CPI - CPIM announces candidates for Punjab elections

CPIM State Secretary Com. Charan Singh Vridhi and State committe member (Amritasar Central Candidate ) Com. Vijay Mishra during the announcement of candidates

In the forthcoming elections to the Punjab Assembly, CPI, CPI(M) and the People's Party of Punjab led by Manpreet Singh Badal and the Akali Dal (Longowal) led by Surjit Singh Barnala have formed a front. The CPI is fighting 18 seats and CPIM will be contesting 9 seats in Punjab out of the 140 seats. The first list of 41 candidates announced by morcha chairman and People's Party of Punjab (PPP) chief Manpreet Singh Badal outside Jallianwala Bagh Martyrs memorial. Present on the occasion were CPI central executive committee member Dr Joginder Dayal and state secretariat member Harbhajan Singh, CPM state secretary Charan Singh Virdi and SAD (Longowal) Majha zone convener Pradeep Singh Walia.

CPIM Candidates and Constituency : Raghunath Singh (Garhshankar) Vijay Mishra (Amritsar central) Davinderjit Dhillon (Patti) Gurdial Singh Dhar (Anandpur Sahib) and Parshotam Lal Bilga (Phillaur) (SC).

CPI candidates and Constituency: Amarjit Singh Ansal (Amritsar west) Baldev Singh (Amritsar east) Balwinder Singh (Majitha) Lovleen Kaur Chahal (Sujjanpur) Subash Kaire (Dinanagar) (reserved).

Left parties - UKD(P) forms alliance in Uttarakand polls

CPIM, CPI and The Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (Panwar) headed by Trivendra Singh Panwar , announced the formation of a joint regional front for contesting the coming Assembly elections. It also released its first list of 12 candidates on Monday.

Addressing the media at a joint Press conference in Dehradun, Panwar said that the party had decided to join forces with the Left parties in order to strengthen its chances of preventing the Congress and the BJP from forming the next State Government. Announcing the formation of a joint regional front in the presence of CPI(M) State secretary Vijay Rawat and CPI National Council member Samar Bhandari, Panwar said that the Congress and the BJP failed to facilitate development and had instead caused deterioration of Uttarakhand during the 11 years since it was formed. The UKD-P and Left parties will now focus their efforts on preventing either of these two national parties from forming the next Government in Uttarakhand, Panwar said.

A first list of 17 candidates were announce during the function of which 13 seats are allocated to UKD (P) and the rest 4 seats are allocated to left parties. Com. Dinesh will contest from Gangothri and Com Anant Sing rana will contest from Badrinath as candidates of CPI. Com. Siva prasad will contest from Sahaspur constituency and Com. Rajpal will contest from sharali as candidates of CPIM.