Following the killing of Communist Party of India (Maoist) supremo and general secretary Nambala Keshava Rao, along with 26 other Maoists, top left parties in India — CPI(M), CPI, CPI(ML) Liberation, and others — issued statements condemning the state action.
Communist Party of India (Marxist) West Bengal secretary Mohammed Salim alleged that violence in Murshidabad during protests against the Waqf Amendment Act occurred due to a breakdown of law and order and blamed the TMC and BJP for communal tensions.
Veteran leader Mariam Alexander Baby, widely known as M A Baby, has been elected as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] at the party’s 24th Congress in Madurai.
Demanding an immediate ceasefire in genocide-hit Gaza, the 24th Congress of the CPI(M) on Friday said Israel should be declared as an “apartheid State” and dealt with accordingly.
A delegation from the CPI(M), headed by Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat, visited the family of one-month-old, who was killed after being crushed under a police boot on Sunday in Rajasthan’s Alwar district, expressing solidarity with the grieving Muslim family.