. I do not want to elaborate on the climate of intolerance which has now emerged in the country. The kind of incidents that have occurred in the past few months in the country have been described by some as isolated, I reject that. There were price rise and other various issues before the house, but why did we take up this issue? That these incidents are not isolated is being recognised by this house as also your chair. The way this matter was being discussed, in fact it is not like that, but much more serious. The word ‘intolerance’ is not enough to describe it.

WEST Bengal is witnessing rising resistance and mass activities against the misrule and terror tactics of the Trinamul Congress. The Bengal Platform of Mass Organisations (BPMO) had organised jathas to cover 64,000 polling booths in the state. The rest of the 17,000 booths were to be covered later. These jathas took place between November 14 to 30. According to the reports received so far, over 60,000 booths were touched by around 18,000 jathas.

CAMPAIGN for the municipal elections in Tripura has been going on in full swing. The Left Front is clearly ahead of other parties. The polling will be held for 19 out of 20 urban local bodies. In Jirania Nagar Panchayat of West Tripura district, the Left Front candidates won unopposed as neither the Congress nor the BJP could field candidates in any of the 11 wards. In Amarpur Nagar Panchayat too, Left Front won six of the 11 wards unopposed. In Khowai Municipal Council, CPI(M) candidates won uncontested in two wards.

THE winter session of Kerala assembly began on a stormy note on November 30 with the Left Democratic Front stepping up attack on the government, seeking excise minister K Babu’s resignation in the bar bribery scam, within and outside of the House. The CPI(M)-led opposition raised the banner of protest as soon as the 11-day session began. The moment Speaker N Sakthan invited Babu to reply to a question, the entire opposition was on its feet. The opposition kept up its protest every time Babu rose to reply to supplementary questions.

THE winter session of Kerala assembly began on a stormy note on November 30 with the Left Democratic Front stepping up attack on the government, seeking excise minister K Babu’s resignation in the bar bribery scam, within and outside of the House. The CPI(M)-led opposition raised the banner of protest as soon as the 11-day session began. The moment Speaker N Sakthan invited Babu to reply to a question, the entire opposition was on its feet. The opposition kept up its protest every time Babu rose to reply to supplementary questions.