AS part of the implementation of the call given by the 8th all India conference of All India Agricultural Workers’ Union held at Warangal in Telangana recently, the Punjab state unit of AIAWU held a convention of Dalit women agricultural workers on October 4 at Jalandhar.

Pichhle saal dange hue, khoob hui khoon ki barish.Agle saal achhi hogi fasal matdaan ki.-Gorakh Pandey(Last year there were riots, an ample monsoon of blood.Next year will bring a rich harvest during elections.)IT has been a long standing strategy of the BJP and the RSS to try and divide the society on communal lines and use the dogmatic thinking and blind-fold ignorance of some people as side-kicks to gain electoral success. One of the latest ploys for polarisation framed by some communal Hindutva outfits is a myth called ‘Love Jihad’.

IN line with certain glaring trends of' global socio-ethical degeneration which basically, apart from many other concomitant factors, have facilitated the emergence and also the impact of what might be termed the Gorbachev phenomenon in the erstwhile USSR, in August 1991, when a somewhat phoney attempt at a coup d'e'tat was overcome with suspicious case, Gorbachev, yielding reluctantly to a more blatant, if also slippery accomplice, Yeltsin, said: "My mission is fulfilled".

JUTE is the oldest cash crop of eastern India. It is a natural coarse fibre, made from the stems of a tropical plant and used for making rope/yard and woven into sacking, hessian, etc. Raw jute, as it is known in trade, comprises jute and mesta fibres. Jute fibre is obtained from two plants species, such as Corchorus Capsylaris (white jute) and Corchorus Otitoruus (tossa jute). The plant species Hibiscus sabdariffa var, altissima yield mesta fibres. Besides, there is another type of fibre known as bimli but not in the same species of jute.

RESULTS of recently held elections to the 16th Lok Sabha preceded by high decibel and most expensive campaign underline the dark side of largest democracy in the world. We may take note of few facts to understand the malaise in our electoral process. USE OFMONEY POWERThe pernicious influence of big money in derailing the democratic process was noticed by the Vohra committee.