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Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU): May Day Manifesto 2024

ON this May Day 2024,THE Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) extends warm fraternal greetings to the working people across the world who are fighting capitalist onslaught and to protect their hard won rights and their unity.CITU greets and congratulates the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), the only class oriented and militant global trade union, for being in the forefront in uniting the workers all over the world to fight against imperialism and capitalist exploitation.CITU greets the working class of socialist countries, China, Cuba, Vietnam and North Korea.

CPI(M) Writes to EC Demanding Action Against PM’s Hate Speeches

Sitaram Yechury, general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has addressed a letter to Rajiv Kumar, chief election commissioner, Election Commission of India on April 22, seeking initiation of action against Narendra Modi for his hate speeches. Below we publish the text of the letter.ENCLOSED please find clippings from The Hindu, Indian Express and the Times of India – all from the front pages of their Delhi editions of April 22, 2024.

Kerala: Wide Criticism on Congress Leader’s Remarks on Kerala CM

CONGRESS leader Rahul Gandhi's provocative and unsubstantiated comments about Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan have drawn widespread criticism from across the political spectrum in Kerala. During several public events, Rahul Gandhi, who has faced multiple interrogations by the Enforcement Directorate, expressed his surprise at the agency's inaction regarding Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.Referring to the arrests of Hemant Soren and Arvind Kejriwal, the sitting MP of Wayanad said that two chief ministers had already been imprisoned for opposing the BJP-led central government.

Spewing Hate and Bigotry

THE prime minister’s vitriolic speech of April 21, delivered two days after the first phase of polling of the Lok Sabha elections, has been widely condemned both in India and abroad.  The language and bigotry which he displayed to incite hatred against the Muslim community and the political parties whom he accused of favouring them were reminiscent of the rhetoric he employed in his speeches immediately after the Gujarat pogrom against Muslims that happened in 2002 when he was the chief minister.

CPI(M) Lodges Complaint against PM Modi

Brinda Karat, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member and Pushpinder Singh Grewal, Delhi state secretariat member of the CPI(M) lodged a complaint to the SHO, Mandir Marg police station on April 22, 2024, against Narendra Modi, prime minister, for promoting enmity between groups and making statements that are imputations and assertions that are prejudicial to national integration.Since the Mandir Marg PS refused to accept the complaint it has been sent to the Commissioner of Police, Delhi.

State Road Transport Corporations are Made to Sink

Defeat BJP led NDA and Vote for Left, Democratic & Secular PartiesTHERE are 53 State Road Transport Corporations (STUs) in the country. 24 STUs were formed under the Road Transport Corporations Act 1950. Seven STUs are municipal undertakings, nine are government departments and 13 are registered under Companies Act.After independence, a prolonged discussion took place on passenger transport.

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