KERALA: LDF Scores an Emphatic Victory in LSG By-polls

DISMISSING all hate campaign against CPI (M) and LDF government, more than 75,000 people across 44 local self government bodies have given an emphatic victory to the ruling front in the by-elections held on June 28. LDF has won 22 seats out of 44 seats across 13 districts in the state. UDF has won 17 seats and BJP won five. LDF wrested eight seats from the opposition UDF. The by-elections were held just one month after the Lok Sabha polls results were announced.

CPI(M) Delegation meets Family of Tabrez Ansari

A FIVE member ‘fact finding’ team including Prakash Viplav and Sufal Mahto, state secretariat members of CPI(M), AIDWA leader Rangowati Devi and secretaries of Sariakela and East Singhbhum district committees of CPI(M) in Jharkhand state, visited Kadamdih village under Sariakela Kharsawa district and met family of Mohammad Tabrez Ansari. Tabrez Ansari who was just 22 years old, he was killed by a mob a few days ago. This is the 18th mob violence victim in Jharkhand in last three years.

Two-Day National Consultation on Land and Forest Rights Movements

ON July 2, two-day national consultation of land and forest rights movements organised by Bhoomi Adhikar Andolan concluded at the Assam Association in Delhi. The conference witnessed the participation of more than 200 representatives of the community organisations from 12 states of the country.The movements working on the forest and land rights and for implementation of FRA declared that millions of adivasis and other traditional forest dwelling communities are facing the danger of eviction due to the Supreme Court rules on February 13, 2019.

AP: Draft Law to Curb Crimes in the name of Honour & Tradition

A CONSULTATION meeting was held at Vijayawada on ‘Crimes in the name of Honour and Tradition (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill’ on June 29 by the KVPS AP state committee, an affiliate of the Dalit Shoshan Mukti Manch. Advocates of AP High court, leaders of KVPS and other dalit organisations attended the meeting that was presided over by Potturi Suresh Kumar. Sunkari Rajendra Prasad, member of AP Bar Council and one of the five member team that drafted the bill has explained in detail the salient features in it.

MAHARASHTRA: CPI(M) State Class Resolves to Prepare for Assembly Polls

A one-day state-level class was organised on June 23, 2019 in the Adarsh Vidyalaya, Mumbai, by the CPI(M) Maharashtra state committee. 307 leading comrades from 27 districts attended. They included state and district committee members of the Party, all Party and mass front whole-timers and state secretariat members of the six main mass fronts.The state class was preceded by meetings of the CPI(M) state secretariat and the state committee on June 21-22.

Meanwhile in Tripura

AS we go to press, the state election commission of Tripura might declare the schedule for the election to the three tier panchayat bodies of the state. But the record of the last 15 months of the BJP-IPFT rule in the state puts a big question mark about whether the polls will be free and fair. The undemocratic manner of functioning of the state election commissioner too has added to the worry. The readers of this column are well aware how all the elections, including the election to the West Tripura Lok Sabha seat, post March 3, 2018 since the BJP-IPFT government assumed office have been r

KARNATAKA: Comrade B Madhava

VETERAN CPI(M) and trade union leader Comrade B Madhava passed away at his residence in Mangalore recently. He was 81. He was ailing for last few years. He is survived by his wife and three sons. He was associated with the CPI(M) for over four decades.A post-graduate in Arts and also a law graduate, Madhava hailed from Balkuru in neighbouring Kasargod district of Kerala. He was a former employee in the LIC and had fought for the rights of insurance workers. He resigned from the LIC to become a full timer of the Party, two decades ago.

MAHARASHTRA: SFI State Camp Plans Series of Struggles

THE SFI Maharashtra state camp was held at Wardha in the Vidarbha region from June 1-4, 2019. The SFI state camp, which is held regularly every year before the commencement of the academic year, was being held this time just a week after the Lok Sabha election results. It was attended by 112 delegates from 19 districts. They included 30 girl students.

TAMIL NADU: DYFI Leader Killed in Caste Dispute over Grass Bundle

TENSION and protest waves prevailed in Karaiyiruppu village of Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu, over the death of Comrade Ashok, 26, district treasurer of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), who was hacked by a gang belonging to caste Hindu hooligans on June 12th night.Comrade Ashok was hacked to death by a gang, while he was walking home around 10.45 pm. The gang threw the body on a nearby railway track.

Protest against Bihar Govt’s Failure in Preventing Child Deaths

THE Delhi state units of the All India Democratic Women’s Association, Centre of Indian Trade Unions, Students’ Federation of India, Dalit Shoshan Mukti Manch and Democratic Youth Federation of India held a joint protest demonstration at Bihar Bhawan, New Delhi on June 18 against the total failure of the Nitish Kumar led JD(U)-BJP state government in preventing the death of more than 107 children in Muzaffarpur. These are figures of the casualties in the hospitals. The number of children who have died in their homes is unaccounted.

Search form

Peoples Democracy

report