Stop Discrimination of Kerala

KERALA is facing a harsh discriminatory approach from the BJP-led government at the centre. Because of this prejudiced attitude of the centre, Kerala is experiencing a serious financial crisis. The Modi government seems determined to thwart the LDF government’s development agenda by strangulating its finances.Centre-state relations are structured in an asymmetrical fashion. The centre has all the major powers to raise resources while the states are required to undertake development and social welfare expenditure that far exceed their revenue generating capacities.

DELHI: Court Issues Notice to Delhi Police on CPI(M) Complaint

WHILE hearing a plea by Brinda Karat, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member and K M Tewari, Delhi state secretary, the additional chief metropolitan magistrate Vishal Pahuja has directed the DCP, New Delhi on February 5, to submit a report on the non-filing of FIRs against BJP leaders Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Verma for delivering hate speeches in Delhi recently, during the campaign for the assembly elections.The court gave this direction after Karat had approached the court after her written complaints to the commissioner of police and the SHO, Parliament Street failed to elicit any response. She an

Delhi: Human Chain against CAA-NRC-NPR

ON January 30, on the martyrdom day of Mahatma Gandhi a human chain was supposed to be held from Rajghat to Rajghat in Delhi forming a full circle. The plan was to hold the chain from Rajghat, Lal Qila, Jama Masjid, Delhi Gate, Golcha, Shanti Van, Kodiya Pul and back to Rajghat. The call was given by JEJAA, ‘Hum Bhaathke Log’ and ‘Aman Biradhari’.

Another Devious Deal for Middle East

IN the midst of the ongoing impeachment trial of president Donald Trump and on the day Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was indicted on charges of bribery and fraud, the two maverick conservatives got together at the White House to announce the controversial new Middle East Peace Initiative, touting it as a mother of all plans to end one of the longest running disputes in the Middle East.Trump said that it was a ‘historic opportunity’ for the Palestinian people.

Budget 2020-21: Short-Term “Fixes” Endangering the Economy

THE budget figures these days mean very little. The difference between what the budget provides and what actually happens does not come to light even after a time-lag of two years, while earlier two years were the limit. And knowing this, the government provides figures in the budget which are extravagant and hence meaningless, but look pretty. What is remarkable about the 2020-21 budget however is that notwithstanding massive liberties taken with figures, this budget still has been so non-descript that hardly anyone outside of government has had a kind word to say about it.

Bihar: Bacchwara- Land of Sacrifices and Struggles

BIHAR has witnessed intense struggles against the feudal landlords in the last decades.

Manuvaadi Economics and the Hindu Right

THE finance minister presented the union budget 2020-2021 in the context of the growing attacks by the Hindu right on the peaceful protests in Jamia Millia Islamia and Shaheen Bagh against the CAA-NRC-NPR. Both these developments need to be seen in the context of the desperate attempts by the BJP and its fringe organisations to polarise the upcoming Delhi elections and hide the economic mess that has been created by the NDA government in the last six years.

Delhi: CPI(M) leaders address public meetings against CAA

LEADERS of the CPI(M) held a series of public meetings in Delhi against the Constitutional (Amendment) Act and the proposed National Population Register(NPR) and the National Register of Citizens(NRC).Sitaram Yechury, general secretary of the CPI(M) addressed public meetings in Khureji and Shaheen Bag, Delhi on January 25 and 26 respectively. Yechury said that the BJP is creating a dangerous situation in the country. The BJP is hell-bent on polarising the Indian people on communal lines and this is the prime reason that the CAA was brought in the country.

Tripura: Thousands participate in Human Chain

THOUSANDS of people formed human chain and read out the preamble of the Indian constitution in Agartala and other parts of Tripura on the 71st Republic Day on January 26.The five Left Parties-CPI(M), CPI, RSP, AIFB and CPI(ML) Liberation had given the call to take oath to protect our Constitution by reading out the preamble of the Constitution.In Agartala at 1 pm, thousands of people formed the human chain. At six places along the chain, eminent doctors, sportspersons, jurists, educationists took the charge of reading out the preamble and taking the oath. CPI(M) PB member Manik Sarkar,

Telangana: Conspiracy to evict from forests: Brinda Karat

THERE is a conspiracy to evict tribals (adivasis) from their dwelling forests and hand over their lands to corporates by the present central government of Modi, stated Brinda Karat, Polit Bureau member of CPI(M). She addressed the second state conference of Telangana Adivasi Girijana Sangham (TAGS) in Eturu Nagaram, Mulugu district. Speaking at the conference, she said that the history of the adivasis is the history of struggle. Brinda reminded that thousands of adivasis gave their lives in the struggle for freedom against the British rule.

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