SLOGAN of the LIC Agents’ Organisation of India (LICAOI) is ‘Save LIC and protect Agents’.

The present asset of LIC is Rs 38 lakh crore as against capital of mere Rs 5 crore by the government. The total dividend paid to the government including this year was Rs 31,663 crores.

CPI(M) WEST Bengal state 26th conference has called upon the Party workers to be ready for militant struggles in the coming days. The Party will forge ahead with indomitable courage and highest sacrifice, deepening the link with the working people and strengthening the independent strength of the Party.The state conference was held on March 15-17, at Kolkata’s Promode Dasgupta Bhavan (Comrade Nirupam Sen Nagar, Comrade Shyamal Chakraborty Manch).

A THREE-DAY (March 21-24) ‘Peoples Alternative Budget Session’ was held at Freedom Park, Bangalore. It was organised by Samyukta Horata Karnataka – a coordination committee of peasants, workers, dalits, students, youth, and mahila organisations.  Ruling party governments do not have any pro-people orientation. No discussion or debate takes place on any vital issue concerning people in the budget session of Karnataka legislature.

“NOBODY has a right to force a girl to wear or not to wear a headscarf. Let girls and their parents decide.” said Brinda Karat, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member at Mangalore, Karnataka. She was addressing a well-attended ‘Harmony Convention’ (Souhardata Samavesha) on March 21 at Kudmal Rangarao Bhavan (Townhall) organised by CPI(M) state  committee.Brinda Karat expressed her sadness and anger at the condition of girls, who are breaking barriers to get education in Karnataka, but are being deprived of the universal right to education by a government order.

PROFESSOR Aijaz Ahmad, who passed away last week in Irvine, California, was one of the foremost Marxist intellectuals of our times.  His significance as a Marxist theoretician came to prominence in the period after the retreat of socialism in the late 1980s and which led to the dismantling of the Soviet Union in 1991.His erudition and talents were wide-ranging. He began his work as an Urdu writer and literary critic.