PB Statements

Oppose ‘One Nation, One Election’ Drive of Modi Government

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on September 19THE union cabinet has accepted the recommendations of the Kovind Committee for simultaneous elections to parliament, state legislative assemblies and local bodies. The `One Nation, One Election’ model, if implemented, will undermine the parliamentary democratic system itself and the federal structure. The proposals amount to truncating the life of some legislative assemblies to align them with the Lok Sabha election.  Further, if a state government falls and the assembly is to be dissolv

Homage to Comrade Sitaram Yechury

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on September 12THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses its profound grief at the passing away of Comrade Sitaram Yechury, general secretary of the Party on September 12, 2024. He died after battling a severe lung infection at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.

Immediately Enact a Law for the Protection of Medical Personnel

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on August 19THE unprecedented and spontaneous mobilisation of doctors, particularly junior doctors in angry protests against the barbaric rape and murder of a young doctor in Bengal’s R G Kar hospital reflects not only the solidarity for the young woman victim but also the experience of doctors against unsafe and insecure conditions of work. This has received widespread people’s support.

On Bangladesh Situation

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on August 11The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) expresses its serious concern at the reports of several attacks on Hindu places of worship and the minority community in Bangladesh since the fall of the Shiekh Hasina government.

SEBI Chief Should Step Down

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on August 11

HINDENBURG Research which had earlier exposed the stock price manipulation by the Adani group of companies has now leveled serious charges against the chairperson of the Security and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Madhabi Puri Buch. It has cited documents to show that Buch and her husband held stakes in the same offshore funds which were utilised by Vinod Adani to invest in Adani companies.

Red Salute Comrade Buddhadeb Bhattacharya

CPI(M)  Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on August 8THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) expresses its profound grief at the passing away of Comrade Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, outstanding leader of the Party and former chief minister of West Bengal.  He was aged 80 years and had been in ailing health for some time. Buddhadeb Bhattacharya joined the Party in 1966 in his student days.  He participated in various struggles of the student and youth movements.  He became the state secretary of West Bengal Democratic Youth Federation in 1968.  He was elected to the

Supreme Court Permits the Sub-classification of Scheduled Castes

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on August 1

A SEVEN-Judge bench of the Supreme Court (by 6-1) held that sub classification of Scheduled Castes is permissible. The Supreme Court also permitted separate quotas for more backwards within the SC categories. The Supreme Court directed that the State has to justify the sub-classification on the basis of empirical data regarding the inadequacy of representation of the sub-class.

A Regressive Contractionary Budget

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on July 23IN the context of the economic realities of high levels of unemployment, high food inflation rate, unprecedented widening of inequalities and the slowing down of private investment, the budget should have focused on expanding economic activities. Instead, its proposals are contractionary and regressive.

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