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The Hindu
26-05-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
CM Rangasamy ‘betrayed' people of Puducherry by not attending NITI Aayog meeting: CPI
Communist Party of India (CPI) national secretary K. Narayana has accused Puducherry Chief Minister N. Rangasamy of 'betraying' the people of the Union Territory (UT) by not attending the recently held Governing Council meeting of the NITI Aayog in New Delhi. Addressing a press conference in the UT on Monday (May 26, 2025), the CPI leader said the NITI Aayog meeting was a platform for the Chief Minister to raise issues pertaining to the UT. 'The meeting was not a personal event of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the Chief Minister to skip. The meeting was held by the Prime Minister of the country to discuss issues concerning the States and country at a large. Mr. Rangasamy, by deciding to abstain from the meeting, has betrayed the interests of the people of the UT. The Chief Minister is not serious about getting Statehood for Puducherry,' he said. Mr. Narayana also criticised the Prime Minister for keeping mum on United States President Donald Trump's statement that he had brokered the Indo-Pak truce after India launched Operation Sindoor. He also slammed the Central government for not accepting the offer made by Maoist leaders for talks and negotiations. He further informed that the CPI would be holding the Party Congress in September in Chandigarh.
New Indian Express
04-05-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
CPI(M) outlines expansion strategy under new leadership; to engage 10 lakh members, highlight past reforms
NEW DELHI: With new leadership in place, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has outlined a comprehensive programme to maintain its influence and expand its support base across various states, while also organising struggles rooted in local issues. Within a month, the party aims to engage all 10 lakh members through a series of meetings at both the state and district levels, and to implement key decisions taken at its recent Party Congress. Additionally, the CPM plans to actively highlight and remind the public of the reforms it introduced in the states where it governed for years. Meetings have already taken place in two states—Punjab and Kerala. 'We will have our task identified soon. We have prepared the note, which has been sent to the states, outlining how the key decisions of the Party Congress are to be communicated within the party. The message will reach the entire organisation by mid-June,' said newly-elected CPM general secretary MA Baby. 'To expand, we have to work with the poorest of the poor. They should feel that this red-flag party is theirs—and that through no other party can they hope to make progress in life.' As part of broader efforts to sustain political momentum, Baby stressed the need to consolidate the party's existing base. 'We should ensure that whatever local influence we have, there should not be any further erosion.'
Deccan Herald
28-04-2025
- Politics
- Deccan Herald
CPI(M) to add 'live-in' option in Party Congress form
The issue came up as the 'Credentials Committee' of the Party Congress in Madurai earlier this month was encountered with one who did not fit into the 'traditional understanding of relations' as he is in a 'live-in' relationship and was reported in the Credentials Report placed before the Party Congress and later approved by it.
The Guardian
05-03-2025
- Business
- The Guardian
Explained: what is China's Two Sessions meeting?
China's annual Two Sessions meetings begins this week, with thousands of political and community delegates descending on Beijing from across mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau to ratify legislation, personnel changes and the budget over about two weeks of highly choreographed meetings. The event is called the 'two sessions' because both the National People's Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) hold their annual meetings separately, but at the same time. The CPPCC is an advisory body, with little real political influence but often sees some outside-the-box proposals for issues like China's demographic crisis. Its members include business executives, celebrities and celebrated individuals who previously included the likes of actor Jackie Chan and basketballer Yao Ming. The 3,000-member NPC is the Chinese Communist party's legislative body, but is largely a 'rubber stamp' parliament, having never rejected a bill put before it. The meetings include 'work report' speeches by the premier, and sometimes – but not always – speeches by the party leader. Official economic targets are set, military budgets announced, and changes in the ranks of party leadership bodies are confirmed. The Two Sessions gathering has hosted hugely significant policy changes in the past. In 2023 it saw the formalisation of Xi Jinping's precedent-busting third term as leader. In 2020 the NPC unveiled plans for the national security law now in place over Hong Kong. This year observers are looking out for major economic stimulus policies to address China's struggling economy and high youth unemployment, as well as changes in the party's approach to the tech industry. The sector was out in the cold for a number of years, apparently having strayed too far from Xi's ideology. But a recent symposium saw several high profile executives welcomed and greeted by Xi, broadcast on state media. There will likely be pronouncements on Taiwan. Xi and the Chinese Communist party (CCP) have long voiced their intentions to annex Taiwan, refusing to rule out using force to do so. Taiwan's government and people increasingly oppose the prospect of Chinese rule, and the situation has grown increasingly hostile and precarious. In the last few weeks language coming from the CCP about Taiwan has grown a little harsher, according to observers who watch carefully for even the most minute changes in the CCP's carefully crafted statements. And then of course in the background, is the return of Trump and his tariffs on China. The Two Sessions, like all of the CCP's political meetings, are highly choreographed and planned to the tiniest detail – but unexpected things still happen. At the 2022 Party Congress Peng Lifa staged a brave protest at Sitong Bridge in Beijing. Peng was detained, his location still unknown, and authorities now closely guard Beijing bridges during political events to ensure it won't be repeated. At that same 2022 event, foreign press captured the extraordinary moment that former president Hu Jintao was physically removed from his seat next to Xi and shuffled out of the room. The sessions are attended by a huge crowd of foreign media, many of them flying in for the meeting and a rare chance to interact with CCP officials in person. In 2024, the annual premier's press conference was abruptly cancelled without explanation, closing down one of the already limited forums for transparency.
Euronews
17-02-2025
- Politics
- Euronews
Kim Jong-un celebrates final phase of construction project with enormous explosion
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un detonated a massive explosion at a groundbreaking ceremony in the country's capital on Sunday as part of the final phase of an initiative to build thousands of new apartments. In footage released by state media on Monday, the 41-year-old spoke to a large crowd, many of whom were wearing protective helmets. By activating a switch, Kim triggered a large blast in the Hwasong district, a suburb of Pyongyang where many high-rise buildings have been built in recent years. Sunday's event comes as part of a five-year drive to construct 50,000 apartments in the capital. "With the 10,000-household construction project of this year, the construction of 50,000 houses in Pyongyang City, which has been vigorously implemented since the Party Congress, has finally entered the final stage of completion," Kim said in his address. The ceremony took place on the anniversary of his father's birthday, an occasion known in North Korea as the Day of the Shining Star. Kim also visited his family's mausoleum on Sunday for the first time in four years. It houses the embalmed bodies of his father and grandfather.
