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Distantly Close | The monsoon session's no-trust motion debate failed to enrich

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NDA members oppose the Motion of No-Confidence in the Lok Sabha during the Monsoon session of Parliament.

Published on Aug 14, 2023 05:27 pm IST

Lok Sabha 2019 constituency: Once held by Somnath Chatterjee, Bolpur is in Trinamool’s kitty

The Trinamool Congress swept the Bolpur parliamentary constituency, once a pocket borough of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), in West Bengal in the last Lok Sabha election.

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Updated on Mar 17, 2019 02:00 pm IST

Somnath Chatterjee’s death brings Left’s internal differences to the fore

In 2008, the CPI(M) top brass had asked Somnath Chatterjee to resign from the Lok Sabha Speaker’s post and vote against the UPA government in the trust vote. When he refused to comply, the party, then under the leadership of Prakash Karat, expelled him for life.

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Updated on Aug 14, 2018 03:58 pm IST

He fine tuned democracy and helped safeguard secularism, federalism: Sitaram Yechury on Somnath Chatterjee

Somnath Chatterjee had a significant role in initiating discussions over the formation of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), says CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury.

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Published on Aug 13, 2018 11:17 pm IST

For Somnath Chatterjee, the House was supreme

From the Communist stock to which Chatterjee belonged, he rated Joyti Basu as his idol, held HS Surjeet in high esteem, was affectionate towards Sitaram Yechury and called Biman Bose his younger brother

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Published on Aug 13, 2018 08:22 pm IST