On the 17th Lok Sabha Election Results

CPI(M) Polit Bureau met at New Delhi on May 26-27, 2019. It has issued the following statement on May 27

NARENDRA Modi led BJP-NDA has secured an overwhelming and decisive mandate in the elections to the 17th Lok Sabha. Most opposition parties, barring those from Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and a few other states, have witnessed a big loss in these elections.

Who Bears the Brunt of BJP’s Victory in Tripura?

ARE you a leader, or a worker or an ordinary supporter of CPI(M) or any other Left party? Then, ‘they’ are free to enjoy beating you mercilessly, even taking your life with least hesitation. They have the right to celebrate their victory by setting fire to your house, or wrecking everything inside your house, or looting the valuables of their choice from your house. They enjoy right to ransack or loot your shop, destroy your crop, cut down the plants of your rubber garden, poison your fisheries, badly damage or burn down your vehicles.

Golden Jubilee Observance of CITU Begins

THE yearlong observance of the Golden Jubilee of CITU, which was founded on May 30, 1970, started with great enthusiasm in a massive meeting at Mavalankar Hall in New Delhi, on May 30, 2019. In addition to the Golden Jubilee of CITU’s foundation, CITU is also observing 100 years of the formation of the first central trade union in the country with the slogan ‘Carrying Forward 100 Years of Struggles and Sacrifices and 50 Years’ Fight for Class Unity’.

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MAHARASHTRA: Justice for Dr Payal Tadvi

THE AIDWA, SFI, DYFI, JASS (Jati Ant Sangharsh Samiti) held an angry protest demonstration outside Nair Hospital in Mumbai on May 27 to condemn the harassment, casteist humiliation and threats meted out to Dr Payal Tadvi by three senior women colleagues in the Topiwala National Medical College (TNMC) and BYL Nair Charitable Hospital, that ultimately drove her to commit suicide on May 22 in her hostel room. Dr Payal was an adivasi girl hailing from the Jalgaon district of Maharashtra.

Fiat-Chrysler and Renault Mega Auto Merger

ITALIAN-US automobile major Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) has proposed a 50:50 “merger of equals” with Renault (pronounced reno) of France which the latter, and major shareholders of both companies, have responded favourably to. If and when the merger does go through, and we shall discuss the ifs and buts later, it will create the world’s third largest auto maker behind Toyota of Japan and Volkswagen (VW) of Germany.

ANDHRA PRADESH: Rich Tributes Paid to Kandukuri Veeresalingam

THE ideals of writer and social reformer Kandukuri Veeresalingam are relevant for all times and he is the torch bearer of great reform, speakers hailed in a seminar organised to mark his centennial death anniversary, in Vijayawada on May 26. The event was organised by 108 organisations, to pay a fitting tribute to the great leader.

17th Lok Sabha Elections: Victorious Candidates of CPI(M)

P R Natarajan

P R Natarajan was a member of the Party state committee for a long time. Currently, he is a member of the district secretariat of Coimbatore. He was elected to the parliament from Coimbatore constituency in 2009 Lok Sabha elections. He has a good name among the public both as a CPI(M) leader and as an MP. P R Natarajan who contested from Coimbatore parliamentary constituency secured 5,71,150 (45.6 per cent) votes defeating his nearest rival (BJP candidate) by a margin of 1,76,918 votes.

Violence and Hatred Unleashed in Begusarai

AFTER the elections to the Lok Sabha, violence and hatred is being spread in Begusarai, in Bihar. On May 26, Mohammad Qasim was shot in the chest allegedly by Raju Yadav who is supposedly a liquor baron of the region and supplies illegal liquor(sale of liquor is an offence in Bihar).Qasim who is a native of Khanjapur village works as a salesman; he had gone to Kumbhi village to sell the produce in a mobile van.

Chattisgarh: CPI(M) Condemns Attack on Party Leader

ON May 20, Nand Kumar, district panchayat member was attacked by hired miscreants. The Party has demanded immediate arrest of these miscreants who are bent to cow down political voices in the region. The CPI(M) has stated that a peaceful town like Bilaspur in Chattisgarh in being converted into a den of anti-social , criminal elements.

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