THE Budget Session as usual began with the President’s Address to the joint session of Parliament on January 29. After this, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha met and made obituary references including in the name of former Lok Sabha MP and CPI(M) leader Khagen Das, who passed away on January 21 in Kolkata. Later the copy of the President's Address was laid and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley laid the copy of Economic Survey 2018-19 in both Houses of Parliament. On February 1, the finance minister presented the Union Budget for 2018-19 in Lok Sabha and after that the House was adjourned.

The 22nd state conference of CPI(M), Tamil Nadu was held at Tuticorin from February 17-20, 2018 with a promise to take the movement forward in the coming days. The conference began with the receiving of Red Flag brought from Chennai by P Isakkimuthu.

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on February 21THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses its grave concern at the alarming rise of levels of crony capitalism under this BJP government and Prime Minister Modi. One after another chosen corporates who have defrauded people’s money and manipulated the system are allowed to leave the country before facing the law of the land.

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on February 14THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) expresses its deep concern at the grave implications of the “Ram Raj Rath Yatra” flagged off yesterday at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh.  This rally was flagged off by the RSS-affiliated VHP general secretary in the presence of Faizabad BJP MP, Ayodhya’s BJP mayor and other BJP leaders.The yatra is supposedly to retrace the route of Rama to Sri Lanka, as described in the Hindu epic Ramayana.  It has declared that the main agenda is to administer a pledge to the p

CPI(M) senior leader and MLA Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, on February 18, has termed the rally organised by a fringe right-wing group using the tricolour, demanding the release of the accused in the brutal rape-and-murder case of an eight-year-old Bakerwal girl in Kathua district, as most shameful and against human values.The rally is an indication of dangers confronting Jammu and Kashmir. By supporting the accused the ‘Hindu Ekta Manch’ has shamelessly displayed their communal intentions.