NHRC Report on Kairana Exodus False, Libellous

THE National Human Rights Commission’s report on the so-called exodus of families from Kairana town in Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh because of increasing crime is libellous and false as it puts the blame on the Muzaffarnagar riots victims settled in the area without citing any credible and independent evidence.

Kairana : False Story of Exodus

NOT just the BJP, but the entire Sangh Parivar has announced its intention of preparing for the UP state assembly elections in 2017 ‘on a war footing’. A victory in UP is essential to bolster its campaign for another big win in the next Lok Sabha elections. It needs to be remembered that the Sangh Parivar prepared for the last Lok Sabha elections of 2014 ‘on a war footing’ in UP – bloody riots, attacks on poor, Muslim families in Muzaffarnagar, Meerut and Shamli districts of Western Uttar Pradesh and their forced exodus from the homes and villages to makeshift refugee camps were the resul

SFI Holds AMU Unit Conference

THE second unit conference of SFI AMU unit was successfully held on May 8, on the theme of attack on educational institutes and on right to dissent. Earlier, the permission for the conference was explicitly denied by the proctorial office. The conference started with flag hoisting and paying tributes to the martyrs. Prof. Irfan Habib in his inaugural address asked the students of Aligarh Muslim University, to fight against all type of communal forces, not only RSS-BJP led Hindu communal forces, but Muslim and Sikh communal forces also.

On Incidents of rioting in Karhal, Mainpuri on Oct 9

THE fact that a riot in which two people belonging to the minority community were lynched and escaped death only because they were rescued by the police occurred in Karhal, Mainpuri which is a bastion of the Samajwadi Party in which all other parties have been marginalised is a matter of great concern. Mukut Singh, state secretariat member, CPI(M) visited Karhal on October 14 after the market re-opened. He had been closely monitoring the situation from October 9 onwards. His report is as follows:

UTTAR PRADESH: Sangh Parivar Fomenting Communal Riots

GROUPS aligned with the Sangh Parivar are doing everything in their power to engineer riots in Varanasi, the parliamentary constituency of prime minister, Narendra Modi. Most unfortunately, Congress leaders are also supporting their BJP counterparts in this unholy conspiracy. On October 5, so-called ‘holy’ men and religious leaders gave a call to take out a protest rally against the refusal of the district administration to allow them to immerse Ganesh statues in the Ganga in the third week of September.

UTTAR PRADESH: First State Convention of Dalit Shoshan Mukti Manch Held Successfully

THE first convention of the DSMM, UP was held in Lucknow on June 30. It was inaugurated by Santosh Balmiki, senior journalist, Hindustan Times, who spoke about his own experiences growing up in a family of manual scavengers and the grave injustice that his community is still suffering despite much legislation and many, broken, promises. He said that even today dalit children face humiliation and discrimination in schools and this prevents them from acquiring the education that they need desperately.

UTTAR PRADESH: Solidarity Rally with the People of West Bengal & Dharna on 15 point Demands

AN impressive procession of peasants, workers, women and youth was held in Deoria in Uttar Pradesh on November 1 in solidarity with the people of West Bengal who are under serious attack by the ruling party, TMC goons – police – administration combine.

The procession began from Deoria Sadar railway station and marched through the main thoroughfares of the town, raising slogans and distributing handbills, reached the district magistrate’s office where it converted into a rally, dharna and public meeting.

CPI(M)’s Ekta Colony for Muzzafarnagar Riot Victims Inaugurated

TURN this Ekata Colony into a symbol and centre of resistance against communal forces.” With this inspiring call, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member M A Baby inaugurated on August 24 a colony at Jola village, around 40 km from here, for the people uprooted from their villages and homes during last year’s communal riots in the district and its adjoining Shamli.

Domestic Worker’s Struggle for Recognition

MORE than 200 representatives of the Domestic Workers Association, led by the Janvadi Mahila Samiti (JMS), an affiliate of the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), held a convention in Rai Umanath Hall of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, on June 2, 2014. Amidst the slogans of ‘We Shall Fight, We Shall Win,’ these women demanded that they and their rights as workers must be recognised. These women workers represented 12 districts of the state.

CPI(M) Provides Homes for Riot Victims in Muzaffarnagar

THE terrible communal attacks that occurred in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts of Western Uttar Pradesh forced thousands of poor, working class Muslim families into an existence of misery, hunger, cold, sickness and complete insecurity. What are euphemistically called ‘tented camps’ lack both the tents and the semblance of order that these words imply. In open fields and empty ditches, people stuck poles into the ground and hung plastic sheets on them and then crept under them with their families.

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