THE Kerala CPI(M)’s major political campaign, Janakeeya Prathirodha Jatha   (People’s Resistance March), was inaugurated at Kasargode on February 20 and it will conclude on March 18 at Putherikandam Maidan in Thiruvananthapuram after marching through all the 140 assembly constituencies in the state. The jatha is led by MV Govindan, Polit Bureau member and state secretary of the Party, and the jatha team consists of CS Sujatha, M Swaraj, Jaik C Thomas and KT Jaleel with PK Biju as the manager.THE CONTEXTThe jatha is taking place in the background of severe financial

THERE is an overwhelming asymmetry between the level of “development” and the possession of natural resources among countries of the world. Take the group of most advanced countries, the G-7 comprising the US, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Japan and Canada. This group, while accounting for only 10 per cent of the world’s population, possessed over half of global net wealth as of 2020, and roughly two-fifths of the gross domestic product of the world (I have taken for convenience the mid-point of a range of estimates that lie between 32 and 46 per cent).

ELECTIONS to Tripura assembly were held on February 16 and the results were declared on March 2, along with Meghalaya and Nagaland, where elections were held on February 27.The Tripura results reveal that in the 60-member legislative assembly, BJP-led ruling alliance got a thin majority – winning 33 seats. They lost 11 seats which they secured in the 2018 election. The CPI(M) won in 11 seats, witnessing a reduction of 5 seats it had won in 2018 (when there was a direct contest between the Left Front and the BJP alliance).

THE orgy of violence unleashed in Tripura after the assembly election results were announced on March 2 was an act foretold once the BJP got a majority, albeit a narrow one.  As of March 6, around a thousand incidents of attacks and violence by the BJP gangs took place all over the state. These were in the form of physical attacks on CPI(M), Left Front and Congress workers and supporters, ransacking or burning of their houses and demolition of party offices.

ON February 26, 2023, a programme was organised on the topic 'Three Years of North-East Delhi Communal Violence' at the Quami Ekta Bhawan of Major Jaipal Singh Trust in North East Delhi. Around 110 people took part in this programme. Indumati started the programme by reciting a poem.A large number of people from the families affected by the violence participated. Among the affected, Malika, Aagaz, Ramsugarath and Rehana narrated their harrowing experiences. All of them had one thing to say that neither justice was served nor adequate compensation.