A BIG rally was organised in the historical village of Bundala, Jalandhar district, on April 11, 2024, to inaugurate the election campaign of Master Parshotam Lal Bilga, CPI(M) candidate from the Jalandhar constituency. Bundala holds significance as the native village of Comrade Harkishan Singh Surjeet.Addressing the gathering, CPI(M) state secretary Sukhwinder Singh Sekhon outlined the unfulfilled promises of the BJP government led by Narendra Modi during the parliamentary elections of 2014 and 2019.

ON April 8, 2024, the CPI(M) began its election campaign for the Hingoli Lok Sabha seat in Maharashtra with an enthusiastic convention of more than 100 of its main activists. They came from the three districts of Nanded and Hingoli in the Marathwada region, and Yavatmal in the Vidarbha region. Parts of these three districts come in this constituency. The voting date for this seat is April 26. The CPI(M) had fought this Lok Sabha seat once earlier in 2014.

THESE days I often think back to my first association with the anti-colonial national movement. In the 1940s, I was a teen-ager in school. This was in Pune, where the action was, at that time. We would rush through homework and go to the prayer meetings of Gandhi. A foundational change was expected in Indian society. We, who had for centuries been subjects of diverse kingdoms, and then of a colonial state, were slowly mutating into citizens of an independent nation-state.

AN array of political leaders, intellectuals, activists and artists assembled at the HKS Surjeet Bhavan on April 6, 2024 to express solidarity with Prabir Purkayastha who has already served six months jail term over trumped up charges under UAPA. The solidarity programme was organised in three sessions. The first session had the performance of artists from Ahvaan and the release of Prabir’s book ‘Keeping up the Good Fight’.The second session was addressed by intellectuals, activists and journalists.

THE prolonged negotiations among the parties comprising the Mahagathbandhan bloc in Bihar concluded with a joint press conference held at the RJD headquarters in Patna on March 29. The press conference was addressed by state leaders from RJD, Congress, and three Left parties: CPI(M), CPI, and CPI(ML), with the state secretary of CPI(M), Lalan Choudhary, representing the Party.