Coalition government is future of Indian politics: Biman Bose

August 15th, 2009 KOLKATA - Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leaders Saturday formed a human chain here to observe India's 63rd Independence Day. "We decided to take up this noble initiative of forming a long human wall on this occasion with a view to strengthening our democratic environment and also to save our individual democratic rights," state CPI-M secretary Biman Bose told reporters here.

June 25th, 2009 KOLKATA - Faced with stringent opposition from allies to the implementation of the central government's ban on the Communist Party of India-Maoists, West Bengal's ruling Left Front (LF) Thursday said the state cabinet's core group will discuss the matter. "The West Bengal chief minister (Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee) has said the state government will decide how and in which manner the ban will be implemented.

June 22nd, 2009 KOLKATA - Contradicting Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's statement that his government would give "serious thought" to banning the Communist Party of India-Maoist, the ruling Left Front in West Bengal Monday said it was against a ban and the rebel outfit has to be fought politically. We have discussed this matter even in the past and decided that this outfit which propagates a wrong political line cannot be countered through a ban, Left Front chairman Biman Bose said in a media statement.

May 9th, 2009 KOLKATA - The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Saturday denied any division within the party on the issue of not supporting the Congress in government formation after the polls, but said it would decide its strategy once the results were available. Addressing a meet-the-press at the Kolkata Press Club here, CPI-M politburo member Biman Bose said his party and the other Left outfits were fighting the elections to defeat both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and install a Third Front-led regime.

April 29th, 2009 KOLKATA - The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) will use its rich experience of running a Left Front government in West Bengal to make the Third Front a success if it wins the Lok Sabha elections, says the party's politburo member Biman Bose. He accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of encouraging 'divisive and fissiparous' forces by aligning with the pro-Gorkhaland Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) in the Darjeeling constituency in the northern part of the state.

April 2nd, 2009 KOLKATA - The Third Front should try formulating alternative economic policies to deal with the economic slowdown if it came to power at the centre, West Bengal's ruling Left Front chairman Biman Bose said here Thursday. 'The economic condition of the country is affected due to the slowdown.

March 22nd, 2009 KOLKATA - Chairman of West Bengal's ruling Left Front Biman Bose Saturday alleged that the US was 'interfering' in India's internal affairs by organising dialogues with sections of the country's minority communities. However, a US diplomat in the city denied any such meetings.

March 22nd, 2009 KOLKATA - Chairman of West Bengal's ruling Left Front Biman Bose Saturday alleged that the US was 'interfering' in India's internal affairs by organising dialogues with sections of the country's minority communities. However, a US diplomat in the city denied any such meetings.

February 9th, 2009 KOLKATA - The Trinamool Congress Tuesday asked the state's ruling Left Front (LF) chairman Biman Bose to explain the derogatory comments against its leader Mamata Banerjee he allegedly made at a rally two days ago. 'Our party's lawyer today sent a notice to Bose asking him for a clarification on his comment that he made during the rally.

January 12th, 2009 KOLKATA - Senior Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader and West Bengal Transport Minister Subhas Chakraborty has written to party state secretary Biman Bose asking that Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee be reinstated into the party. 'I've already written a letter to Biman Bose since he is the instrumental head of the party in West Bengal.

January 6th, 2009 KOLKATA - Terming Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's acts as 'childish', West Bengal's ruling Left Front chairman Biman Bose Wednesday said that state's main opposition party lacked any political ideology, after Banerjee led an agitation against the alleged anhandling of a taxi driver by a policeman here. 'Mamata Banerjee often acts childishly which is not desirable in Indian politics.

January 5th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal's ruling Left Front chairman Biman Bose Tuesday said the by-election in troubled Nandigram constituency was marred by opposition Trinamool Congress threats to voters. 'Apparently everything was very peaceful in Nandigram during the assembly by-poll Monday.

January 4th, 2009 KOLKATA - People should come forward and protest against the consumption of poisonous country-made liquor, West Bengal's ruling Left Front (LF) chairman Biman Bose said Monday, as the toll in a hooch tragedy here rose to 23. 'This is a social responsibility for all of us to protest and destroy the illicit country-made liquor shops in West Bengal,' Bose told reporters here.

December 31st, 2008 KOLKATA - West Bengal's ruling Left Front will begin mobilising cadres for the general elections this year with a rally here Jan 8, hoping it will not suffer the reverses of the panchayat polls last year. The rally will be held at the sprawling Brigade Parade Ground, state Left Front chairman Biman Bose announced Thursday.

December 31st, 2008 KOLKATA - West Bengal's ruling Left Front will begin mobilising cadres for the general elections this year with a rally here Feb 8, hoping it will not suffer the reverses of the panchayat polls last year. The rally will be held at the sprawling Brigade Parade Ground, state Left Front chairman Biman Bose announced Thursday.