A joint statewide workshop of the Jati Ant Sangharsh Samiti - JASS (Maharashtra state chapter of DSMM), Adivasi Adhikar Rashtriya Manch – AARM, and the Alpasankhyak Hakk Sangharsh Samiti – AHSS, was held at the B T Ranadive Bhawan in New Mumbai on February 18, 2026. It was attended by 236 leading activists from 22 districts.

THE idea of India was not forged in the fiction woven by Savarkar’s Hindutva ideology. It was shaped by the blood and sweat spilled in the national freedom struggle to dislodge British colonial rule. Obviously, the idea set out a different playbook which contributed to the foundational pillars of the Constitution solemnised on January 26, 1950.

Assam today stands at a crucial political juncture. After nearly a decade of BJP rule, discontent is visible across the state. Prices of essential commodities are rising, unemployment among the youth remains very high and farmers, workers and small traders are facing growing economic distress. Instead of addressing these basic problems, the BJP-led government has increasingly relied on divisive politics and communal polarisation along with authoritarian rule to strengthen its political base.

RAHUL GANDHI, the national leader of the Indian National Congress, and the leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha, addressed a UDF rally on March 7. He spoke on many things, and even made a five-guarantees declaration, promising the Kerala people a series of doles, including free travel for women in KSRTC buses, monthly award for girl students, interest free loans for the youth, health insurance and an enhanced pension.

THE 10th conference of the Tripura Scheduled Caste Coordination Committee (Tripura Tapshil Jati Samanway Samity) concluded with the call to lay primary focus on the struggle for restoration of democracy which may give impetus to the day-to-day movements for livelihood and resist the divisive politics of the ruling BJP. The conference commenced on March 7 with flag hoisting and homage to the martyrs’ column in front of the Agartala Town Hall which was named after Sitaram Yechury.