New Delhi, Jan. 16 -- In a significant escalation of its political confrontation with the Centre, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Friday decided to launch a nationwide campaign against the "anti-people" policies of the BJP-led NDA government.
The three-day meeting of the CPI(M) Central Committee, which began at the EMS Academy in Thiruvananthapuram, set a defiant tone as the party prepares for a series of high-stakes assembly elections later this year, with the executive body taking a formal pledge to sustain resistance until several "controversial" laws are repealed.
The party's ire is particularly focused on the newly notified four labour codes and the replacement of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (...