THE notification for elections to the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC), which had been pending since March last year, was finally issued by the State Election Commission on March 4. After the expiry of the tenure of the elected Left Front Council in May last year, the state government, taking advantage of the Covid-19 situation, was keen to reign in the TTAADC through appointment of an administrator. But following a Tripura High Court verdict, the government was compelled to hold elections to the council.

ON March 6, the historic kisan movement completed one hundred days.  It is the biggest kisan movement in the country since independence and it covers the entire country – a Pan India kisan struggle in the true sense. This movement is the most united democratic movement in India as about 500 kisan organisations of heterogeneous nature are involved in it and they maintained unprecedented unity so far. Such a huge all-India movement is going ahead in an absolutely peaceful manner.  Not a single incident of violence occurred as our slogan is: “If there is peace, kisan will win, if there is viol

ON January 27, the residents of Agartala witnessed the senseless, inhuman barbarities inflicted by police and paramilitary forces on the 10,323 retrenched teachers squatting in front of the City Centre in Melarmath. Police started indiscriminate lathi-charge on the teachers, both men and women, at pre-dawn hours as they were sleeping at their protest site in bone-chilling cold. The police demolished their temporary structure for their night-stay, took away their three donation boxes with approximately Rs 2.5 lakh, food and even warm clothes and vanity bags of women.

THE unprecedented farmers’ struggle around Delhi, which began on November 26, 2020, completes 100 days on March 6, 2021. The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) held a general body meeting of its constituents at Singhu Border on March 2. On behalf of the AIKS, it was attended by general secretary Hannan Mollah, finance secretary P Krishna Prasad, Punjab state general secretary Major Singh Punnewal and Haryana state vice president Inderjit Singh.

PUNJAB state government on February 12, 2021 issued a notification naming the school where Comrade Surjeet studied as: “Comrade Harkishan Singh Surjeet Senior Secondary School, Bundala”. The CPI(M) state committee has welcomed and appreciated this decision of the Punjab government and especially the chief minister , Captain Amarinder Singh.  It may be mentioned here that an announcement to this effect was made on the occasion of 2nd death anniversary of Comrade Surjeet by then deputy chief minister of Punjab, Sukhbir Singh Badal, while paying tribute to Comrade Surjeet.