IS it possible to have a regional alternative development strategy under the bourgeois-landlord federal state? The Left state governments in India have been prompted by such a positive vision and a successful case is that of Kerala.  Kerala has been able to provide its ordinary citizens the basic needs like education, health care, at least hutment land, housing, old-age social security and so on.  As a result, the quality of life of the people as proved by a number of human development indices is much above the national average.

CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat has given a call for continuing the united struggle of the land oustees and other people being affected by the blatant and naked aggression and coercion of the K Chandrasekhar Rao government in Telangana to dispossess them of more than four lakh acres of land. A massive dharna was organised by the struggle committee of land oustees of Telangana at Indira Park in Hyderabad on July 26 as a part of the ongoing struggle against the forcible and illegal acquisition of lands, demanding cancellation of  the controversial Government Order No.