THE Special Court at Bangalore has convicted Jayalalitha, the chief minister of Tamilnadu and the general secretary of AIADMK in the case against her for acquiring disproportionate wealth. Based on the judgment, Jayalalitha should immediately step down from the post of chief minister of Tamilnadu.
This judgment is a warning signal for those who indulge in corrupt activities and are dishonest in public life. CPI(M), Tamilnadu state secretariat is of the view that this judgment will strengthen the struggle against corruption.
THOUSANDS of people, on the call of the CPI(M) district committee of Malkangiri, the southern most Adivasi populated district of Odisha, demonstrated before the sub-collector’s office demanding a CBI inquiry into the land allotment and mining scams, in which the ruling BJD and its leaders are involved.
THE gruesome beheading of three westerners by the Islamic State (IS), previously known as ISIL and ISIS, has once again led to a large scale American military intervention in Iraq. Alarmingly, the US has used the alleged threat posed by the IS to its homeland security to extend the military intervention to Syria. The chorus of right wing voices in the United States has demanded a full scale military intervention in the region. In the videotapes released by the IS on the beheadings, it is a masked man speaking with a pronounced British accent, who carries out the decapitations.
MORE than five thousand workers, under the banner of MNREGA Mazdoor Union Punjab (affiliated to CITU), marched to the office of the Punjab rural development and panchayats department director in Mohali on September 23, and organised an impressive dharna against the government’s move to weaken the rural job scheme.
THE Bihar state conference of SFI, held in Patna on September 6 after a long gap, has raised a great hope among the participants and the newly-elected leadership to bring the mass of the students under the banner of ‘independence, democracy and socialism’ and foster the vision of socialism as the battle cry against the onslaught of neo-liberal agenda pursued by the ruling classes of the county.
AT the invitation of the International Department of the Communist Party of China, a 12 member CPI(M) delegation was sent by our Party. This delegation was led by Janardan Pati, Central Committee member of the Party. The delegation visited China from September 15-24, 2014. The delegation went to China at a time when the President of China was in our country on a goodwill visit. So the timing was very important.
Our delegation visited the most industrially advanced province of China i.e., Guangdong, the granary of China i.e., Hunan province and the national capital, Beijing.
TELANGANA armed struggle day was observed under the aegis of CPI(M) Telangana state committee through an anniversary celebration meeting at Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in Hyderabad on 17th September, 2014. Before the meeting Telangana armed struggle warrior and noted writer Dasarathi Rangacharya was honoured by CPI(M) leaders at his residence.
HUNDREDS of CPI(M) workers, led by Party state secretariat member Raghunath Singh, marched through the streets of Sudhar town of Ludhiana on September 27, protesting against the recent murderous attack on Party tehsil secretary Santokh Gill and demanding immediate arrest of the culprits.
CPI(M) Rajya Sabha MP Sitaram Yechury has strongly opposed the government’s policy of disinvestment of Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) and rejected the arguments in favour of the move. In response to a letter of union minister of state for finance Nirmala Sitharaman, Yechury has said “I am not in agreement with the explanation given by you in support to your policy of disinvestment of shares in CPSEs, nor with your arguments defending the prudence behind disinvestment”.