THE Karnataka state units of Left parties – CPI(M), CPI, SUCI(C) AIFB, CPI(ML)-Liberation – had jointly organised a rally protesting against the misrule of the two-year old NDA government at the centre and three-year old Congress government in the state. The rally was held at Freedom Park in Bangalore on June 6.This rally was a culmination of the month-long campaign by five Left Parties – CPI, CPI(M), Forward Block, SUCI(C), CPI(M)-Liberation – across Karnataka. Before the rally, a massive procession of about ten thousand people was held from City Railway Station to Freedom Park.

A FEW days back, the Narendra Modi government has amended the Public Sector Recruitment Rules retrospectively providing for appointment of candidates from the private sector, to very senior management positions in the central public sector undertakings and also in the PESB (Public Sector Enterprise Selection Board). Obviously, the profit-making blue chip PSUs are the target of the Modi government in this regard. The government's argument is that this will help CPSUs in getting ‘capable and efficient’ hands from the private sector.

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on June 9.THE 50-paragraph Indo-US Joint Statement issued during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the USA titled ‘The United States and  India: Enduring Global Partners in the 21st Century’ is a declaration that cements India’s role as a  strategic junior partner of US global strategic designs.The agreement covers almost the entire scope of bilateral relations as well as a global partnership declaring that India has abandoned its established independent foreign policy and has firmly tie

THAT the BJP will indulge in “beef politics” to create communal polarisation in Uttar Pradesh has been made amply clear in recent days. Mohammad Akhlaq was lynched in his house in Bisara village in Dadri in September last year on the false charge that he had kept beef and consumed it in his house. Eighteen persons, including some BJP men, were arrested and are now facing trial for the murder of Akhlaq.

The central executive committee of the Students’ Federation of India has issued the following statement on May 31.

THE spate of racial violence on African citizens living in India has yet again brought to fore the routine racial discrimination that they have to face in their daily lives. The fact that such acts of violence are happening in the National Capital is even more worrying.