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MAHA: ASHA Workers Win Demands after Nine Day Statewide Strike

WHEN the Maharashtra state government turned a blind eye consistently to the legitimate demands of the 70,000 ASHA workers and facilitators who had done admirable work braving the Covid pandemic for the last one and a half year, they were left with no choice but to go on strike. Several deputations and demonstrations did not make the government see reason.Despite the Covid pandemic, no raise or special allowance was given to them. No security measures were taken for their well being and even PPEs were not given to them.

LJP split spices up Bihar politics, BJP eyeing full control of state politics

SPLIT in the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) has spiced up the political atmosphere of Bihar. Chirag Paswan, the son of Late Ram Vilas Paswan has accused the Janata Dal (United) of engineering split in the LJP and has strongly condemned the silence of BJP during the operation. He has indicated to come out of the NDA and launch a state-wide “Ashirvad Yatra” (Meeting people for blessings) to garner support for his future course of political activities.

J&K: No Concrete Assurances

THE meeting convened by the prime minister with mainstream political leaders of Jammu and Kashmir – first time after the abrogation of the erstwhile state’s special status under Article 370 – has made it clear that mainstream political parties can’t be written off by caging and discrediting them with bundle of lies and slander campaigns.

Demolition of Right to Education For Adivasi Students

THE debate on the best way to deal with school board exams – whether to hold exams, what should be the weighted assessments, the need for monitoring internal school assessments and so on has many interested participants and is being settled by the Supreme Court. But how relevant are these questions for poor students and specifically for adivasi students?In underdeveloped rural areas where the majority of adivasis live, there were just three per cent internet connections according to a household survey conducted a few years ago (ICE 360). Not many adivasi families have smart phones.

Shameless Skulduggery in Ayodhya

MANY extraordinary things are happening in Yogiraj, Uttar Pradesh: opposition candidates prevented from filing their nominations for zilla panchayat presidentship elections, corona patients in villages being asked to sit under neem trees in order to breathe oxygen because of the unavailability of medical facilities...The most extraordinary, however, are the scandalous land deals being entered into in Ayodhya by members of the trust entrusted with the construction of the Ram Temple for which thousands of crores of rupees have been collected from devotees.On June 13, leaders belonging to the

MAHA: Protest against Fuel Price Hikes

THE Left parties had given a nationwide call for a protest fortnight from June 16 to 30 to condemn the Modi-led BJP central government for the savage and continuous price hikes of diesel, petrol, gas, cooking oil and several other essential items.The AIKS CKC had given a nationwide call to take up burning local issues of the peasantry in each state and link them up to the fundamental demands of the historic farmers’ struggle.Extended state committee online meetings of the CPI(M) and the AIKS were held separately in the first week of June.

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