A FACT-finding team of national leaders visited Tripura from August 3-5, 2018 to study the situation there, after the BJP-IPFT government came to power in March 2018.

The team comprised Medha Patkar, leader of the National Alliance of People’s Movements,  Rajaram Singh, ex-MLA and general secretary of the All India Kisan Mahasabha, Ashok Dhawale, president of the All India Kisan Sabha, K K Ragesh, MP  and joint secretary of the AIKS, all the three MPs from Tripura – Jitendra Chaudhury, Shankar Prasad Datta and Jharna Das Baidya  and ex-MP Narayan Kar.

ON August 6, hundreds of activists of Nagrik Adhikar Manch(NAM) Delhi and victims of mob lynching organised a sit-in-demonstration in front of parliament to protest against the killings of innocent people in the name of “Gau Raksha” and other communal hate campaigns unleashed by BJP/RSS and its frontal organisations since 2014.

The protest gathering was addressed by CPI(M) Polit Bureau members Mohd Salim (MP) and Subhashini Ali (former MP),  Manoj Jha MP- RJD, and Sanjay Singh MP- AAP.

THE country is entering 50th year of bank nationalisation. On July 19, 1969, 14 major private banks were nationalised. In 1980, six more private banks were nationalised. It is an epoch making event, because only after that, the money deposited by the common people in the banks became safe. Before that, hundreds of private banks collapsed like a pack of cards.  People who deposited their hard earnings in the private banks panicked as their small savings meant for important domestic needs like education, marriage, hospitalisation were lost.

MERE SUSPICION IS ENOUGH  

AN eight-member fact finding team, consisting of members of parliament, national leaders of kisan movement and eminent leader of the Alliance for People’s movement Medha Patkar, called Democracy the first casualty under the five months rule of the BJP-IPFT alliance in Tripura.