Bhagat Singh had made the following statement in the court after they had thrown bombs in the Assembly, on April 8, 1929:“Producers and workers are the most important section of society, but the exploiting class loots their hard-earned income and also keeps them bereft of basic rights. Farmers, who grow food for everyone, die of hunger along with their families, weavers who weave cloth for the world do not have enough to clothe their children, carpenters, blacksmiths and masons who build grand palaces are forced to live in slums themselves.

1. Sorbhog - Manoranjan Talugdar2. Rangia - Dr Bhagaban Dev MishraManoranjan Talugdar is a member of the State Secretariat, while Bhagaban Dev Mishra is a popular medical doctor in Rangia

THE notification for elections to the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC), which had been pending since March last year, was finally issued by the State Election Commission on March 4. After the expiry of the tenure of the elected Left Front Council in May last year, the state government, taking advantage of the Covid-19 situation, was keen to reign in the TTAADC through appointment of an administrator. But following a Tripura High Court verdict, the government was compelled to hold elections to the council.

ON March 6, the historic kisan movement completed one hundred days.  It is the biggest kisan movement in the country since independence and it covers the entire country – a Pan India kisan struggle in the true sense. This movement is the most united democratic movement in India as about 500 kisan organisations of heterogeneous nature are involved in it and they maintained unprecedented unity so far. Such a huge all-India movement is going ahead in an absolutely peaceful manner.  Not a single incident of violence occurred as our slogan is: “If there is peace, kisan will win, if there is viol

ON January 27, the residents of Agartala witnessed the senseless, inhuman barbarities inflicted by police and paramilitary forces on the 10,323 retrenched teachers squatting in front of the City Centre in Melarmath. Police started indiscriminate lathi-charge on the teachers, both men and women, at pre-dawn hours as they were sleeping at their protest site in bone-chilling cold. The police demolished their temporary structure for their night-stay, took away their three donation boxes with approximately Rs 2.5 lakh, food and even warm clothes and vanity bags of women.