BY-ELECTION to four assembly seats in Tripura is scheduled to be held on June 23. Out of the four vacant seats, three belonged to the ruling BJP and one to the CPI(M). Of the three BJP seats, two MLAs representing Agartala and Town Bordwali constituencies resigned from the assembly and then joined the Congress. The BJP MLA from Surma (SC) constituency revolted against the government and the party and joined the TMC and thereby attracting anti-defection law and losing his membership in the assembly. Now he is reported to have left the TMC, alleging a nexus between BJP and TMC.

ON June 12, 2022, a massive 10,000-strong rally and a public meeting was organised by the CPI(M) and AIKS at Umbarthan, Tehsil Surgana, district Nashik in Maharashtra. The meeting comprised an overwhelming number of Adivasi peasants. They came mainly from Surgana tehsil, but there was also good representation from other tehsils in the district.

ON June 13-14, 2022, the CPI(M) East Champaran district committee in Bihar organised a 2000-strong civil disobedience action at Motihari, to denounce the totally false implication of its leader, Rajmangal Prasad in a murder case.

SEVEN political parties of the state of Assam, namely the Indian National Congress, Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)-Liberation,   Assam Jatiya Parishad, Raijor Dal and Anchalik Gana Marcha, jointly presented a memorandum to the governor of Assam on 15 June, at Raj Bhavan in Guwahati demanding a high-level commission of inquiry headed by a high court sitting judge to inquire into the growing incidents of extrajudicial killings--so-called 'encounter killings' and custodial deaths in Assam since the assumption of office

THE Tamil Nadu Minorities Welfare Association organised a massive demonstration at the Valluvar Kottam in Chennai on June 6 to protest against the attacks on minorities, their properties and livelihood across the country.