Dipankar Bhattacharya

CPI (ML) leader Dipankar Bhattacharya criticized the Bihar government's "faulty policies," alleging they empowered the BJP and led to a "bulldozer raj" suppressing the poor and youth. He questioned the electoral process, citing voter list deletions, and condemned land acquisition for corporations.

In a spirited conclusion to their state conference, the CPI(ML) has committed to extend a helping hand to ten lakh underprivileged families while backing the strike of agricultural laborers.

The CPI(ML) is gearing up to make its mark by contesting 10 seats in West Bengal and a handful in Assam, forming alliances with other Left parties. In Tamil Nadu, they're setting their sights on 15 seats, teaming up with the DMK, while in Kerala, they're aiming for three crucial seats.

ML-Liberation’s general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya talks about why Bihar is also looking to the Left for bringing about a paradigm shift in the mode of politics and why multiple Left outfits have fielded their candidates from the same seats in about 10-12 constituencies.

CPI (ML) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya, while referring to Madhubani firing, said on Saturday that mere transfer of Madhubani DM and SP would not solve the problem.

Serial blasts in the state capital notwithstanding, the crowd at the Hoonkar Rally remained quiet and unmoved after initial panic.The participants in and around the Gandhi Maidan behaved with maturity.

CPI (ML) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya on Thursday said smaller parties have as much right to exist and function in a democracy as bigger parties.

CPI(ML) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya on Tuesday said PM Narendra Modi most probably will opt to hold parliamentary elections at the end of this year itself.

PATNA: CPI ML general secretary, Dipankar Bhattacharya on Saturday said that his party would prefer to float Peoples Democratic Alliance as alternative to the other two alliances.

Those, who have ruined a state, cannot imagine to rule over the country, according to CPI-ML general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya.

CPI(ML) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya on Sunday called upon his party’s rank and file to launch militant struggle for the rights of the poor and homeless to education, employment and homestead land.

CPI (ML) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya on Saturday said the Election Commission should ensure that the code of conduct prescribed for electioneering is observed in letter and spirit. He raised questions over PM Narendra Modi recently addressing a rally in Patna even as polling was in progress in parts of the district.

CPI(ML) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya on Friday sought for replicating the ‘Bihar model’ of Grand Alliance (GA) governance at the national-level to checkmate BJP which he alleged is trying to destabilize the opposition governments.

CPI(ML) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya on Monday held discussions with RJD chief Lalu Prasad on the current political situation in the country. The two leaders also discussed matters related to opposition unity ahead of the 2024 parliamentary elections.

Even as PM Narendra Modi on Friday extended a conciliatory hand towards the opposition on the floor of Lok Sabha and called the country’s Constitution the government’s ‘dharmagranth’, CPI(ML) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya said the Constitution should be considered a “book of resolutions” for the government to run the affairs of the country. He said quasi-religious terms like ‘dharmagranth’ and ‘as reflecting tradition’ should not be invoked for the Constitution as it leads to more discordance and confusion both at the level of the government and in the society at large.

The ‘Bihar model’ that the CPI(ML) and other Left parties evolved to build a broad coalition against the BJP and its alliance partners in Bihar in the recently concluded assembly elections might be replicated in the poll-bound West Bengal, Assam and a few other states next year.

CPI (ML) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya on Friday said the countdown for Nitish Kumar-led NDA regime has begun.

Lashing out at CM Nitish Kumar and the BJP for making 'irresponsible' statements over serial blasts on October 27, CPI (ML) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya, on Tuesday, said they were hurling allegations at each other to divert the public from real issues in the 2014 general elections.

CPI (ML) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya on Thursday accused the BJP-led Narendra Modi government at the Centre of using terror attack at the Uri military base, unresolved problem of militants in Kashmir and war hysteria as a ploy to “cover” raging dissatisfaction arising from atrocities on Dalits in Gujarat and other parts of the country.

CPI (ML) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya on Thursday said that the Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government is on the same wavelength with the UPA on the issue of appointment of Lokayukta in the states.

CPI-ML general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya on Thursday announced plan to hold a statewide "Khabardar rally" on October 30 to protest the alleged failure of state and central governments in checking price rise and increase in incidents of feudal and communal conspiracies .

CPI-ML (Liberation) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya on Wednesday said Bihar was a testing ground (prayogshala) for the Left where they would defeat "Hindutvavadi and Brahmanvadi" forces.

The Left parties-sponsored Bihar bandh in protest against police firing in Bagaha subdivision evoked mixed response across the state on Thursday.