WEST BENGAL: Ruling Nexus Fails the Communal Acid Test, Ismail’s Sewing Machine Endeavours

MUHAMMAD Ismail Ansari, owner of a small tailoring shop was robbed of all the seven sewing machines he had. Just about 100 metres away from there, Dilip Shaw’s grocery shop was set afire and burnt to ashes. The same happened to the shops of Akhter Hussain and Sirajuddin Ansari. Gita Devi’s home was ransacked and adjacent to it Mani Jaiswal’s shop also got robbed off. The vicinity of Hajinagar market in Naihati had all the charecteristic wounds and bruises of a communal riot.Dilip Ghosh, state BJP leader posted in his social media page that he had done his duty which was bestowed upon him.

AIDWA Supports Abolition of Arbitrary Triple Talaq

THE All India Democratic Women’s Association, in a statement issued on October 18, has extended its unequivocal support to the demand of Muslim women for an abolition of the instant arbitrary triple talaq. In its own campaigns, AIDWA has seen overwhelming support of Muslim women for this demand.It has strongly disapproved of the retrograde position taken by the All India Muslim Personal Law Board in this regard in its petition to the Supreme Court.

MAHARASHTRA: AIDWA Holds State Workshop for Muslim Women Activists

A STATE level workshop for the Muslim women activists of AIDWA was held on October 15-16, 2016 at Belapur in New Mumbai. Over 50 women from nine districts participated.

Thinking Together

The union government wants to bring in simultaneous elections for the Lok Sabha and state assemblies. Will this not be beneficial for the country? What is the CPI(M) stand on this proposal? Gurmesh Singh, ChandigarhTHE BJP-led government is eager to initiate simultaneous elections for the Lok Sabha and the state assemblies. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has come out supporting the idea of holding simultaneous elections.In September, the Modi government has sought the views of the people on the issue of holding simultaneous elections for the Lok Sabha and the state assemb

Oppose this Authoritarian Onslaught

WHAT has been happening in the National Capital Territory of Delhi is truly scandalous. Ever since the AAP government was formed after the February 2015 assembly election, there has been brazen and calculated attack by the central government to hamper the elected state government. The naked use of central power through the Lt.

Withdraw false cases, release all the arrested, Stop repression, demands CPI(M) Leader

Satyavati locked up in Tanaku jail, in West Godavari for the last month had a solidarity visit by Brinda Karat, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member and others in the jail on October 13. She and thousands of others have been in a struggle to protect their land and livelihood from the setting up of an aqua food processing park which is highly polluting and will affect both agriculture and fishing in thirty villages.

For a More Equitable GST

THE introduction of VAT in the mid 1990s robbed the states of much of its taxation powers and curtailed their fiscal autonomy. With the constitutional amendment and introduction of the GST what had been prevailing de facto has now been de jure abolished. Now states no more have independent powers for indirect taxation, except on alcohol and petrol. They are forced to abide by the decisions of the GST Council where no decisions can be made without the concurrence of the central government, not even if all the states take a united position.

‘Addressing Peoples Aspirations & Grievances Rather than Blatant Use of force, is the only Remedy’

CPI(M) leader and MLA, Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami has written a letter to Mehbooba Mufti, chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir on October 10 regarding the tragic death of 12 year old Junaid, and regarding the indiscriminate use of force and random arrests of people under draconian laws like PSA. He said, with the tragic and shocking death of one more Juniad, all the Kashmiri parents have lost one more young son, who could have bloomed and proved an asset for the state.

Students Reject RSS-BJP’s Divisive Regime Based on Exclusion and Hate

ON January 17, 2016, the shocking news of the institutional murder of Rohith Vemula confirmed that Dronacharyas still exist in Indian education system and Eklavyas have to pay gurudakshina with their lives for the crime of being born in the lower caste.This incident posed a question to all of us: What is the meaning of the entire development and progress of Indian society if an individual is not even considered as a human being? We are not able to recognise a living being as equal creature of nature.

Reject Roopanwal Commission Report

THE central executive committee of the Students’ Federation of India in a statement issued on October 7, has said that the AK Roopanwal commission report is erroneous and vacuous.A one member judicial commission headed by former judge of Allahabad high court AK Roopanwal was formed to look into the circumstances, which led to the ‘institutional murder’ of Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad Central University.

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