BJP's Promises and Betrayals

DURING the 2014 and 2019 parliament elections, Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party made promises to Indian voters on some important key issues. These promises were not just made verbally but were included in their election manifestos. However, during the election campaign, Narendra Modi and others went even further by making bigger assurances and creating hype. It is the responsibility of any political party to fulfill the promises they made in their election manifestos once they come to power.

Climate Change and Extreme Events: An Update

THE UN World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) last month released its State of the Climate Report 2023, which not only confirms the fears of most observers that global warming has reached alarming levels, but also offers much evidence that climate change and its attendant impacts are advancing much faster than earlier thought.RECORD-BREAKING YEAR The WMO Report shows that “the year 2023 broke every single climate indicator.” The global average temperature in 2023 was 1.45 deg C ± 0.12 C above the 1850-1900 industrial era average.

Bihar: Huge Election Meeting in Khagaria

ON April 15, 2024, a massive and enthusiastic public meeting of the INDIA bloc was held at Khagaria in Bihar after the CPI(M)-INDIA candidate Sanjay Kumar submitted his election nomination form earlier in the day. Red flags of the Left, green flags of the RJD, tricoloured flags of the Congress, adorned the venue in large numbers.

CPI(M) Writes to EC on PM’s Speeches

Sitaram Yechury, CPI(M) general secretary wrote a letter to Rajiv Kumar, chief election commissioner, Election Commission of India on April 13, 2024. The letter pertains to the content of some of the speeches made by the prime minister, Narendra Modi, during the election campaign.

In the BJP Regime, Healthcare is Business

THE BJP has already started its campaign for the 2024 General Election with PM Modi making a "guarantee" in healthcare. However, what is happening is a gradual transformation of the healthcare system into a 'commodity' and its corporatisation.India adopted the Alma Atta Declaration of 1978, aiming for "Health for All by 2000 AD" through a free universal public healthcare system.

Fetishising the Growth Rate of GDP

JOHN Stuart Mill was among the foremost liberal thinkers of modern times who wrote extensively on economics and philosophy. Though under the influence of his wife Harriet Taylor Mill, he came closer towards socialism late in his life, it was a kind of cooperative socialism that attracted him; he continues to be regarded primarily as a pre-eminent liberal thinker. Economists of Mill’s time were haunted by the fear of the imminence of a stationary state, that is, a state of simple reproduction or zero growth-rate, in which there would be no further capital accumulation.

West Asia – Tensions on the Rise

IRAN had fired dozens of missiles and drones on Israel in retaliation to the attack on its embassy in Damascus, Syria. On April 1, Israel attacked Iranian embassy and killed 13 people, including two top-ranked generals of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). This is in violation of the 1961 Vienna Convention governing diplomatic relations and 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations that explicitly ban any sort of attack on diplomatic premises.

DSMM Observes Ambedkar Jayanti

THE Dalit Shoshan Mukti Manch (DSMM) organised a meeting to observe the 133rd Ambedkar Jayanti. The meeting took place at Parliament Street in New Delhi on April 14, 2024.People from various parts of Delhi-NCR participated in the programme, which is annually organised to pay tribute to Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, the chair of the drafting committee of the Indian Constitution, India’s first law minister, and a great social reformer, trade unionist, and thinker.

Maha: CPI(M) Begins Hingoli Lok Sabha Election Campaign

ON April 8, 2024, the CPI(M) began its election campaign for the Hingoli Lok Sabha seat in Maharashtra with an enthusiastic convention of more than 100 of its main activists. They came from the three districts of Nanded and Hingoli in the Marathwada region, and Yavatmal in the Vidarbha region. Parts of these three districts come in this constituency. The voting date for this seat is April 26. The CPI(M) had fought this Lok Sabha seat once earlier in 2014.

Comrade Neelima Maitra

THE Centre of Indian Trade Unions, in a statement issued on April 12, has expressed extreme grief at the passing away of Comrade Neelima Maitra, veteran leader of the trade union movement and a frontline organiser of the working women and scheme workers’ movement, the anganwadi sector, in particular. She was 92 years old and breathed her last after prolonged ailment on April 12, 2024 at a nursing home in Kolkata.Comrade Neelima Maitra’s political-organisational life spread over more than six decades.

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