Below we reproduce the text of the letter written by CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury to the chief election commissioner Dr Nasim Zaidi on May 20, 2015 on the linkage of Voter ID card details with Aadhar data base.

DURING the course of this one year, Prime Minister Modi has gone on a record eighteen foreign visits. While the country and the people wished that he paid more attention to solving domestic problems, the RSS is elated that through these visits, the PM helped in spreading RSS networks in 40 countries across the world! Clearly, he continues to discharge his responsibilities as an RSS pracharak!

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) met on May 16 & 17, 2015 at New Delhi. It has issued the following statement:

THE CBI Special Court on April 9, 2015 sentenced Satyam Raju and his brother to spend seven years in jail for “forging documents and falsifying accounts in the country, in the biggest ever corporate accounting fraud” and on March 14, 2015 the CBI made arrests of a few government functionaries for stealing confidential documents for multinational consultancy firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers and arrests of few others continued till the end of March for “Corporate Espionage”.

THE Summit of the Americas held in the second week of April in Panama City has been an eventful one. Besides the handshake and meeting between the American and Cuban presidents, what was on show was the unity shown by the Caribbean and Latin American countries on key issues. The trend has been continued form the last Summit held in 2012 in the Colombian port city of Cartagena. That summit was notable for the solidarity extended to Cuba. Barring the United States, all the other countries in the continent were united in their opposition to the American economic blockade on Cuba.