Farmers Observe Nationwide Day of Betrayal

AT the call of Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) given in its meeting at the Singhu border on January 15, 2022, tens of thousands of farmers across the nation came on the streets to observe the ‘Day of Betrayal’ condemning the Modi-led BJP central government on January 31. Protest demonstrations were held in hundreds of districts and blocks across India, and memoranda were submitted addressed to the president of India, to local authorities.

BJP to Further Deepen Economic Crisis with Budget 2022-23, Say Unions

BUDGET 2022-23 presented by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has not gone down well with major sections of the society including the working class, farmers and women. The unions representing these sections have criticised the budget calling it a reflection of the anti-people and pro-corporate nature of the BJP government.

KERALA: On the SilverLine Project

DESPITE the mounting protest of opposition and the manipulations of a section of media, the government of Kerala is making efforts to materialise the SilverLine project, a semi high speed rail corridor. The project was one of the major promises of the LDF in its election manifesto in the 2021 assembly elections. The LDF government envisages this as the major infrastructure development project. This project is designed to avoid traffic snarls, road accidents and air pollution from vehicles, a major concern of the state.

Claims of Good Governance Index for J&K are not matching with ground realities: CPI(M)

WHILE reacting to the release of the 'district good governance index' (DGGI) for Jammu and Kashmir, by the union home minister, Amit Shah, CPI(M) leader Mohamad Yousuf Tarigami on Saturday, January 22, 2022, said that claims of good governance and development in J and K are far from ground realities.

UP: SFI State Conference Resolves to Fight NEP

16TH UTTAR PRADESH state conference of the Students' Federation of India (SFI) was held successfully on January 22-23, 2022 in Sultanpur.

The two-day state conference was inaugurated by SFI all India president, V P Sanu. He talked about anti-student policies of the BJP government like the disastrous National Education Policy (NEP) and NEET, saffronisation, privatisation, centralisation, corporatisation and communalisation of education.

Pinarayi writes to Modi: IAS Cadre Rules Amendments would Weaken Cooperative Federalism

KERALA chief minister, Pinarayi Vijayan has requested the prime minister to drop the proposed amendments to the Indian administrative service(IAS) cadre rules. In a letter written to prime minister Narendra Modi, Pinarayi wrote that these amendments would ‘weaken cooperative federalism'.

Repression on Anganwadi Workers & Helpers Continues

THE strike of Anganwadi workers and helpers has been going on for the last 50 days in Haryana even as the BJP government in the state intensified measures of a crackdown on them. Despite all the tactics of repression, the movement has only strengthened and the strike is expanding.

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Statehood of Tripura: A Product of Prolonged People’s Struggle

THERE is no instance in the world history of any monarchy being transformed into a democratic state without people’s struggles. But, in the observance of 50 years of attainment of statehood of Tripura, the way the prime minister and the union home minister glorified the last monarch of Tripura suggests as if the present statehood of Tripura was a mercy of the royal family. Both the prime minister and the union home minister were addressing virtually a hall meeting on this occasion in Agartala on January 21.

Telangana: 3rd State Conference held Successfully

THIRD state conference of the CPI(M) Telangana committee was held successfully from January 22-25, 2022 in Turkyamjal, Rangareddy district. A total of 455 delegates, 95 observers and 15 veterans attended the conference. Among them were 82 women. 302 delegates attending the conference were below 50 years of age; 386 delegates came from socially oppressed sections and 316 delegates belonged to the basic classes – working class, agricultural workers and poor peasants. 401 delegates joined the Party in the last 30 years.

CPI(M) 23rd Party Congress Logo Released

E P Jayrajan, Central Committee Member of the CPI(M) along with other leaders of the Party while releasing the logo of the 23rd Party Congress to be held in Kannur from April 6-10.

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