On September 3, on the eve of the all party parliamentary delegation leaving for the Srinagar, general secretaries of CPI(M) and CPI, Sitaram Yechury and S Sudhakar Reddy, addressed the media at Constitution Club and issued a joint statement articulating the understanding of the present Kashmir problem and steps that need to be taken for defusing the current crisis and ultimately moving towards a solution of this worsening problem.
Comrade V V DakshinamoorthiCPI(M) Kerala state secretariat member and former chief editor of Deshabhimani, Comrade V V Dakshinamoorthi passed away on August 30. 82 year old Dakshinamoorthi was under treatment at Kozhikode District Co-operative Hospital in Calicut for lung cancer. Comrade Dakshinamoorthi, an eminent parliamentarian and an excellent orator has been in the forefront of teachers’ movement in its founding years.
There is a lot of confusion about the Aadhaar Card among large sections of people. What does the CPI(M) feel about attempts by the Modi government to make the possession of the Aadhaar card mandatory?THE CPI(M) had taken a clear position against making the Aadhar card mandatory. It was of the opinion that such a step would actually exclude millions from the benefits of government schemes and programmes. The CPI(M) was clear that while the government was promoting its use in the name of transparency, ending of corruption etc, its real intention was to keep large sections of the poor from
Various women’s organisations and groups that have been working with Muslim women and fighting for their rights as equal citizens in all spheres of life, have strongly condemned the patriarchal, inhuman and unjust propositions put up by the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) to the Supreme Court in their affidavit concerning justification of triple talaq and polygamy. In a statement issued on September 3, they stated that the AIMPLB’s stand that ‘men have greater reasoning power compared to women’ smacks of a medieval mindset and prejudice against women.
The Centre of Indian Trade Unions, in a statement issued on September 3, expressed serious concern over continuance of countrywide strike by Govt Nurses under the leadership of of All India Govt Nurses’ Federation since 2ND September 2016 with the Govt of India indulging in complete inaction in sorting out the long pending demands of the Nurses of Central Govt Hospitals. As many as 20000 nurses of Govt Hospitals including those run by MCD have joined the strike.
The centenary year of the great declaration of Sree Narayana Guru that “we have no caste” was celebrated from August 24 to 28 in approximately two thousand centres across Kerala. A variety of programmes were organised and people from all walks of life, including intellectuals, cultural activists, sportspersons and political leaders, took part in them.
Make no mistake, Reliance Jio's entry into mobile data and voice services is going to cause a tectonic shift in the industry. Not because the rates for data are low; or voice is free. The Jio rates are not significantly lower than what other players are offering. Nor is it due to the PM himself “lending” his image to Jio, an Ambani product.So why do I call this is a tectonic shift? Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio has now birthed the convergence paradigm that all voice calls should be treated as data. Everyone knew this was coming.
The country witnessed a massive strike by the working class across the country on September 2, 2016, the largest ever strike against the impact of the neo-liberal policies. The entire country was brought to a grinding halt. Millions of workers came out on to the streets and blocked the highways and railways to vehemently express their resentment and anger against the BJP government’s anti-worker and anti-people policies.
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement September 8. THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly condemns the announcement of ‘flexi fares’ announced by the railway ministry for Durunto, Shatabdi and Rajdhani trains. This provides for an increase in fares upto 50 percent over and above the normal fares for 90 percent of the seats.
