SFI demands increase in seats in both higher secondary, UG level in West Bengal
SFI state general secretary said in a statement on Tuesday, to accommodate this increased number of students raising the seats at both levels in higher secondary schools and colleges/universities are the need of the hour. The SFI is the students arm of the CPI(M) (Source: PTI) PTI
Updated Aug 04, 2021, 11:11 AM IST
The Students Federation of India (SFI) has demanded an increase in seats for students in higher secondary and undergraduate level as the pass percentage in both Class 10 and 12 West Bengal board examination this year was 100 hundred per cent.
Party before self, CPM tells its fan-followed youth leaders in Bengal
CPM had banked on youth power to gain foothold in its erstwhile turf by fielding many young candidates under 30, prodding their social media savvy followers to launch massive campaigns.
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KOLKATA: Despite drawing a blank in the Bengal election, the popularity of the young crop of leaders fielded by the CPM has seen an uptick on social media platforms, drawing murmurs of protest from party elders, who believe the emerging culture of individual fan clubs does not gel with the tenets of CPM that puts party before self.
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Many grassroots CPI(M) workers held its leaders responsible for the broken relationship between the top party leadership and its cadres.
Activists of CPI (M) stage a protest rally against hike in electricity bills, in Kolkata. Photo: PTI/Ashok Bhaumik
Politics14/May/2021
Kolkata: May 2, 2021 turned out to be a historic day for the Left parties for two reasons. First, by winning the assembly election in Kerala, the Left Democratic Front (LDF) broke a long cycle of one-term government in the state which was continuing since 1977. Second, the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front failed to win even a single seat in the West Bengal assembly election. In a first since independence, there wonât be a Left representative in the Bengal state assembly.Â
The CPM bagged a little over 28 lakh votes this Bengal election. Trinamul won 35 lakh votes in South 24-Parganas alone, and 31 lakh in North 24-Parganas.
These figures, from the Election Commission, reflect the drubbing the onetime rulers of Bengal took this election almost as succinctly as the number of seats they won: zero.
The CPM’s vote share was a pitiful 4.70 per cent less than a tenth that of Trinamul which, of course, contested 289 seats compared to the Marxists’ 139.
“The CPM, once a king in Bengal politics, became a beggar within a decade,” political scientist Biswanath Chakraborty said.
He was referring to the haemorrhage that began in the CPM’s vote bank with the 2009 general election in the aftermath of the Singur and Nandigram movements and could not be stanched even after 12 years.