SIXTEENTH Madhya Pradesh state conference of the CPI(M) was held in Bhopal on January 16, 17, 18. It set the goals of new campaigns, movements and struggles and re-elected Jaswinder Singh as the state secretary.In his concluding speech at the conference, Party general secretary Sitaram Yechury, giving many examples from the country and the world, said that the struggles of the people have been in the most despotic rules and have won them.The working people know how to make sacrifices to get rid of their troubles and on the basis of that, they can reach the destination of success.

THE Delhi Union of Journalists(DUJ) in a press note issued on January 11, stated that in the controversy surrounding the prime minister’s visit to Punjab, an investigation into a secret app that spams and trolls thousands has gone ignored by the big media.  Painstaking investigation of the app Tek Fog, by two technical researchers for The Wire, reveals how technology is being used to pursue a political agenda and target people, including journalists.The statement mentioned the Tek Fog app is designed to “highjack the ‘trending’ section of Twitter and ‘trend’ on Facebook….to ‘auto-retweet’ o

THE 12th state conference of DYFI Himachal Pradesh was held on January 8-9, 2022 at Shimla. The main slogan of the conference was “stop hate and drugs, provide employment”.The conference was held at a time when there was heavy snowing in Shimla and most of the roads leading to the state capital were blocked. Still, the delegates, some of whom had to walk to the town from miles away reached and attended this conference.INAUGURAL SESSION The 12th state conference was inaugurated by Kushal Bhardwaj, former state president and secretary of DYFI.

THE Modi government decided to raise the legal age of marriage of women from 18 to 21 years. The union cabinet cleared the proposal and a bill to amend the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 was introduced in Parliament.

THE 23rd state conference of the Karnataka committee of the   CPI (M) was held from January 2-4 at Gangavathi, Koppal district, in Comrades K Varadarajan and Balappa Nagar. The conference hall was named after veteran leader of the trade union movement and of the Party, Comrade B Madhava and another trade union leader Comrade R Srinivas who underwent life imprisonment (and was released after 16 years in jail) in a false case.