CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on January 25THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly disapproves the move by the chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) for the Waqf Bill.
WELL-known Marxist scholar, the late Amalendu Guha, had argued persuasively that in modern India there co-existed in the minds of the people a dual national consciousness: a local, regional-linguistic nationality consciousness, of being a Bengali, or a Tamil, or a Gujarati or an Odiya; and also simultaneously an overarching pan-Indian consciousness. This duality, he had argued, had to be cognized and accepted; an over-emphasis on either one to the exclusion of the other would produce a dangerous reaction.
CONSIDERING the ten earlier budgets of the BJP-led government led by prime minister Narendra Modi, there is nothing much that the farmers and agricultural workers of India can expect from the coming eleventh budget except more vicious attacks on their livelihood, made under the smokescreen of high-sounding phrases about their welfare.To put it bluntly, it is now crystal clear that all the earlier budgets of the Modi regime have fattened a handful of crony domestic corporates and international finance capital, and have squeezed all sections of the working people, farmers and agricultural wor
