Bangladesh: A Grim Landscape of Bloodletting and Violence

THE world was shocked and outraged with the bloodletting and violence between October 13 and 16, in Bangladesh. This is unprecedented in terms of emotional damage; because this was a direct assault on the Durga puja celebrations in some parts of Bangladesh. The violence broke out in the Durga puja festivity in Comilla’s Nanuar Dighi. Later on, it spread to Chandpur, Noakhali and Chittagong.The forum of Hindus, Buddhists and Christians has formally stated that there has been violence, destruction and arson in seventy Durga puja pandals.

No to Updating National Population Register

THE updation of the National Population Register (NPR) is back on the agenda of the Census 2021 enumeration. According to a news report in The Hindu (dated October 27), the form for updation has been issued as part of the handbook for Census officers that has been given to all the states and was generated through an online system on August 18. According to The Hindu report, the document issued to the district Census officers by the Registrar General of India contains the form which will collect details on fourteen parameters of all family members for updating the data ba

Withdraw BSF Jurisdiction Extension

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statements on October 16

Withdraw BSF Jurisdiction Extension

THE decision of the central government to extend the jurisdiction of the Border Security force (BSF) upto 50 kilometres inside the international borders in Punjab, West Bengal and Assam from the earlier 15 kilometres jurisdiction is an encroachment on the rights of the states and the federal principle.

An Appeal for Tripura Solidarity Fund

ON September 8, Tripura witnessed widespread attacks on CPI(M) offices and the houses of CPI(M) cadres across the state. More than a score of offices were burnt down or ransacked. Even the state committee office in Agartala was not spared. Vehicles in front of the offices were burnt. Many houses of Party leaders and activists were set on fire or ransacked. These coordinated attacks by mobs of BJP men were meant to suppress the CPI(M) and stop its activities among the people.These fascistic type of attacks are an onslaught on democracy and a brutal attempt to suppress the opposition.

KERALA: More Women Elected as Branch Secretaries

SHUBHA Lakshmi is pursuing her graduation in English literature. She is the newly elected secretary of CPI(M)’s Vilakkuvattam branch, in Kollam district. She is one of the youngest branch secretaries of CPI(M) in the state.In the branch conferences being held in the state, more women leaders are coming to the forefront of the organisation. The number of CPI(M) branches headed by woman secretaries has increased significantly.The representation of women in local self-governments has reached 50 per cent with the intervention of LDF governments.

MAHA: SFI Study Camp

THE Maharashtra state study camp of the Students' Federation of India (SFI) was held from October 1-3, 2021 at the Comrade B T Ranadive Smarak Bhawan, Belapur, Navi Mumbai. The camp was attended by 105 delegates from 15 districts. Just after this camp, on October 5-6, the first physical SFI CEC meeting in the last two years was successfully hosted by the SFI Maharashtra state committee at Belapur.SFI state president Balaji Kaletwad hoisted the SFI flag and greeted all the delegates.

TRIPURA: Remembering Comrade Bijan Dhar

THE Tripura state committee of CPI(M) held a condolence meeting in memory of Comrade Bijan Dhar at Rabindra Satabarshiki Bhawan in Agartala on October 18, 2021. Polit Bureau members – Prakash Karat, Biman Bose and Manik Sarkar, Central Committee members, Robin Deb from West Bengal, Deben Bhattacharjee from Assam, all Central Committee members from Tripura and leaders of other Left parties attended the meeting. Bijan Dhar’s wife, Ila Dasgupta and daughter Purbasha Dhar were also present on the dais.

Rising Hunger in India: Statistics and Lies

THE 2021 Global Hunger Report released recently has once again highlighted the deplorable conditions of food insecurity and nutrition in India. The paradox is that India is simultaneously the country with the largest number of hungry people in the world and the country with the largest public stocks of foodgrains.As per the latest Global Hunger Index, India has been ranked at 101 -- the lowest among all South-Asian countries except Afghanistan -- among 116 countries.

Martyrs’ Day & Anniversary of Godavari Parulekar Observed

ON October 10, 2021, Martyrs' Day and the 25th death anniversary of the legendary leader of the CPI(M) and the Warli Adivasi Revolt, and the only woman president of the AIKS in its history, Comrade Godavari Parulekar, was observed in a large meeting of over 3000 comrades organised by the CPI(M) and AIKS Thane-Palghar district committees at the Comrade Godavari Shamrao Parulekar Bhawan at Talasari in Palghar district.

Effigies of BJP Leaders Burnt on Dussehra

LAST week saw two major nationwide actions by lakhs of farmers led by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), demanding the dismissal and arrest on murder and conspiracy charges of the BJP’s union minister of state for home Ajay Mishra Teni, who is the mastermind behind the Lakhimpur Kheri massacre that mowed down four farmers and a journalist on October 3.On Dussehra Day, October 15, to symbolise the triumph of good over evil, effigy-burning of top BJP leaders like Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, Narendra Singh Tomar, Manohar Lal Khattar, Ajay Mishra Teni and others took place in thous

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