ASSEMBLY elections are going to be held in Himachal Pradesh in the month of November. The BJP won the elections in 2017. The state has witnessed alternate governments between BJP and Congress since 1985. No party has been able to win two consecutive elections in the state since then.The BJP, this time with all its strength that includes money, organization, enforcement agencies and other methods is trying to create an atmosphere that the trend of defeating the party in power, will be reversed.

SERIES of public meetings and rallies were conducted throughout Andhra Pradesh in the second fortnight of September in response to the call of CPI(M) Central committee. The corporate communal nexus of BJP rule that has been destroying the livelihoods of people was thoroughly exposed and the need to defeat them was explained as also the silence of YSRCP state government and of the main opposition TDP in opposing the BJP central government which is harmful to the interests of the state.

SITARAM Yechury, general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), and other leaders of the Party reiterated that it is the bounden duty of every patriot in the country to unitedly fight against and defeat the BJP government at the centre at the hustings to the Lok Sabha to protect secular democracy, religious harmony, the constitution and federalism.

ON September 17, the Press Colony in Srinagar, located a short walk away from historic Lal Chowk, teemed with hundreds of CPI (M) workers carrying placards and banners.  Soon the area reverberated with slogans denouncing the wrong and repressive policies of the   BJP government. The demonstration was held as part of the CPI (M) nationwide programme against price rise, unemployment, attacks on the working class, peasants, apple growers, and democratic rights of the people. The workers, well-nigh, from all the districts of Kashmir, participated in the demonstration.

"No matter how hard you try, our family cannot break up. Our family is a huge family of working people from all over the world. Where we belong to humanity, and together we will end the politics of hatred"-Yousuf TarigamiAT the invitation of the Bihar state committee of the CPI(M), Party Central Committee Member and former Jammu and Kashmir State Legislative Assembly member, Yousuf Tarigami, participated in a three-day Bihar programme from September 12-14.