STEEP price rise and the declining security for women in the country have become the toughest challenges for Indian women, concluded the AIDWA state conference held at Dr Seshareddy Vignana Kendram in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh from September 24- 26.About 300 delegates representing two lakh members attended the conference which kickstarted with an impressive rally on the first day.

A COLOURFUL dharna followed by a rally was held at Bhubaneswar on September 28, outside the state assembly, culminating 'September campaign', a call given by the Party.Coming from various parts of the state with red flags, banners and placards shouting slogans the protesters joined the dharna. The main issues were livelihood and against pro-corporate communal forces led by BJP-RSS at the centre and anti-people decisions of the state government of BJD.People came from northernmost Mayurbhanj to southernmost Malkangiri districts covering hundreds of kilometres.

CPI(M) Polit Bureau member B V Raghavulu warned the Andhra Pradesh state and the central governments of intensified protests if they fail to provide relief measures to the evacuees of the Polavaram Project. Addressing thousands from the tribal region at the meeting held at Kunavaram village of the Alluri Sitharama Raju district, he stressed that the government should do justice to the displaced who lost their livelihood and property for the project. “CPI(M) leaders and cadre will hold a sit-in at the project site along with the evacuees if the government doesn’t implement all the promised r

THE fourth state conference of the Tamil Nadu Association for the Rights of the Differently Abled and Caregivers (TARATDAC), the state affiliate of the National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD), was held from September 19-21 in Chengalpet district, near Chennai.From humble beginnings when the TARATDAC was formed in 2010, this cross disability organisation now has 38 district committees, four organising committees, 295 local committees and has nearly 5000 units with over 80,000 memberships across Tamil Nadu.  It has successfully mobilised the rural and poor masses of families w

THE September campaign against skyrocketing prices of essential commodities, the highest unemployment in the last 45 years, and the BJP’s unethical practice of poaching MLAs of opposition parties to subvert the democratic mandate and usurp power, culminated in a massive rally of peasants and workers in Patna on September 22. The ‘Bharat Bachao-BJP Bhagao’ (Save India – Oust BJP) rally was organised by the CPI(M) Bihar state committee.