What is Going On at Sandeshkhali?

THE recent happenings in Sandeshkhali and the swell of public discontent clearly indicate that the people are no longer willing to tolerate such rapacious and ruinous misrule enforced by Trinamool Congress in rural Bengal.

Kerala: Solidarity with NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha

UNDER the Modi government, media freedom in India has come under serious threat, with journalists trolled, harassed, and even arrested for doing their jobs. India’s ranking on the World Press Freedom Index has been consistently falling since the Modi government came into power in 2014.

A Historic Verdict

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on February 15, 2024THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) hails the historic judgment of the Supreme Court, which has struck down the electoral bonds scheme as unconstitutional. By this verdict, this unscrupulous scheme designed to finance the ruling party by anonymous corporate donors has been completely scrapped. The CPI(M) had declared at the outset itself that the Party will not accept electoral bonds as this scheme legalises corruption. The CPI(M) had challenged the electoral bonds scheme in the Supreme Court

Solidarity with Kerala: Programmes Held across the Country

Below we publish reports of the programmes held across the country on February 8, in solidarity with Kerala. TRIPURAKerala Solidarity Day was observed throughout the state of Tripura on February 8. Protest rallies, processions, sit-in and various other forms of demonstrations took place in most sub-divisions, highlighting the indifferent and hostile approach pursued by the Modi government towards Kerala.

Kerala Says a Big No to Modi Selfie Points

KERALA chief minister, Pinarayi Vijayan, emphatically stated that the state would not permit the display of prime minister Narendra Modi's flex boards and selfie points at ration shops.

DUJ Expresses Concern Over Journos Injured While Covering Farmers’ Protest

It also said that the Internet shutdown in seven districts of Haryana and three districts of Rajasthan, had made it extremely difficult for journalists to cover the protests.

AMID reports of Haryana police using drones to fire tear gas shells and lath-charging at the Punjab-Haryana border injuring over 100 farmers, some journalists on reporting assignment were also injured.

CITU Condemns Brutal Police Attacks on Farmers

THE Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), in a statement issued on February 14, has strongly condemned brutal police crackdown by Haryana police forces at Punjab-Haryana border on the protesting farmers in their march to Delhi to press for their legitimate demands including legal guarantee of MSP. The farmers were attacked on February 13, 2024 at two border points on Haryana-Punjab border, they were brutally lathi charged, they faced tear gas shells, some dropped by drone.

AIKS Condemns Repression on Farmers

THE All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), in a statement issued on February 14, has condemned the violent repression unleashed on farmers marching to Delhi at Shanbhu Border and other places. The use of drones to throw teargas, the concrete barricades, rubber bullets, huge iron spikes on the roads and the indiscriminate arrests of farmers and leaders exposes the barbaric face of the BJP government led by Narendra Modi.The use of drones to drop tear gas on farmers shows the extreme vengeance that this BJP government holds for the farmers of our country.

Corporates Hijack Union Budget for Agriculture: Farmers are Not a Priority for Modi Govt

THEunion government plays an important role in designing the investment priority of the state governments towards agriculture.

A Hindutva-Based Population Policy

THE finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, in her interim budget speech announced the setting up of a high-powered committee “to study the challenges of fast population growth and demographic changes”. The announcement of such a committee in a budget speech was itself a curious one. If the government intended to frame a new population policy based on a committee to study population growth, it should have found a mention in the president’s address to parliament.The purpose of the high-powered committee is also unclear as the fact of “fast population growth” is itself a contestable one. Fur

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