Protest against US President’s Visit

THE All India Peace and Solidarity Organisation (AIPSO), along with various other mass organisations and social movements organised a protest demonstration opposing the visit of US President Donald Trump on February 24, 2020 at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi.Hundreds of people representing the common people of our country – workers, kisans, women, youth, students – participated in the demonstration.Leaders denounced the unwarranted welcome accorded to the US president by the Indian government.

Odisha: Rally against CAA-NPR-NRC in Bhubaneswar

ADDRESSING a state-level mass rally at Odisha’s state capital, Bhubaneswar on February 13, the CPI(M) general secretary, Sitaram Yechury called upon the people to rise in unison to defeat the trident attack of the Modi-Shah led BJP government through the CAA-NPR-NRC and save the constitution and the secular democratic Republic.

Tamil Nadu: Refuse to Answer NPR Questions

To implement NRC across the country, the centre is hell-bent to begin the NPR process from April 1. CPI(M) general secretary, Sitaram Yechury called upon the people not to answer the questions raised by the enumerators during the NPR process. He also asked them to conduct a door to door house campaign in this regard urging the people to defy the NPR.

A Forgotten Emergency Crackdown Remembered

NEAR Sultanpur, in Uttar Pradesh state, is the site of a forgotten crackdown that took place nearly 44 years ago. Such struggles from the past have come to the present, asking people to unite and fight for their rights.Today, every page of the constitution is under attack. Institutions that are supposed to protect and strengthen democracy have once again started to crumble. The mass media is not silent but singing accolades to the government.

Left Parties Protest against Ani-People Budget

DELHIHUNDREDS of people participated in the joint march of the Left Parties led by CPI(M), CPI, CPI (ML)-Liberation, AIFB, RSP and CGPI from Mandi House to Jantar Manch on February 18, where it culminated in a public meeting. Prakash Karat, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member, while addressing the public meeting pointed that the budget does not provide any way out of the slowdown plaguing the Indian economy. Modi government provided tax concessions of Rs 1.45 lakh crore to the corporates last September.

TRIPURA: Huge Rally of GMP: A Clear Warning to BJP

THE hills came down to Agartala on Saturday, February 8, as thousands of tribal people hit the streets of state capital at the call of Tripura Rajya Upajati Ganamukti Parishad (GMP). The rally was held as a prelude to the upcoming central conference of GMP and to press its 18-point charter of demands. The demands included immediate repealing of CAA, withdrawal of NPR and NRC, inclusion of Kokborok in the 8th schedule of the constitution, more power to the TTAADC and reestablishment of peace and democratic atmosphere in the state.The rally started from Rabindra Bhavan at 11 am.

‘Let Kashmir be declared an open jail…’: Tarigami

THESE were the painful words of Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, said in a press conference on February 12, 2020 at Delhi. Sitaram Yechury, general secretary of CPI(M) started the press conference.Yechury in the beginning congratulated the people of Delhi for giving a resounding defeat to the politics of hatred and division led by the BJP. Speaking on the present situation in Jammu and Kashmir, he said that six months have passed by since the abrogation of Article 370 and the state has been very badly hit on various fronts.

Chattisgarh: CPI(M) participates in Human Chain

THE CPI(M) participated in the Human Chain in different parts of the state along with other mass organisations and Left Parties and took oath on secularism and on protecting the Constitution of India. The call was observed on January 30th. In Raipur, the capital of Chattisgarh, Sanjay Parate addressed the meeting after the Human Chain. He said the CAA is a divisive law that divides the country on the basis of religion and goes against the basic tenets of our constitution. He appealed to the people that the NPR questionnaire should not be answered.

Satyagraha call on Mahatma Gandhi’s martyrdom day

THE Left parties comprising CPI(ML)-Liberation, CPI and CPI(M) observed one day satyagraha programme in different parts of the state. This call was given against the attacks on the democratic rights of the people of the country especially after the unilateral passing of the Citizenship(Amendment) Act and the proposed implementation of the NPR and NRC. In Patna, the capital of Bihar, in front of the Gandhi’s statue, in Gandhi Maidan, leaders of Left Parties participated in the programme.

City planners and activists demand withdrawal of CAA-NPR-NRC

THE National Coalition for Inclusive and Sustainable Urbanisation (NCU), a network of urban planners and activists the urban realm, issued a statement signed by 149 experts, demanding withdrawal of CAA and stopping the exercise of NPR and NRC.

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