Assembly Elections: Battleground against BJP

ELECTIONS to the five state assemblies in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa have been notified. Of these, in two states, Goa and Punjab, there are governments of the BJP and its allies; in Uttarakhand and Manipur, there are Congress governments; but it is in Uttar Pradesh, where there is a Samajwadi Party government that the most significant electoral battle will be fought. In Punjab, the Akali Dal-BJP coalition government is facing a strong anti-incumbency mood with the acute agrarian crisis, rising unemployment, rampant corruption and drug abuse being the hallmarks of t

Disastrous Impact of Modi’s Demonetisation

MODI government’s historic blunder of banning notes on November 8 has destroyed the lives of crores of poor people in the country, causing irreversible damage that will cast a long shadow in the months to come. Typically, Modi and his sycophants have been going around claiming that this disastrous ‘plan’ will usher in achhe din for the country, ignoring the hardship and pain it has caused.

CITU, AIAWU & AIKS to Jointly Observe Martyrs Day on Jan 19

THE Centre of Indian Trade Unions, All India Agricultural Workers Union and All India Kisan Sabha have jointly decided to observe January 19 as Martyrs Day all over the country.

Anti Demonetisation Protest Movement

THE two months of demonetisation have been marked by unprecedented mass mobilisation in the state of Kerala. Right from the day of announcement, it was criticised as a crazy scheme which would at best only tackle the fringes of black economy. By the tenth day the entire cabinet marched from the secretariat to the Reserve Bank of India office at Thiruvananthapuram on November 18, for a day long protest dharna. Since then, it has become a popular site for numerous protest marches by different mass organisations and organisations of cooperators.

WEST BENGAL: People Protest Loot of their Money

WHILE people are facing acute distress due to demonetisation, the back to back arrest of two TMC MPs has once again brought to surface the massive loot of peoples’ money through chit funds. Sudip Banerjee, TMC leader in Lok Sabha and Tapas Paul, film star turned MP were arrested by the CBI in the Rose Valley scam. Every day more and more facts are surfacing, proving that the ultimate beneficiary of the chit fund plunder was the ruling party of West Bengal.Left parties have come out in the streets to protest against the demonetisation and for the logical conclusion of the CBI investigation.

Central Committee Communique

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) met at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala on January 6-8, 2017. It has issued the following statement on January 8.DEMONETISATIONThe demonetisation of the 1000 and 500 rupee notes announced by the prime minister on November 8 has caused immense loss to a large part of our economy plunging crores of people into agony and loss of livelihood. The prime minister’s appeal for a fifty day time frame after which he assured things will come back to normalcy is over and normalcy is far from being reached.

Drought Situation faced by Southern States of India

Resolution adopted at the Central Committee Meeting held on January 6-8, 2017 at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.THE south Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, parts of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and Union Territory of Puducherry are facing severe drought.Tamil Nadu is facing a serious drought ever known in the history of the state. Except Chennai, the whole of Tamil Nadu is in the grip of worst drought. Both the monsoons – south west and north east failed causing a deficit of rainfall to the tune of more than 62 percent. Lakhs and lakhs of acres of cultivable lands rema

Gnanpeeth Awardee M T Vasudevan Nair Becomes Sangh Parivar’s Latest Target

GNANPEETH award-wining author M T Vasudevan Nair has become the latest target of Sangh Parivar in Kerala for his stand against demonetisation. Nair, the most popular novelist and national award-winning film script writer, was threatened by BJP’s state general secretary A N Radhakrishnan. The BJP leader warned that Nair should remain silent on issues like demonetisation as he has no locus standi in reacting on such matters.

Initiatives to Strengthen Kerala’s Public Health Care System

TO safeguard the interests of the common people, the government of Kerala has designed innovative policies to be followed in the public health sector. The standard of health services in Kerala has reached an impressive level compared to the rest of the states in India, which is also on par with that of the developed world. The state had pioneered universal health care services in the country and its palliative care service has largely been applauded. Kerala is also the only state to have a formal palliative care policy in the country.

The Demonetisation Fiasco

THE demonetisation of 86 percent of the currency of the country, a virtually unprecedented measure anywhere in the world, has brought immense hardship to the working people of the country, and will damage their living standards permanently (since the Modi government plans not to replace the entire value of the demonetised notes by printing new ones).

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