THE All India Kisan Sabha, in a statement issued on October 19, has condemned the Narendra Modi-led BJP government’s farcical announcement of the minimum support prices (MSP) for Rabi Marketing Season 2024-25 claiming it is “at least 1.5 times the all India weighted average cost of production, will ensure remunerative prices to farmers and incentivise crop diversification”.

Below we publish the statement issued by the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), on October 21THE constitutional court judgment of the SC in the batch of petitions asking for recognition of same sex marriages has disappointingly held that there is no fundamental right to marry or to live together in a civil union with all the consequential benefits. The verdict is a huge setback to the LGBTQ+ couples who face several forms of discrimination in their daily lives since the law doesn’t recognise them as couples.

THE Left and democratic parties held a rally in Lucknow on October 11, with the slogan ‘Save Constitution, Save Democracy’ and ‘Defeat BJP, Victory to INDIA Alliance.’ The core issues addressed during the rally included rising prices, unemployment, increasing atrocities against women, minorities, and dalits, the prevalence of bulldozer raj, and communalism.

PROFESSOR Anil Bhatti who passed away on October 11, 2023, was an outstanding Marxist scholar of German Philosophy and German Literature who taught for nearly four decades until his retirement in 2009, at the Centre for German Studies of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, and was an activist of the teachers’ movement at JNU. He was at various times the chairman of the Centre for German Studies at JNU, the dean of the School of Languages there,and the president of the Goethe Society of India.

THE Modi government had made a dangerous decision to amend the Mines and Mineral (Development and Regulation) Act in favour of its corporate partners. The revised Act removed lithium and five other minerals from the list of restricted atomic minerals, thereby permitting private entities to engage in mining and exploration. This swift and covertly planned move undoubtedly carries a clear underlying motive.It is evident that this amendment aims to facilitate the private acquisition of India's recently discovered extensive lithium reserves in Jammu and Kashmir.