“OUR common heritage and the glorious tradition of unity in diversity was developed during the freedom movement. Today this heritage is under attack. A conspiracy is being hatched to eradicate the values mentioned in the Preamble of our Constitution,” said Subhashini Ali, Polit Bureau Member of the CPI(M).She was speaking as a keynote speaker at the Jan Convention on August 3, organised by Sanjha Manch at the SDC auditorium in Ranchi.ATMOSPHERE VITIATED BY THE SANGHSubhashini said that the atmosphere in the country has rapidly deteriorated.

AUGUST 15, 2022, seventy-five years of India's independence, Har Ghar Tiranga; the country heard the prime minister wax eloquent in his address from the Red Fort about his inner feelings of distress when women are insulted, about the need to preserve the dignity of women, of "Nari Shakti" and so on.

THOUSANDS of people, all over West Bengal, are now on the streets demanding a thorough probe of the teacher appointment scam and corruption of the TMC ministry. That the scam was conducted in a planned manner by TMC leaders and ministers is out in the open now.The state government has become paranoid. The ruling party is obsessed with shielding Mamata Banerjee. Sixteen people were arrested from south Kolkata even before a scheduled rally began. They included veteran theatre activist Bimal Chakraborty.

A LARGE road show WAS  organised by the Hanumakonda district  committee of the CPI(M) on July 26.  Later addressing the public meeting, CPI(M) general secretary, Sitaram Yechury said that on the occasion of 75 years of independence, the central government is celebrating Amrit Utsav. He expressed unhappiness that even after 75 years people could not get education, healthcare, houses and employment in the country. PM Modi has given a call to hoist the national flag on every house on this occasion.

OTHER states of the country may have had their own experiences, but this is the first experience for Madhya Pradesh when there was no difference between the State Election Commission and the ruling BJP. On many occasions, it was the chief electoral officer who was seen showing the way to escape the BJP leaders. For example, in these elections, there was a mess in the voter lists, which was never seen before. Not only the names of the people were missing. Rather, the polling stations of members of the same family were different.