Fact Finding Team Visits Tripura

AN eight-member fact finding team, consisting of members of parliament, national leaders of kisan movement and eminent leader of the Alliance for People’s movement Medha Patkar, called Democracy the first casualty under the five months rule of the BJP-IPFT alliance in Tripura.The team members addressed a press conference in Agartala on August 5, after two days of hectic schedule, visiting different places in the state covering six of the eight districts.

WEST BENGAL: CM’s Concerns on NRC are Doubtful

CPI(M) West Bengal state secretary Suryakant Misra in a statement issued on July 30, has demanded that all citizens residing in Assam should be enlisted in NRC.He said people of West Bengal are concerned about developments in Assam. It is doubtful whether the statement of the West Bengal chief minister in this regard is actually aimed to address this concern. The role of TMC in the past on citizenship issue is one reason for this doubt.

TAMIL NADU: Opposition leaders call for overthrowing BJP Govt

SPEAKING at a seminar on “ challenges facing India” at Chennai organized by the Tamil Nadu Platform for People’s Unity on July 29, the leaders of the CPI(M), Congress, DMK and CPI said that Modi government has failed on all fronts and called for ending the BJP rule.CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury said that India is facing multiple challenges. The four pillars of the Indian constitution are severely attacked by the BJP government. It has failed on four major fronts ; economy, democracy, social justice and ensuring the state government rights.

MOVEMENT FOR INDIA’S FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE: MIFI campaigns on the Crisis Gripping the Financial Sector

A JOINT meeting of leaders of various political parties, central trade unions, service organisations, trade unions and officers organisations in banking and insurance sectors, non-governmental organisations(NGO), women organisations, youth and student organisations etc., have decided to launch a movement against the grave crisis gripping the financial sector. The movement has been named as Movement for India’s Financial Independence (MIFI).Pinarayi Vijayan, the chief minister of Kerala, inaugurated the national level campaign of MIFI on June 18 at Martyrs Column, Thiruvananthapuram.

CPI(M) Protest before Police Headquarters in Agartala

In a surprising move the CPI(M) on July 30, organized a mass dharna in front of the state police headquarters forcing the DGP to receive deputation from the party. Without any prior notice hundreds of CPI(M) workers assembled in front of the PHQ and started shouting slogans for defending democracy, establishing rule of law, immediate halt of post poll violence, police action against the perpetrators of violence.

Meanwhile in Tripura

Statue of Comrade Baidyanath Majumder vandalizedIn the intervening night of July 25, the BJP goons vandalized a statue of Comrade Baidyanath Majumder , former deputy chief minister and former secretary of CPI(M) Tripura state committee at Chandipur, Kailashahar. The spree of vandalism that started with Comrade Lenin's statue in Belonia just after the results of the assembly election was declared, has not spared Karl Marx, Che Guevara, Dr Ambedkar.

Writ Petition in the SC Challenging Article 35 A: CPI(M) Files Intervention Application

CPI(M) leader, Mohd Yousuf Tarigami has filed an intervention application in the pending writ petition in the Supreme Court challenging Article 35 A of the Constitution of India - Special Provision for the State of Jammu and Kashmir - introduced as per Constitution (application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order 1954. The Party is of the unequivocal opinion that Article 35 A, shall in no circumstance be annulled, modified or repealed.

Left Parties Call for Bihar Bandh on August 2

I ACCOMPANIED Bihar state secretary, Avdhesh Kumar, to Madhubani and Muzaffarpur districts on July 26-27. What we witnessed was conclusive evidence of the fact that, after his treacherous deal with the BJP, Nitish Kumar has given up all attempts at good governance and Bihar today is no different from BJP-states as far as inhuman atrocities against women, minor girls and dalits are concerned.In Madhubani, a huge rally of more than 2000 people, mostly dalits, was organised by the Party in solidarity with more than 700 Musahars who are sitting on dharna along with CPI(M) activists in front of

ASSAM: Every Single Indian Citizen Must be Included in NRC: CPI(M)

THE CPI(M) Assam state committee, in a statement issued on July 31, has said that the final draft of National Register of Citizens (NRC) is published on time as stipulated by the Supreme Court (SC) . As stated by NRC authority, out of a total 3.29 crore applicants 2.89 crores are included in the final draft. It means around 40 lakhs are not included in the draft. It is noticed that there are a lot of anomalies in the preparation of the draft NRC. A large number of women are left out from the draft who had submitted panchayat certificate as the linkage document.

ANDHRA PRADESH: Women Workers Militant Protest against Privatisation of Mid-day Meal Scheme

A LARGE number of women mid-day meal workers tried to lay siege to Andhra Pradesh state HRD minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao’s house at Visakhapatnam on July 30 opposing the government’s decision to introduce cluster system all over the state and run the mid-day meal scheme through private agencies. Police did not allow them to enter the street on which the house is located, but the workers stormed through the barricades leading to arrests. There was pushing and jostling with the protesters trying to reach up to the gate of the minister’s house.

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