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The Hindu
05-05-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Bihar polls will be the first test of the call to defeat BJP: CPI(M)‘s M.A. Baby
Efforts will be made to chalk out a strategy for the Mahagathbandhan to defeat the BJP in the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, said Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary M.A. Baby, who was in Bihar on Monday (May 5, 2025) ahead of the polls due in October-November this year. This was Mr. Baby's first visit to the State following his election to the CPI(M) top post. In 2020 polls to the 243-member Bihar Assembly, CPI(M) contested four seats and won two of them. Party candidates Ajay Kumar and Satyendra Yadav won from Bibhutipur (Samastipur district) and Manjhi (Saran district) respectively. Before leaving for Kerala, Mr. Baby is scheduled to visit Madhubani on Tuesday (May 6) to meet district-level party leaders and workers. 'CPI(M)'s 24th Congress was held at Madurai in the first week of April, where party leaders gave a call to defeat the RSS-controlled BJP and its allies by forging the broadest possible unity of the Left, democratic and secular forces all over India. The first test of this call will come in the upcoming Bihar assembly elections,' he said. Call for nationwide strike 'CPI(M) welcomes the fact that Mahagathbandhan of Bihar has already begun united and serious preparations to achieve this aim,' he said, while appreciating that 'Mahagathbandhan of Bihar has whole heartedly given a call to make the May 20 nationwide strike with a great success'. The Left parties and Samyukta Kisan Morcha have given a call for a nationwide strike on May 20 against 'anti-workers, anti-peasants and pro-corporate policies of PM Modi-led Central government'. Also read | Tejashwi is the CM face of the Mahagathbandhan: Manoj Jha In the 2020 polls in the State, the Left parties — Communist Party of India (CPI), CPI(M) and Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) [CPI(M-L)] — altogether contested from 29 seats and won 16 of them: CPI(M-L) won 12 seats and CPI and CPI(M) won two each. CPI(M-L) had contested on 19 seats, CPI on six and CPI(M) on four. At a Mahagathbandhan meeting in Patna on Sunday (May 4), CPI(M-L) leader Dipankar Bhattacharya extended support to the nationwide bandh on May 20. 'May 20 will be a day for workers' rights and all constituents of the Mahagathbandhan will stand together on the day. It will be a show of unity ahead of Assembly elections in Bihar,' Mr. Bhattacharya said. Earlier, a meeting of Bihar CPI(M) State secretariat was held under the guidance of party's national general secretary M.A. Baby and Polit Bureau member Ashok Dhawale in Patna, said State secretary of the party Lalan Choudhary.
Time of India
05-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
INDIA bloc to defeat NDA in Bihar elections: CPI(M)
1 2 Patna: CPI(M) general secretary Mariam Alexander Baby on Monday said the six-party Grand Alliance (GA) of the INDIA bloc is firmly on course to defeat the NDA in the upcoming Bihar assembly elections, scheduled for Oct-Nov, and unseat the Nitish Kumar-led govt. "As a sign of its unity, the GA partners recently held a convention of their party functionaries and also discussed their internal matters and popular issues facing the people. They have decided to defeat the BJP and dislodge the NDA govt," Baby said, adding that the question of a chief ministerial face for the GA was "not a big problem". He was addressing reporters at the party's state headquarters here. This was Baby's first visit to Bihar since becoming the CPI(M) general secretary at the party's 24th congress, held in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, early last month. "The political resolution adopted at the congress with one voice has given a call to defeat the RSS-controlled BJP and its allies by forging the broadest possible unity of Left, democratic and secular forces in the country and in each state," he said. He described the Bihar assembly elections as the first major test of this resolution, adding, "The CPM welcomes the fact that the Bihar GA has already begun serious preparations unitedly to achieve it." by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like 15 Most Beautiful Women Ever Paperela Undo Baby alleged that the NDA's prospects in Bihar were bleak, blaming CM Nitish Kumar for entering into an "opportunistic alliance" with the BJP, which he accused of committing "the biggest atrocity in the form of communal violence". While welcoming the Centre's announcement on a caste-based and socio-economic survey, he questioned its implementation. "The big question is when and how will it be held?" he said. State secretary Lalan Choudhary said the party would implement the resolutions of the Madurai meet in full with particular emphasis on strengthening and expanding the Bihar unit.
