"We will decide on joining the 'mahagatbandhan' when the time comes. Let things crystallise. For now, our priority is to defeat the BJP and ensure formation of a secular government," said the Marxist leader after a CPI-M Central Committee meeting.
Lok Sabha elections 2019: In a letter to the Law Commission he said it "negates the principles of federalism which is a fundamental feature of India’s Constitution".
This will be Kumarawamy's second term as the chief minister of Karnataka since 2007, when he last held the post for 20 months.
The 65-year-old leader had taken over as general secretary of the CPI(M) from Prakash Karat in the 21st party congress, which was held in Visakhapatnam, in 2015.
Yechury warned the people of Tripura that there would be unfavourable ramifications due to the use of money in elections.
"This is a ploy by the BJP.... By clubbing the state elections with Lok Sabha elections they think that the Modi mascot can beat the anti-incumbency," the CPI-M General Secretary said.
The CPI-M, which has already challenged electoral bonds in the Supreme Court, on Saturday termed this method of political financing a way to legalising political corruption and a resort for trade-offs between political parties and corporates.
Yechury today said they were discussing bringing an impeachment motion against the CJI in the coming budget session of Parliament.
"In this situation, there is no other option but to correct this institution (the Supreme Court) in case there is anything wrong. This can be done by an impeachment motion against the Chief Justice," CPI-M leader Yechury said.
Yechury made it clear that his party would not have truck with any “communal and corruption-tainted” party in the next Lok Sabha polls.
Yechury was speaking to the media after he wrote a letter to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley seeking a rollback of the idea of electoral bonds, calling it a "regressive" move that would legalise money laundering.
"People are dying due to Aadhaar. Is this something Modi is proud of? Aadhaar was pushed as a Money bill by this govt, all the amendments suggested by Rajya Sabha were ignored. We have now landed up here", Yechury tweeted.
RSS activist Dhrituman Joshi cited some purported remarks by Rahul Gandhi and Sitaram Yechury and alleged that they had blamed the RSS for Gauri Lankesh murder.
Sitaram Yechury today sought to know how was the Centre planning to "impose" NEET examinations without taking states on board.
A deeply divided central committee took the decision after a vote by raising of hands, capping deliberations on the contentious issue that lasted nearly four hours.
A deeply divided central committee took the decision after a vote by raising of hands, capping deliberations on the contentious issue that lasted nearly four hours.
CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury today demanded its immediate passage of the Women's Reservation Bill.
Yechury also alleged that there was an increasing sense of lawlessness among the people of the West Bengal because of the communal polarisation of TMC and BJP.
"Why this unseemly hurry with GST before putting systems in place? After all, BJP opposed it for several years, especially then CM, Gujarat (sic)," Yechury tweeted.
“They (BJP leaders) did not propose any name,” Yechury said, reiterating his party’s stand that a candidate with “impeccable secular credentials” should be the next president.
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