WB: Sagardighi Bypolls: People’s Intent is Clear

AS expected, the extent of people’s discontent with the misrule of authoritarian Trinamool regime was borne out in the outcome of Sagardighi by-election, occasioned by the death of sitting minister Subrata Saha in December last year. The TMC had been winning from Sagardighi in Murshidabad since 2011, three times in a row, and the by poll was considered a cakewalk, for in 2021, Saha had won by a massive margin of over 50,000 votes defeating his BJP rival Mafuza Khatun. The Left Front supported Congress candidate SKM Hasanuzzaman came third.

Maha: AIKS Leads Kisan March on Onion Price

THE AIKS in Maharashtra began a 10,000-strong kisan long march from Nashik to Mumbai on March 13, 2023 on a 17-point charter of demands, the most prominent among which was remunerative price particularly for onions, and also for cotton, soyabean, tur, green gram, milk, and hirda.

TN: Bicentenary of ‘Thol Seelai Porattam’ Observed

THE bicentenary of “Thol Seelai Porattam” (in Tamil) or “Maaru Marakkal Samaram” (in Malayalam) – the struggle by women of oppressed castes in the erstwhile Travancore to cover their upper bodies – was observed in Nagercoil, the headquarters of Kanniyakumari district in Tamil Nadu, on March 6. Tamil Nadu and Kerala Chief Ministers M K Stalin and Pinarayi Vijayan attended the event, joined by thousands of people.The erstwhile Travancore kingdom comprised parts of present-day southern Kerala and southern Tamil Nadu.

AIPSO Conference Resolves to Strengthen the Peace Movement

THE national conference of All India Peace and Solidarity Organisation (AIPSO) held on March 4-5, 2023 in Chandigarh, resolved to strengthen the anti-imperialist, peace movement in our country. The Punjab state committee of the AIPSO hosted the conference in which nearly 270 delegates from 21 states participated.

Karnataka: Will BJP get ‘Another Chance to End Corruption’!?

THE schedule for Karnataka assembly election is yet to be announced. Obviously many more ‘inaugurations’ (e.g., Bangalore-Mysore Expressway by PM on March 12) and ‘announcements’ are to be made, before model code of conduct comes into force. The chief minister has announced an ‘agreement’ made with Foxcann for manufacturing iPhones which will provide one lakh jobs, and this agreement was promptly denied by Foxconn.

CPI(M) Holds Janakeeya Prathirodha Jatha in Kerala

THE Kerala CPI(M)’s major political campaign, Janakeeya Prathirodha Jatha (People’s Resistance March), was inaugurated at Kasargode on February 20 and it will conclude on March 18 at Putherikandam Maidan in Thiruvananthapuram after marching through all the 140 assembly constituencies in the state. The jatha is led by MV Govindan, Polit Bureau member and state secretary of the Party, and the jatha team consists of CS Sujatha, M Swaraj, Jaik C Thomas and KT Jaleel with PK Biju as the manager.THE CONTEXTThe jatha is taking place in the background of severe financial

UP: Justice Moves Further Out of Reach for Dalits, Especially Women

In Hathras, cops barricade a raped woman’s home,hijack her corpse, set it afire on a murderous night,deaf to her mother’s howling pain.

Tripura Elections: Arduous Fight to Restore Democracy

ELECTIONS to Tripura assembly were held on February 16 and the results were declared on March 2, along with Meghalaya and Nagaland, where elections were held on February 27.The Tripura results reveal that in the 60-member legislative assembly, BJP-led ruling alliance got a thin majority – winning 33 seats. They lost 11 seats which they secured in the 2018 election. The CPI(M) won in 11 seats, witnessing a reduction of 5 seats it had won in 2018 (when there was a direct contest between the Left Front and the BJP alliance).

WB: State Employees to Go on Strike on March 10

SIGNS of the protest-base broadening are prominent in West Bengal. The more the autocratic Trinamool Congress regime descends into tyrannical attitudes and practices, exposing its mercilessly anti-people character, the stronger will be the strength of people’s protest and resistance. For more than a decade, employees who earn their salaries from the state government exchequer have suffered deprivation of rights, intimidation, harassment, unfair and wrongful transfer and humiliation.

Three Years since the Communal Violence in North East Delhi

ON February 26, 2023, a programme was organised on the topic 'Three Years of North-East Delhi Communal Violence' at the Quami Ekta Bhawan of Major Jaipal Singh Trust in North East Delhi. Around 110 people took part in this programme. Indumati started the programme by reciting a poem.A large number of people from the families affected by the violence participated. Among the affected, Malika, Aagaz, Ramsugarath and Rehana narrated their harrowing experiences. All of them had one thing to say that neither justice was served nor adequate compensation.

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