THE WEEK IN PARLIAMENT

THE budget session of parliament started on January 31 with President Droupadi Murmu’s address to a joint sitting of both houses. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the interim budget on February 1.Speaking on the motion of thanks on the president’s address in the Rajya Sabha, A A Rahim said the president was very eloquent about the ‘pran pratishtha’ at the Ayodhya Ram temple. It was pointed out as the biggest achievement of this government. How can a government portray Ram temple as their biggest achievement in a secular country like India?

Maha: Save Education, Give Jobs: SFI-DYFI

THE Maharashtra state committees of the SFI and DYFI organised an impressive statewide rally and public meeting of students and youth at the Azad Maidan in Mumbai on January 31, 2024. The last statewide rally of the SFI-DYFI was held six years ago in 2018. The two main slogans of this rally which were popularised all over Maharashtra were “stop hate, lies and violence!” and “save education, give jobs!” Around 5,000 students and youth from 16 districts of the state took part in the rally.

Scheme Workers Issue Chargesheet to NDA Govt and MPs

HUNDREDS of anganwadi, ASHA and mid-day meal workers have taken part in rallies conducted in the parliamentary constituency headquarters and offices of the MPs throughout the country, and held demonstrations and public meetings and issued chargesheets to the MPs and ministers. This mobilisation was conducted after an extensive campaign among the workers and the beneficiaries as per the call of the National Convention on Scheme Worker’s Rights on September 25, 2023 by CITU federations – All India Federation of Anganwadi Workers and Helpers (AIFAWH), ASHA Workers' and Facilitators' Federation

CPI(M) Stand on One Nation, One Election

A THREE-member CPI(M) delegation consisting of Sitaram Yechury, general secretary, Nilotpal Basu, Polit Bureau member and Muralidharan, Central Secretariat member met the High Level Committee – One Nation, One Election, at their invitation, on February 6, 2024. This was subsequent to the detailed submission made by the Party voicing its serious objections to the proposal to conduct simultaneous elections.

JCP Elects First Woman Leader – Tomoko Tamura

THE Japanese Communist Party (JCP) made history recently by electing its first woman party leader. Tomoko Tamura was appointed as the new Chair of the JCP Executive Committee by delegates to the party’s 29th Congress in January.

Greater Noida Farmers Hold March to Parliament

THE farmers of Greater Noida took out a march to parliament on February 8, after the BJP-led Uttar Pradesh government failed to implement the written assurances on the various demands of farmers and landless from land acquisition affected villages given on September 16, 2023.

Maha: Lenin Death Centenary Commemorated

AT a time when the RSS-BJP was inciting communal polarisation all over the country on the issue of the inauguration of the Ram temple at Ayodhya on and around January 22, 2024, the CPI(M) was mobilising all over the country on and around January 21 to commemorate the death centenary of the outstanding revolutionary leader and great Marxist theoretician Vladimir Lenin.

Killing Welfare Algorithmically

SOME of the most prominent AI startups, tech companies, their executives, researchers and engineers would have us believe that artificial intelligence (AI) poses an existential risk to humanity and should be considered a societal risk on par with pandemics and nuclear wars.

Interim Budget Reveals a Decade of Neglect

Below we publish the extracts from the statements issued by various organisations on the interim budget presented by the union government on February 1.A Desperate Push towards Privatisation: CITUThe Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) strongly condemns the interim budget presented by union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, deeming it a collection of falsehoods and a desperate push towards privatisation. The budget is an attempt to regain political power by asserting an unfounded 50 per cent increase in average income and falsely portraying moderate inflation.

CITU Working Committee Calls for Defeating the BJP Govt

THE working committee of CITU, which met in Hanumakonda, Telangana from February 2-3, has called upon the working class of India to intensify decisive class actions to isolate and defeat the corporate-communal nexus running the government. The working committee has also called upon the working class across the country to actively participate in nationwide joint protest actions, rural bandh, and sectoral strikes called by the central trade unions (CTUs) and the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) on February 16.K Hemalata, president, CITU hoisted the red flag and presided over the meeting.

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