Supreme Court Indicts Mamata Govt

ON Friday, March 28, 2014, the Supreme Court of India pronounced its judgement on a gangrape case in Birbhum district of West Bengal. The court verdict indicted the TMC controlled state government, saying that the “state has failed in protecting such serious violation of a victim’s fundamental right.”
The judgement also noted the absence of measures “for security and safety of the victim and her family.”

Revenge: Only Motive of Vindictive Modi Govt

A number of prominent intellectuals of the country issued the following statement on March 26, criticising the vindictive moves of the Modi government against social activists Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand.
WE are shocked and outraged by the continuing attempt of the highly vindictive Modi government and the Gujarat police to somehow implicate activists Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand, along with three victim-survivors of the state-sponsored Gujarat carnage in 2002 on patently trumped-up charges.

Fourth List of CPI(M) Candidates

SrStateSeatCandidate1.BiharUjiarpurRamdeo Verma2. DarbhangaHriday Narayan Yadav3. West ChamparanPrabhuraj Narayan Rao4. KhagariaJagadish Chandra Basu5. MaharashtraHingoliD B Naik6. PunjabSangrurJoginder Singh Aulakh

With this the total number of CPI(M) candidates announced so far is 94.

All India Radio Election Broadcasts 16th Lok Sabha Elections

10 Minute slots

Sr.DateSlotName

2/4/201422.05 to 22.15Prakash Karat

18/4/201421.35 to 21.45Sitaram Yechury

2/5/201421.50 to 22.00Brinda Karat

5 Minute Slots

3/4/20149.55 to 10.00Inderjit Singh

4/4/20149.25 to 9.30Sudha Sundararaman

CPI(M) Announces Candidates for Telangana

THE CPI(M) Telangana state committee has declared candidates for 3 Lok Sabha seats and 17 assembly constituencies. Md Afroze Samina, former chairperson of Khammam municipality and AIDWA central committee member is the Party’s candidate for Khammam Lok Sabha constituency. Nandyala Narsimha Reddy, CPI(M) Nalgonda district committee secretary is the candidate for Nalgonda Lok Sabha constituency and Cherupally Sitaramulu, CPI(M) state secretariat member and former MLC is the Party candidate for Bhuvanagiri Lok Sabha constituency.

Campaign Picks Up in Tehri

A huge public meeting was organised in Sabhawala village in Vikasnagar area on March 31, in support of the CPI(M) candidate from Tehri constituency, Shiv Prasad Deoli.

CPI(M) Candidates in Maharashtra

WHILE the Maharashtra state committee of the CPI(M) had initially decided to contest three Lok Sabha seats in the state, it later decided to fight a fourth one as well. This is the constituency of Hingoli which is spread over parts of the Vidarbha region (Yavatmal district) and Marathwada region (Nanded and Hingoli districts). Brief introductory notes on the CPI(M) nominees in these four seats follow.

CPI(M) Campaign Gets Good Response in Hisar

Brinda Karat said that health, education, transport sectors are being privatised and a very large number of poor people are becoming indebted due to expensive treatment in private hospitals. Thousands of posts in government services are lying vacant. She blamed the Hooda government for destroying jobs on the one hand while claiming credit for reservation for a particular community on the other.

DMK, AIADMK Refrain from Criticising Modi

ACCUSING the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) of going soft on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), G Ramakrishnan, Tamilnadu state secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), has questioned why the two parties, during their election campaigns, had been refraining from criticising the BJP and Narendra Modi.

Keen Contest in Northern Bengal

TEA belt in northern Bengal has suffered unbearable pains for the last three years. Tea gardens have been closed without any effort from the state administration to reopen them. Starvation deaths have become regular phenomena in those gardens. Large numbers of tea workers are suffering from acute diseases with health facilities declining. Moreover, the owners are having a field day as the state administration has reversed its position and has now sided with them.

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