Failing on Black Money, Foolish Attempt to Go Cashless

HAVING failed miserably on the black money front, the Modi government has been extolling the virtues of a cashless economy. What it seems to have forgotten is that cashless transactions require a digital infrastructure, which we simply do not have. Without an infrastructure that makes mass scale digital transactions possible, coercive measures such as demonetisation or a penalty on cash transactions, will only boomerang.

Debate on Uniform Civil Code Ill-timed, Smacks of Politics: CPI(M) to Law Commission

THE CPI(M) has said that the Law Commission seeking opinion of political parties on the viability of a uniform civil code is ill-timed and smacks of a politically motivated agenda. In a letter to Law Commission Chairman Justice B S Chauhan on December 17, 2016, Party general secretary Sitaram Yechury said, “At the outset, it is to be stated that the CPI(M) is constrained to observe that the exercise undertaken by the Law Commission to ‘engage’ in a ‘healthy conversation’ about the ‘viability of a uniform civil code’ smacks of a politically motivated agenda.

CPI(M) List of Candidates for Punjab Assembly polls

CPI(M) List of Candidates for Punjab Assembly polls The following is the list of CPI(M) candidates for assembly elections in Punjab to be held on February 4.

CITU Denounces Disinvestment In Public Sector General Insurance Companies

THE Centre of Indian Trade Unions, in a statement issued on January 19 has denounced the desperate moves of the Narendra Modi government for disinvesting 25 percent shares in all the five public sector general insurance companies and opening them to private hands including foreign companies.

Cashless Economy is for Enriching Corporates

THE Modi government has demonetised Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes only to benefit the corporate sector and online companies (e-commerce) would earn more in India compared to the US, Canada and other countries as a result of building digital, cashless economy , said BV Raghavulu, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member at a seminar organised by Vijayawada central city committee of CPI(M) on January 11.Addressing the seminar held at Makineni Basavapunniah Vignana Kendram, Raghavulu said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was helping corporates with initiatives such as demonetisation.

Police Firing Killed villagers in W Bengal: TMC Government Exposed in Bhangar

THE Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal has got exposed in Bhangar, where two persons were killed in police firing while they were protesting against forcible land acquisition. The bloodshed came after months of protest by villagers in Bhangar in South 24 Parganas. From 2013, multi crop agricultural lands were forcibly acquired for a power grid station. Moreover the land loot was organised by mafias led by the ruling party leaders. Arabaul Islam, the notorious TMC gangster in the area, is the main culprit behind this land grab and ousting of peasants without compensation.

KERALA: Conspiracy Targeting CPI(M) Exposed

IN a stunning revelation, an RSS cadre has claimed his involvement in a political murder in Kerala in 2006 for which the CBI had arrested senior CPI(M) leaders, thereby laying bare a diabolical plot to witch-hunt the CPI(M) and its leaders.

Thinking Together

Successive reports of the Association for Democratic Reforms, an NGO, on funding of political parties shows that the bulk of the contributions to the national parties, including the CPI(M), are from unknown sources.

Modi as Gandhi

THE BJP and the RSS have been trying to appropriate Gandhi for quite some time. After demonising Gandhi and all that he stood for, the outcome of which was the dastardly assassination of Gandhi by the Godse brothers, the BJP-RSS have been systematically striving to appropriate all the national figures from Gandhi to BR Ambedkar.Now the next step has been taken. From appropriation to displacement.

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

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