Yechury said the government’s intent seemed to only be to sharpen Hindu-Muslim polarisation and “convert the secular, democratic Republic of India” into “a ...

Joined at the conference by Opposition leaders, including CPI(M)'s Sitaram Yechury, RJD's Tejashwi Yadav and TMC's Mahua Moitra, the Congress leader warned of “kerosene all over the country and all it needs is one spark” Joined at the conference by Opposition leaders, including CPI(M)'s Sitaram Yechury, RJD's Tejashwi Yadav ...

Opposition leaders on Thursday met President Ram Nath Kovind to raise concerns about the Delhi Police’s investigation into the violence that engulfed parts of the city in February.“The leaders impressed upon the President of India that instead of conducting an investigation into the communal violence in which 53 lives ...

Congress leader P Chidambaram on Sunday hit out at the Delhi police for naming Communist Party of India (Marxist) Secretary General Sitaram Yechury, Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogendra Yadav and others as people who had “encouraged” anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protestors, in a supplementary chargesheet filed in the Delhi riots case.“Delhi ...

The Left parties are planning a series of protests on a wide-ranging issues — the CPI has called for a protest on Monday while the CPI(M) will hold a nationwide campaign from September 17 to 22.Also read: Delhi violence case: CPI(M) slams ‘blatant abuse’ of police, Central agenciesAt a ...

The Delhi Police have named Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Sitaram Yechury, economist Jayati Ghosh, Delhi University professor Apoorvanand, Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogendra Yadav and documentary filmmaker Rahul Roy, as people who had “encouraged” the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protestors as part of a plan, The Wire reported on ...