THE ‘Save Agriculture, Save Democracy’ day on June 26 was widely observed all over India at thousands of places by lakhs of peasants and workers. June 26 marked the 46th anniversary of the imposition of the Emergency in 1975 by the then Congress regime. This year, people condemned the current undeclared Emergency of the BJP regime.

SPLIT in the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) has spiced up the political atmosphere of Bihar. Chirag Paswan, the son of Late Ram Vilas Paswan has accused the Janata Dal (United) of engineering split in the LJP and has strongly condemned the silence of BJP during the operation. He has indicated to come out of the NDA and launch a state-wide “Ashirvad Yatra” (Meeting people for blessings) to garner support for his future course of political activities.

JOHN Maynard Keynes was by far the most insightful bourgeois economist of the twentieth century. He could not afford to be a mere apologist of the system, since he was writing in the midst of the Great Depression and in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution. To pretend at such a time that everything was fine with the capitalist system would have been the biggest disservice he could have rendered to that system which he so dearly loved.

MANY extraordinary things are happening in Yogiraj, Uttar Pradesh: opposition candidates prevented from filing their nominations for zilla panchayat presidentship elections, corona patients in villages being asked to sit under neem trees in order to breathe oxygen because of the unavailability of medical facilities...The most extraordinary, however, are the scandalous land deals being entered into in Ayodhya by members of the trust entrusted with the construction of the Ram Temple for which thousands of crores of rupees have been collected from devotees.On June 13, leaders belonging to the

THE Delhi High Court while granting bail in the UAPA case connected to the north-east Delhi violence, for three detenues, has stated, “it seems, that in its anxiety to suppress dissent, in the mind of the State, the line between the constitutionally guaranteed right to protest and terrorist activity seems to be getting somewhat blurred. If this mindset gains traction, it would be a sad day for democracy.” This applies to numerous cases in which any form of dissent is termed anti-national.