CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on February 1THE budget speech of the finance minister reveals that the government is clueless about how to address the crisis gripping the country’s economy. Instead of a coherent policy direction addressing the problems head on, what was delivered was a two-and-a-half-hour monologue in concealing the realities of a floundering economy. Despite devious attempts to manipulate data, the economic crisis showed up in the budget numbers.

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on January 10THE Supreme Court has made significant comments on the curbs on civil liberties in Jammu and Kashmir which belie the false claims of normalcy that the central government has been peddling to the country and the world.The central government on the eve of the judgment tried to reinforce the official claims by taking a group of foreign envoys on a farcical restricted tour to J&K where they were allowed to see and hear only what the government wanted them to, which is why none of them could meet th

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on December 23CLEARLY rattled by the intensity of popular protests across the country against the CAA/NRC/NPR and the declaration by at least ten chief ministers that they will not implement the NRC, PM Modi unleashed yesterday at Delhi a bundle of untruths aimed at misleading the people.Lie No.

CPI(M)  Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on December 24THE union cabinet today decided to update the National Population Register (NPR) with a financial sanction of Rs 8,500 crores.  The NPR exercise will require people to declare date and place of birth of parents along with furnishing data on 21 additional points.  Most of the data being collected now was not collected in the last NPR exercise in 2010.By the amendment of the Citizenship Act of 1955 and the rules notified on December 10, 2003 by the Vajpayee government, the National Population Regis

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on November 23THE 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.It is unfortunate that both the constitutional authorities – president’s office and the governor’s office – have been misused to achieve their political purpose.The future develo