THE ideals of writer and social reformer Kandukuri Veeresalingam are relevant for all times and he is the torch bearer of great reform, speakers hailed in a seminar organised to mark his centennial death anniversary, in Vijayawada on May 26. The event was organised by 108 organisations, to pay a fitting tribute to the great leader.Telugu film director C Umamaheswara Rao, addressing the inaugural session, said the causes espoused by Veeresalingam are most relevant in the contemporary context.

AFTER the elections to the Lok Sabha, violence and hatred is being spread in Begusarai, in Bihar. On May 26, Mohammad Qasim was shot in the chest allegedly by Raju Yadav who is supposedly a liquor baron of the region and supplies illegal liquor(sale of liquor is an offence in Bihar).Qasim who is a native of Khanjapur village works as a salesman; he had gone to Kumbhi village to sell the produce in a mobile van.

ON May 20, Nand Kumar, district panchayat member was attacked by hired miscreants. The Party has demanded immediate arrest of these miscreants who are bent to cow down political voices in the region. The CPI(M) has stated that a peaceful town like Bilaspur in Chattisgarh in being converted into a den of anti-social , criminal elements. 

A DELEGATION comprising of Sumitra Chopra from CPI(M), Rahul Chaudhary from (CPIML), former MLA Pawan Duggal and other leaders of mass organisations like the DSMM and AIDWA visited village Lalabari in Thanagaji in Alwar district. The delegation met the victim of gang rape and her husband who narrated the gory incident of rape by a gang of the region. This gang has ample support of the local police. This gang is also involved in incidents of rioting and loot.

THE state of Uttarakhand is supposedly believed to be calm, without any social and political prejudices. It is also termed as Dev Bhoomi(land of  deities). However, the reality is far away from that. The manifestation of social exclusion and differentiation in Uttarakhand is one of the worst forms in comparison to other states.Recently untouchability, which is a crime according to the law, claimed one life in Jaunpur block of Tehri district. Jitender Das, a dalit youth from Basan village was attacked in a marriage party as he dared to sit on a chair along with other upper caste people.