IT was on the day of the triumph of the Great October Socialist Revolution, on its 47th anniversary, November 7 in 1964 that the CPI(M) formally announced its formation with its revolutionary Programme at the conclusion of its 7th Congress. The CPI(M) continues to maintain that the origins of the Indian Communist Party lie in its formation in Tashkent on October 17, 1920.

TRIPURA Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has written a letter to the prime minister, on November 3, apprising him of the problems faced by the state and its people with regards to MGNREGA allocations. Sarkar said despite being the best performing state in carrying out MGNREGA projects, the central government has reduced allocation for Tripura, and requested the prime minister to look into the problems of the state sympathetically and advise the concerned ministry to release funds immediately.

FINALLY, elections to the Delhi assembly appear set to take place early next year. The union cabinet, at a special cabinet meeting presided over by the prime minister on November 4, ratified Delhi Lt. Governor’s recommendation to dissolve the Delhi assembly, with immediate effect, and, thus, begin the process of fresh election in the nation’s capital. With this, the process for November 25 by-elections to three seats vacated by BJP members elected to the Lok Sabha should automatically stand cancelled.

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on November 5, 2014.

THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly condemns the brutal killing in Chattargram, Kashmir of two innocent schoolboys, one of them a student of Class 7, by the army. Two others were seriously injured in the firing.

CPI(M) Delegation led by General Secretary Prakash Karat met Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, who was on a State visit to India, on November 27 . The other members of the delegation were Sitaram Yechury, Polit Bureau member and R Arun Kumar, member, International Department of the CPI(M).