Cong Routed, BJP Tastes Victory with Help of AGP & BPF

THE 2016 Assembly election ousted the Congress from power in Assam. The Tarun Gogoi-led dispensation was in power for three successive terms since 2001. Bringing an end to the 15-year Congress rule, the BJP, with the help of alliance partners AGP and BPF, came to power with comfortable majority. In the 126-member Assembly, the BJP and its allies have won 86 seats, while the Congress managed to win only 26 seats. A majority of political observers and analysts predicted a hung Assembly.

United Resistance Against Violent Attacks on CPI(M)1

Widespread Attack Continues in West BengalFrom our special correspondent INTENSIVE political violence against the opposition is continuing even after three weeks after election results have been declared.In Basudebpur village in Purba Medinipur district, CPI(M) activist Amit Pradhan was brutally killed by the TMC gang. His only ‘fault’ was that he was a polling agent of the CPI(M) in Bhagabanpur assembly constituency. Pradhan, along with his father was kidnapped by the TMC miscreants. Amit, 32 and father of a child, was mercilessly beaten to death.

On the NEET Examination

THE confusion surrounding the National Eligibility Entrance Examination (NEET) -- a centralised entrance for the MBBS, BDS and PG medical courses --ended in the last week of May, with President Pranab Mukherjee’s assent to the ordinance brought by the central government following the Supreme Court ruling, which called for holding NEET from this year itself. Now, what does this mean in effective terms?

The Cost of Modi's US Visit: Offering Rs 2.8 lakh crore to Westinghouse

THE fourth visit of Modi to the US has very little to show as achievements. No wonder, the headlines screamed about “the start of the preparatory work” on six nuclear reactors as a major achievement. Not content with this, the Westinghouse AP 1000 reactors were hyped as fifth generation reactors, skipping two whole generations of reactors in between.

Modi’s Two Years

NEO-LIBERALISM is usually portrayed in terms of a “State versus Market” dichotomy, as entailing greater recourse to the market in lieu of State regulation, and hence constituting a “retreat of the State”.

Citizens’ Tribunal, A Commission with a Difference

FINDINGS of the Prakash Singh Committee, set up by the Haryana government to probe the violent Jat agitation for reservation, continue to generate criticism from various quarters including political parties -- both ruling and opposition. Even the Punjab and Haryana High Court questioned the validity of the committee headed by Singh, a retired police officer. Its report has become a laughing stock. A former Haryana minister has gone to the extent of demanding that a Supreme Court judge look into its findings.

Thinking Together

What are the reasons for recurring droughts in the country? Explain how the long term effect of erroneous policies by the governments has led to such a situation. What are the features of this year's drought? What are the immediate and long-term solutions.
Sarbatrik Brahma, Kolkata

First National Convention of Kunabi Community Held in Karnataka

BEING children of the nature, adivasis are the protectors of environment, and not its destructors. They are patriots. Tribal people’s contribution to Indian culture, language, society and economy is immense. But, negating their noble contribution, they are being ill-treated, neglected and subjected to inhuman treatment.

Left Parties Hold Rally Exposing the Two-year Misrule of NDA Govt

THE Karnataka state units of Left parties – CPI(M), CPI, SUCI(C) AIFB, CPI(ML)-Liberation – had jointly organised a rally protesting against the misrule of the two-year old NDA government at the centre and three-year old Congress government in the state. The rally was held at Freedom Park in Bangalore on June 6.This rally was a culmination of the month-long campaign by five Left Parties – CPI, CPI(M), Forward Block, SUCI(C), CPI(M)-Liberation – across Karnataka. Before the rally, a massive procession of about ten thousand people was held from City Railway Station to Freedom Park.

Order Judicial Enquiry on Mathura Development

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on June 4, 2016.

THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) expresses its serious concern over the developments in Mathura that have so far led to the death of at least 24 people. The dead include two senior police officers and 22 people claiming to be militants of the Swadhin Bharat Subash Sena (SBSS). This SBSS claims to have over 2000 armed militants supposed adherents and true followers of Netaji Subash Chandra Bose.

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