Below we reproduce the memorandum sent by Deben Bhattacharya, Assam state secretary of the Communist Party of India(Marxist), to the President of India on December 6, on the communal remarks of the governor of Assam.

THE Assam State Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) would like to draw your kind attention to the unwarranted and blatantly communal role of the governor of Assam, Padmanabh Balakrishna Acharya, and solicits your immediate intervention on the matter.

THE Assam State Kishan Sabha organised a massive dharna in Guwahati on November 19 against the state and central governments over growing peasant suicides in the state. "Not suicides and self-annihilations, but united mighty struggle against the anti-peasant and anti-people policies of the BJP government at the Centre and Congress government in the state is the only way to lift the peasantry out of the present crisis" was the central slogan that reverberated in the massive dharna at Lakhidhar Bora Khetra in the heart of the city.

SIX Left parties -- the CPI(M), CPI, CPI(ML), SUCI(C), RSP and the AIFB -- jointly organised massive protest actions in the form of 'satyagraha' throughout Assam on July 6. The 'satyagraha' was in protest against the anti-people policies of the BJP-led central government and the misrule of the Congress dispensation in Assam. Hundreds of Left activists and supporters came out to the street and organised processions, demonstrations, etc. by defying law and finally courted arrest in front of the offices of deputy commissioners and sub-divisional officers in their respective areas.

AS part of birth centenary celebrations of Comrade Achintya Bhattacharyya (AB), the Assam unit of All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) held a state-level organisational workshop at Thelamara in Sonitpur district on August 24 and 25. As many as 130 delegates from different districts of the state took part in the workshop.