Leaders of six Left parties – CPI(M), CPI, AIFB, RSP, CPI(ML)-Liberation and SUCI(C) met on July 5, 2015 and issued the following statement: 1. All the claims made by the BJP central government and the prime minister that during the course of this one year the NDA government has offered a corruption free administration are being thoroughly exposed by the day. In the Lalit Modi-IPL scam, the union minister for external affairs and the Rajasthan chief minister have figured as persons grossly misusing their office to help a fugitive from Indian law, Lalit Modi. The union minister for human resource development has given a false statement regarding her educational qualifications. Cases of misuse of office for pecuniary gains have come up in the BJP ruled states of Maharashtra, involving two BJP state ministers. In other BJP ruled states like Chattisgarh such instances of high level corruption are being reported. The Left parties demand that a thorough CBI investigation under the supervision of the judiciary must be conducted in these cases and the guilty should be booked and punished. All tainted ministers in the centre and the states must be removed from office until the investigations are completed and action taken. CRIME & CORRUPTION The admission and recruitment scam in the state of Madhya Pradesh – Vyapam scam – has exposed the BJP state government as having perpetrated one of the worst corruption cases in the state ever. Officially 27 people associated with this case, including nine important witnesses, have died under mysterious circumstances. Important journalists, reporting on the scam, have also been victims of such mysterious deaths. Nearly 47 inexplicable deaths of people connected with this scam in one way or the other have been reported. JULY 20 – ALL INDIA PROTEST DAY The Left parties decided to hold an all India protest exposing corruption at high levels in this BJP central government as well as in various states on July 20. State level protest actions will be held demanding the removal and action against all those involved in corruption and nepotism. The state units of the Left parties will take up the state level issues of corruption, like the massive Saradha and other chit fund scams in West Bengal, along with those mentioned above in their state level protest actions. 2. Hindutva Terror: The Left parties strongly condemn the efforts of the BJP governments at the centre and the states to subvert justice in investigated cases of Hindutva terror like Malegaon, Hyderabad Mecca Masjid, Ajmer Sharief and the Samjhauta Express cases. In the Malegaon and the Ajmer Sharief investigations, efforts are on to scuttle the cases. 3. September 2 Workers Strike: The Left parties decided to give a joint call of support to the September 2 all India call for strike given by the central trade unions. 4. Bihar Assembly Elections: The Left parties have decided to jointly contest the forthcoming assembly elections in Bihar as an independent, united bloc. The meeting was attended by Sitaram Yechury and Prakash Karat from CPI(M), Sudhakar Reddy and D Raja from CPI, Dipankar Bhattacharya and Swapan Mukherjee from CPI(ML)-Liberation, G Devarajan from AIFB, Satyawan and Pran Sharma from SUCI(C) and Abani Roy from RSP.