LAKHS of people of Kerala participated in huge protests against the anti-people policies of the Modi government on September 9. Observing the Covid protocol, CPI(M) activists in the state gathered before the central government offices to register their protest. The protests were held as a part of the CPI(M) central call to launch a nationwide campaign against the anti-people policies.CPI(M) activists and sympathisers held placards against the farm laws, and raised slogans against the sell-off of the profit-making public-sector units.

On September 15, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member, Brinda Karat, visited the relay hunger strike pandal organised by the Visakha Ukku Parirakshna Porata committee at Kurmannapalem Junction against the sale of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant by Modi government.At the outset, she congratulated the united struggle of the steel employees, officers and contract workers which is continuing for the last 216 days. She said this struggle is for protecting the national assets.

ON September 8, Tripura witnessed widespread attacks on CPI(M) offices and the houses of CPI(M) cadres across the state.  More than a score of offices were burnt down or ransacked.  Even the state committee office in Agartala was not spared.  Vehicles in front of the offices were burnt. Many houses of Party leaders and activists were set on fire or ransacked.  These coordinated attacks by mobs of BJP men were meant to suppress the CPI(M) and stop its activities among the people.These fascistic type of attacks are an onslaught on democracy and a brutal attempt to suppress the opposition.

“THE message of September 27,  ‘Bharat Bandh’ must be taken to every house and aftermath of its success shall open up scope of bigger battles in the country. We must mobilise peace-loving, democratic-minded and patriotic countrymen behind the issues of ‘Bharat Bandh’ called by the SKM,” said Manik Sarkar, Polit Bureau member of CPI(M). He was addressing a massive convention in Agartala Rabindra Shatabarshiki Bhavan on September 21, 2021 at the call of five Left parties, namely CPI(M), CPI, RSP, FB and CPI(ML).

THE Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) Workers Union organised a day-long protest in front of the office of mission director of the National Health Mission (NHM) in Nagrota, Jammu, on September 4, over their long-pending demands. A large number of ASHA workers participated in the protest demonstrations.Om Parkash, state general secretary of CITU, addressed the protestors and said that it is a fact that much of the credit for the successful fight against the first and second waves of Covid-19 in Jammu and Kashmir goes to the 14,000 ASHA workers who have worked selflessly.