THE Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) has expressed serious concern over the cut in interest rate on Employees Provident Fund (EPF) from 8.65 per cent to 8.5 per cent. In the meeting of Central Board of Trustees (CBT) of EPFO held on March 5, 2020, the workers’ representatives in CBT expressed strong dissatisfaction and resentment over the same.
BIHAR government must clarify its stand on the NPR; it must issue a gazette notification to withdraw it; the government must also pass a resolution against the CAA. These were the foremost demands of a mass rally in Patna, held in Gandhi Ground on February 26, with the slogan of ‘save constitution, save citizenship’. Under the banner of ‘front against NPR-NRC-CAA’, this rally got an overwhelming response from the people; prominent social and political leaders participated in this rally.
THE peasantry in north Indian states is facing severe loss due to unseasonal rain and hailstorm last week that ruined crops especially in Haryana, Punjab, Delhi and parts of Uttar Pradesh. The farmers are facing severe losses as substantial part of the crops has been destroyed.
CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on February 28
THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) expresses its strong disapproval over the manner in which the central government, which is in-charge of the law and order situation in the capital, is dealing with the communal violence.
AS the people of Tripura have been more and more expressly showing anger with new zeal against the BJP-IPFT misrule in Tripura, the BJP is continuing their state-sponsored despotic terror on the opposition parties, particularly the CPI(M), aiming to cripple its functioning and keep the Party immobilised.
More than 15,000 people attended the ‘Citizenship Protection Conference’ organised by the Tamil Nadu Platform for People's Unity, an anti-communal platform, in Chennai on February 26. The conference demanded the central government to withdraw the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Population Register (NPR) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) and also sought the state government not to implement the discriminatory Act.
THE unprecedented popular struggles all over the country against the CAA-NPR-NRC trio of adopted and proposed legislations and executive actions have gripped India.
CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on February 28
THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) appeals to the people, to all Party state committees, sympathizers and supporters to collect funds for relief and rehabilitation work for those affected by the communal violence in Delhi. The Delhi state committee of the CPI(M) will be forming a Solidarity Relief Committee for this purpose.
Sitaram Yechury (CPI(M) general secretary), D Raja (CPI general secretary), T R Baalu, MP (DMK parliamentary party leader), Praful Patel, MP (NCP), Sharad Yadav (Lok Tantrik Janata Dal president), Sanjay Singh, MP (AAP), Prof Manoj Kumar Jha, MP (RJD) had addressed a joint memorandum to the president of India on February 28, on the communal violence in Delhi. Below we publish the text of the memorandum.