In a statement issued on November 21, prominent intellectuals have demanded that the government of India releases the report and data of all NSSO Surveys that have been completed and approved by the NSSO’s internal systems, including the results of the 75th round Survey of Consumer Expenditure, 2017-18.
ON November 21, on the nationwide call of the Bhumi Adhikar Andolon (land rights movement), thousands of tribals and other traditional forest dwellers from across the country assembled at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar. This was the culmination of the campaign that was started by more than thirty organisations against the Supreme Court’s judgment of February 13, 2019, directing the forest department to evict all those whose claims under the FRA have been rejected.
CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on November 24
THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses its deep grief and sorrow at the unexpected death of Kshiti Goswami, general secretary of the Revolutionary Socialist Party, at the Apollo hospital, Chennai, where he was undergoing treatment.
CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on November 23
THE political immorality of the BJP has reached its nadir. The clandestine manner in which the chief minister and deputy chief minister of Maharashtra have been sworn in shows the extent to which the BJP can stoop to grab power. This is in line with what they have done earlier in Goa, Karnataka, north eastern states etc.
CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on November 22
THE recent exposures on how the electoral bond scheme was a route to finance the ruling party has once again established that such legalisation of political corruption must end.
AGED 70 years, Comrade Partho Kar died on November 22 in NRS Hospital in Kolkatta. Comrade Partho was suffering from cancer, which was detected quite late. He was associated with Party publication and Party papers for a long time.
THE plight of apple growers in Kashmir is awful, says Zahoor Ahammed, a farmer from Kulgam. “We have heard of farmer’s suicide in Maharashtra; if the existing situation persists, apple growers in Kashmir will also be compelled to commit suicide,” said Ahammed while speaking to the AIKSCC delegation that visited Kulgam on November 14, 2019.
THE BJP government, since assuming office for a second term in May 2019, has been working overtime to take away the rights of workers through codifications of labour laws, a euphemism for corporate unbridled process of profit maximisation. Accordingly, the labour minister introduced the Code on Wages and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (OSHWC) Code in the Lok Sabha on July 23. The Code on Wages was passed by Lok Sabha on July 30 and got the Rajya Sabha nod on August 2. The president gave his assent on August 8.
STATEMENT issued by the five CC members of the CPI(M) from Maharashtra has welcomed the resignation of the unprincipled BJP-led Devendra Fadnavis-Ajit Pawar government. In view of the Supreme Court judgement, we demand that the governor of Maharashtra must be sacked for the unconstitutional, anti-democratic and partisan role he played at the behest of the prime minister and the home minister.