THOUSANDS of adivasi men and women started pouring into Azad Maidan in Mumbai from the night of May 18. By next day May 19, 2015, more than 25,000 people had gathered for the first-ever statewide adivasi rally jointly organised by the Maharashtra state committees of the Adivasi Adhikar Rashtriya Manch (AARM) and Communist Party of India (Marxist).

IN a massive cleanliness drive throughout the state of Kerala, lakhs of people gathered under the banner of CPI(M) in every street to clear off the garbage accumulated in public spaces. This initiative taken by the Party ahead of the monsoon season is to ward off the threat of epidemics that may result during the monsoon season with garbage piled up in many places and the failure of the state government to launch the pre-monsoon cleaning drive.

THE new executive body of the TTAADC was elected unanimously at the first meeting of the newly elected members of the ADC. This was followed by a meeting of the Tripura Left Front Committee with the newly elected MDCs.

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on May 22, 2015.

THE official celebrations of this BJP-led NDA government’s completion of one year have begun, Prime Minister Modi launched the celebrations amidst a flurry of media blitz from Mathura. The BJP has announced the holding of 200 public meetings across the country. All union ministers, we are told, are to hold at least three public meetings and three press conferences each, ie, over 200 public meetings and 200 press conferences across the country. This may be in addition to the 200 public meetings other RSS/BJP leaders may hold.