Left Trusts Young Turks to Take on Political Heavyweights in Bengal
âTraditionally, CPI(M)âs politics has centred around land rights and peasantsâ movements. But these young leaders have a much broader political perspective, said Rajat Roy, assistant professor at Presidency University.
CPI(M) candidate in Bally Dipsita Dhar campaigns in her constituency. Photo: Author provided
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Kolkata: In a significant departure from its erstwhile inclination to put faith in the old guard, the CPI(M) has named a number of young candidates â mostly present or former student leaders â for the upcoming assembly elections in West Bengal.
The Wire in November 2020 had quoted senior CPI(M) leader Sujan Chakraborty as having said that the party was nurturing young upcoming leaders who would be brought to the forefront of electoral politics at the right time.
Pedagogue of the oppressed
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Bengal assembly polls: Young nominees find place in CPI(M) list
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Probe ordered into ‘suicide’ by college girl
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Education Minister Adimulapu Suresh on Thursday inquired into the circumstances that led to the alleged suicide by a girl student Dasari Lasya of Sri Chaitanya College girls’ campus at Punadipadu in Krishna district on Thursday.
The Minister directed the department officials to conduct a probe and submit a detailed report.
Meanwhile, leaders of Student Federation of India (SFI), staged a dharna at the government general hospital where the girl’s body was kept in the mortuary, and demanded that the government look into the disturbing trend of increasing number of suicides by students studying in corporate institutions.