MODI government is systematically working to set up a surveillance and censorship framework for the digital domain, which seeks to undermine our fundamental rights of free speech and privacy. The genesis of many of these initiatives predated the Modi government.

THE electoral bond scam has reiterated the deep rooted and unholy nexus between crony capitalists and the ruling class parties. It has also come to light that the leading tyre monopolies have directly paid the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to buy their silence on their illegal cartelisation. According to the data released by the Election Commission, BJP, the ruling party has received Rs 6 crores from CEAT and Rs 15 lakhs from MRF.

THE ten years of Modi led BJP government saw a relentless attack on the livelihood and working conditions of the workers. The hard won rights of the workers are sought to be curtailed to facilitate their unbridled exploitation by the big corporates.The BJP government has subsumed twenty nine existing labour laws into four labour codes. It is being propagated that these would universalise minimum wage, expand social security coverage and improve working environment.

AGARTALA, the capital city of Tripura, witnessed a large wave of red flags and banners on March 14. On that day, a huge youth rally was organised jointly by the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) state committee and the Tribal Youth Federation (TYF). Thousands of youth coming from different corners of the state took siege of the city avenues and raised a call for protecting the country, the constitution, secularism, right to education and employment besides making a bold appeal against all sorts of drug addiction.

"PRIME Minister Modi had declared (about corruption), 'na khaunga na khane dunga' ( neither would I eat, nor would I allow anybody else to eat), but the electoral bonds reveal that his party is the greatest eater of corporate funding ever heard of, said Brinda Karat, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member. They claimed to wipe out corruption and it is now clear that they lied to the nation and cheated the people of the country by taking more than half of the total sale of electoral bonds. Delivering the special address at the public meeting organised by the Central Chennai district committee of CPI(M)