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TRIPURA: BJP Continues Attacks on CPI(M)

AS the people of Tripura have been more and more expressly showing anger with new zeal against the BJP-IPFT misrule in Tripura, the BJP is continuing their state-sponsored despotic terror on the opposition parties, particularly the CPI(M), aiming to cripple its functioning and keep the Party immobilised.BARBARIC ATTACK ON CPI(M) OFFICESOn February 23 last, at about 11.15 hours, a gang of BJP miscreants carried out a sudden attack on the North Tripura district office and the Dharmanagar Sub-Divisional office of the CPI(M) and extensively damaged and ransacked everything insi

CPI(M)’s Appeal

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on February 28THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) appeals to the people, to all Party state committees, sympathizers and supporters to collect funds for relief and rehabilitation work for those affected by the communal violence in Delhi. The Delhi state committee of the CPI(M) will be forming a Solidarity Relief Committee for this purpose.The communal violence in Delhi has led to a tragic loss of lives, extensive destruction of livelihoods, of homes and property.

Detach Census Operations from the NPR

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on March 4, 2020GIVEN the opposition by several state chief ministers over the National Population Register enumeration process, it is necessary to separate the collection of data for the Census operation from the announced NPR enumeration.The Census operations are constitutionally mandated to be conducted every decade, while the NPR figures in the Rules framed under the Citizenship Amendment Act of 2003.  Hence, legally they should not be clubbed together.The CPI(M) reiterates its understanding that the NPR data will be automatically u

Budget belies hopes of Farmers

IF one combines allocations for agriculture and allied activities, fertiliser subsidies, irrigation, rural development and land resources, one finds that the revised estimates(RE) for the current year is almost 25 thousand crore rupees  less than what was originally budgeted for this year. In fact, the budget documents show that the REs for almost every scheme of the ministry of agriculture and farmers' welfare has been reduced in the current year, and that these cuts are maintained for the coming year.

Display Information Regarding Arrests

BRINDA Karat, Member, Polit Bureau of CPI(M), on March 2, wrote a letter to the Delhi police commissioner, Srivastava , regarding displaying the names of the arrests made in Delhi since the communal riots began.Below we produce text of the letter:This is in connection with the arrests and detentions in connection with the communal violence which engulfed the north-east area of the capital. I have read in press reports about the 148 FIRs filed and the numbers of those arrested. I have visited many of the families of those killed as well as those injured.

Giving Life through LIFE Mission

SHELTER is one of the most basic needs of human beings along with food and clothing. In the run up to the Kerala state assembly elections in 2016, the LDF had announced that we will undertake a comprehensive housing programme to do away with homelessness in the state. Subsequently, when we assumed office, most of the people who came to the CM's office raised the issue of housing.

National Convention of Writers and Cultural activists

ON March 1, 2020 a national convention of the writers and cultural activists was held at Jantan Mantar, New Delhi against the CAA, NPR and NRC. Hundreds of poets, writers, cultural activists Hindi, Malyalam, Telgu and other languages participated in this convention.Janwadi Lekhak Sangh, Dalit Lekhak Sangh, Jan Sanskriti Manch, Pragtisheel Lekhak Sangh, Indian Cultural Forum, Delhi Science Forum, Jan Natya Manch, Jansanskriti, New Socialist Initiative, AIPSN, Sanghwari, Cinema of Resistance and Vikalp were some of the organisations that organised this national convention.

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