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TopicPrakash Karat

Topic: Prakash Karat

After Yechury’s passing, CPI(M) chooses Prakash Karat as Polit Bureau coordinator

The 24th Party Congress will be held in April 2025 in Madurai. Karat will serve as coordinator of CPI(M)'s Polit Bureau and Central Committee in the interim.

Need for a rural workers union, said Prakash Karat at first P Sundarayya Memorial Lecture

P Sundarayya, a pioneer of the peasant movement in India, had zeroed in on three main classes in the Indian countryside: landlords, agricultural workers, and a differentiated peasantry.

Rahul Gandhi’s Kerala move and Modi’s changing avatars

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

CPI(M)’s shabby treatment of Somnath Chatterjee marked the beginning of its fall

If the Congress wants to take on the BJP, it must never do what the CPI(M) has been a past master of.

Win for Yechury, CPI(M) to keep the door open for an understanding with Congress

The political resolution now says ‘no political alliance’, keeping possibilities open for an electoral understanding with the Congress.

CPI(M)’s crucial Party Congress begins amid ‘split’ in the party

The question whether there should be any poll pact with Congress created a sharp divide between general secretary Sitaram Yechury and his predecessor Prakash Karat. 

Prakash Karat has led CPM towards a historic blunder by shooting down Congress alliance

Indian communists have come to regret many political blunders – from opposing Quit India to supporting Emergency. Saying no to anti-Modi alliance could be another.

Just when we thought the Indian Left could not decline any further, it proves us wrong

Over the years, CPI (M) has only witnessed a steady decline and is seen to be losing direction and lacking resonance among the youth.

Why should the Left bury itself in the confused political world of the Congress?

The question is whether the Congress is genuinely against the BJP’s policies or whether it only differentiates itself for electoral gain.

CPI(M) sinking into oblivion after two years under Yechury

As general secretary of CPI(M), Sitaram Yechury was expected to steer the party in a fresh direction and help it reinvent itself. But he has proved to be as much a failure as his dogmatic predecessor Prakash Karat. RUHI TEWARI

On Camera

Iran’s real fantasy is to take over Muslim world. Palestine is just a façade

Since 1979, Iran has used the Palestinian issue as a façade for its regional agenda to oppose American diplomacy, the Western world, and the existence of Israel.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

All about Major Bob Khathing, whose daring expedition & diplomatic parleys secured Tawang for India

The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.

From 2004 to 2024, bad news has come wrapped as good news for Congress

Congress is silently acknowledging it over-read verdict of last general election. You can see it in easy concession to SP. It will likely be more reasonable in Maharashtra & Jharkhand.