CPI(M), TNUEF Take Up Cudgels for Dalits

A RUMOUR was spread that a dalit boy teased a caste Hindu girl. Without waiting for anything, more than 100 people barged into the dalit area and torched six houses and damaged more than fifty houses. This is not an odd incident that can be brushed aside as some eve-teasing and reaction case. In Dindigul district, Nilakottai taluk, there are two villages called Nadupatti and Kariyampatti. Dalits live in Nadupatti and the caste Hindus live in Kariyampatti. On November 25, a rumour was spread that a boy from Nadupatti had teased a girl from Kariyampatti.

‘Declare Odisha Cyclone a National Calamity’ Centre Feels Compelled to Shell out Rs 300 Crore

ON December 5, 2013, a five-member delegation from the Odisha state unit of the CPI(M) met the president of India at New Delhi, followed by a meeting with the union home minister the next day. The delegation consisted of the CPI(M) state secretary Janardan Pati, its state secretariat members Santosh Das, Ali Kishore Patnaik and Bishnu Mohanty, and former MLA Laxman Munda. It was led by CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechury who is leader of the CPI(M) group in Rajya Sabha and by Basudeb Acharia, leader of the CPI(M) group in Lok Sabha.

More Stringent Law against Atrocities Demanded

AGARTALA, the capital of Tripura, witnessed a massive rally on December 3, 2013, organised by Tripura Tapashili Jati Samanway Samiti, as the organisation met the chief minister of the state to hand him over mass signatures for forward transmission to the prime minister. The organisation has been demanding more stringent legislation to prevent atrocities against dalits.

LDF Intensifies Stir with Cliff House Siege

THE opposition Left Democratic Front (LDF) has intensified its struggle to press for resignation of the Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy, tainted in the solar panel scam, with a massive siege of Cliff House, official residence of the chief minister at Thiruvananthapuram. This indefinite blockade of the CM’s official residence began on Monday, December 9, as thousands of LDF workers literally laid a siege of it. Hundreds of workers courted arrest.

Modi Represents RSS and Corporates: Karat

TERMING Narendra Modi as a representative of communal and corporate forces, CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat asserted that the Left parties will fight to thwart the attempt of BJP to come back to power.
Addressing a massive rally in Sahid Minar maidan organised by the Kolkata district Left Front on 06th December, the CPI(M) leader said the convention called by the Left and other regional parties recently in Delhi had decided to stop communal forces at any cost and unify secular and democratic forces.

The Snowden Effect: US Facing International Opprobrium

LATEST revelations emanating from the dossier compiled by the American whistleblower, Edward Snowden, have provided irrefutable proof that the Obama administration has been spying on friends and foes, on its own citizens and foreigners alike. The international community is now fully aware that the American security agencies, if they so wish, can decipher the political and social tendencies of millions of global citizens at a flick of a button.

CPI(M) Submits Memorandum On Amendments to SC/ST POA Act

THE CPI(M) delegation comprising K Varadarajan, Polit Bureau member of the CPI(M), Basudev Acharia, Central Committee member and leader of the CPI(M) group in Lok Sabha, V Srinivasa Rao, Central Secretariat member and G Mamatha, CPI(M) member met Selja, minister for social justice and empowerment, government of India on December 10, 2013 and submitted a memorandum urging the government to move the amendments to strengthen the Prevention of Atrocities Act and adopt them in this winter session of the parliament.

India Yields to Pressure at Bali

THE Indian media for which the WTO meeting at Bali was of no more than passing interest made out on December 7 that India had achieved a great victory at that meeting. Even The Hindu’s headline read: “India’s Stand Prevails at Bali”. The media were merely echoing the view of the Indian government whose commerce minister even took pride in the fact that it was the Indian draft that was put up for endorsement to the member countries. The truth regrettably is exactly the opposite.

On Assembly Election Results

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) issued the following statement on December 9, 2013.

THE Congress party has suffered a major defeat in the four state assembly elections. It has been routed in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi and lost in Chhattisgarh too.

Message of the Assembly Elections

THE elections to the five state assemblies have given a clear verdict. The unambiguous message is the outright rejection of the Congress in four states. Only the small state of Mizoram in the North East is an exception where the Congress retained its majority.

In Rajasthan and Delhi, where there were Congress governments, they have been routed in a manner never before. In Rajasthan, the Congress managed to get only 21 seats which is just over 10 per cent of the total seats. In Delhi, it has got an abysmal eight seats which translated into only 11 per cent of the total seats.

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