Successful Struggle by NPRD

A PLANNED protest dharna by disabled persons turned into a victory rally when the government under pressure of the month-long countrywide campaign met most of the demands raised in the course of the campaign.The National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) had at its July executive committee meeting decided to conduct a countrywide campaign beginning November 1, 2019 protesting against the non-implementation of various provisions of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, which was passed on December 16, 2016.The campaign focused attention on the myriad problems with the iss

Tackling Crimes against Women

THE gang rape and murder of a 27-year old woman, a veterinary doctor, on the outskirts of Hyderabad has once again starkly highlighted the violence women are facing in their everyday lives. The bestiality and cruelty of the crime has evoked outrage and protests all over the country.That this is not an isolated event becomes clear when we see similar horrific crimes committed in the days preceding and after the Hyderabad incident. In Ranchi, a young college student sitting with a friend was abducted and gang raped; in Tonk, Rajasthan, a six-year old girl returning from school was kidnapped

Statement on Release of NSSO Consumption Survey Data

In a statement issued on November 21, prominent intellectuals have demanded that the government of India releases the report and data of all NSSO Surveys that have been completed and approved by the NSSO’s internal systems, including the results of the 75th round Survey of Consumer Expenditure, 2017-18.A media leak published in Business Standard has revealed that the 2017-18 Consumer Expenditure Survey shows a sharp decline in average consumption.

Tribals & Traditional Forest Dwellers Demand Upholding the FRA

ON November 21, on the nationwide call of the Bhumi Adhikar Andolon (land rights movement), thousands of tribals and other traditional forest dwellers from across the country assembled at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar. This was the culmination of the campaign that was started by more than thirty organisations against the Supreme Court’s judgment of February 13, 2019, directing the forest department to evict all those whose claims under the FRA have been rejected.

CPI(M) Condoles Kshiti Goswami

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on November 24THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses its deep grief and sorrow at the unexpected death of Kshiti Goswami, general secretary of the Revolutionary Socialist Party, at the Apollo hospital, Chennai, where he was undergoing treatment.This loss leaves a void not only for the RSP but for the Left Front in West Bengal and the Left movement in the country.The CPI(M) conveys it deep condolences to Kshiti Goswami’s family and all comrades of the RSP.

Sordid Manipulations for Grabbing Power

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on November 23THE political immorality of the BJP has reached its nadir. The clandestine manner in which the chief minister and deputy chief minister of Maharashtra have been sworn in shows the extent to which the BJP can stoop to grab power. This is in line with what they have done earlier in Goa, Karnataka, north eastern states etc.It is unfortunate that both the constitutional authorities – president’s office and the governor’s office – have been misused to achieve their political purpose.The future develo

Scrap Electoral Bonds

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on November 22THE recent exposures on how the electoral bond scheme was a route to finance the ruling party has once again established that such legalisation of political corruption must end.The PMO has been directing the finance ministry to instruct the State Bank of India to flout the ministry’s own laid down rules to permit the realisation of expired bonds to facilitate its horse-trading in the post Karnataka assembly election situation that resulted in a hung assembly.In the interests of Indian democracy an

Comrade Partho Kar is no more

AGED 70 years, Comrade Partho Kar died on November 22 in NRS Hospital in Kolkatta. Comrade Partho was suffering from cancer, which was detected quite late. He was associated with Party publication and Party papers for a long time.In 1978 Comrade Partho Kar came from Jamshedpur, Jharkhand (then in Bihar) as a whole timer to work in the central office of the kisan sabha. In 1979 the Hindi paper of the Party-Loklehar started publication of which he was assigned managerial responsibilities. He worked till 2001 in Loklehar/People’s Democracy managerial office.

Apple Crisis in Kashmir Valley

THE plight of apple growers in Kashmir is awful, says Zahoor Ahammed, a farmer from Kulgam. “We have heard of farmer’s suicide in Maharashtra; if the existing situation persists, apple growers in Kashmir will also be compelled to commit suicide,” said Ahammed while speaking to the AIKSCC delegation that visited Kulgam on November 14, 2019. The delegation representing the All India Kisan Sangharsh Co-ordination Committee (AIKSCC), the largest umbrella platform of around 250 peasant and agricultural workers organisations working across the country visited Kashmir valley on November 13-15.

OSHWC Code: A Design to Impose Modern Slavery on Working People

THE BJP government, since assuming office for a second term in May 2019, has been working overtime to take away the rights of workers through codifications of labour laws, a euphemism for corporate unbridled process of profit maximisation. Accordingly, the labour minister introduced the Code on Wages and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (OSHWC) Code in the Lok Sabha on July 23. The Code on Wages was passed by Lok Sabha on July 30 and got the Rajya Sabha nod on August 2. The president gave his assent on August 8.

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