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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

The Third Front rises

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With a viable Third Front appearing more realistic than ever during the last five years, the CPI(M)-led Left Front has stepped up efforts to snatch regional parties currently with the Congress and BJP .

The CPI(M) looks in charge, more so after snaring the Biju Janata Dal, ending its 11-year old alliance with the BJP.

Encouraged by this early success, it is lining up more such parties for a friendship pitch.

Senior CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury, who was negotiating with Naveen Patnaik, returned to the capital and spent a busy day briefing his party colleagues and other allies on the Orissa coup.

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Friday, June 6, 2008

Top Naxal leaders now have faces

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They are two of India's most wanted and between them they command up to 20,000 trained Maoist guerrillas with a presence in nearly 200 districts of the country.

For years Ganapathi, the general secretary of the feared Communist Party of India (Maoist) and his deputy Kishenda, a politburo member, were faceless. Today, Hindustan Times brings them to the public for the first time (see box).

The Maoists, described by PM Manmohan Singh as the country's single biggest security challenge, are accused of hundreds of knings, kidnapping and looting in the vast swathes they control. Home Ministry says they were responsible for the killing of 418 civilians and 214 security personnel in 2007. In 2006, the numbers were 501 and 133 respectively.

Ganapathi and Kishenda have been living secret lives for decades, though not always in the huge expanse of jungles under their complete control. Police in different states have had inputs about having spotted them in Cochin, Rourkela, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Raipur.

The security agencies acquired the photographs of the two six months ago either through a mole in the Naxal hierarchy or from a seized computer disk from a hideout in Bastar forests. The nearly 40,000 sq km expanse of forests on Chhatisgarh's border with Orissa and Andhra Pradesh is home for most number of Maoists an estimated 10,000.

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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Speaker relents on unruly MPs

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Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Monday ended a standoff with the Opposition, by saying that he would withdraw his decision to refer the "disorderly conduct" of 32 MPs to the Privileges Committee. The move followed an understanding reached by Chatterjee, Leader of the House Pranab Mukherjee and Leader of the Opposition L.K. Advani.

As the controversy ended, the three month long budget session of the House was adjourned sine die four days before schedule amid protests by the CPI and without taking up the Women's Reservation Bill.

As the House assembled at 2 pm after a two hour adjournment, Mukherjee and Advani urged the Speaker to reconsider his action against the MPs who had defied his pleas when they were protesting against price rise on April 24.

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