ON November 13, joint militant demonstrations and dharnas were organised in most of the district headquarters led jointly by the CPI(M), CPI and Mahagathbandhan partners of Bihar.Raising slogans against the anti-people, anti democratic and communal policies pursued by the central and state governments, the leaders and cadres of the platform in large numbers paraded the main thoroughfares in different districts and submitted the charter of demands, highlighting the failures of the government of the day on each and every front.  The 15 years misrule of the present regime has aggravated, the m

 TELANGANA State Road Transport Corporation workers have been on a historic strike since October 5 demanding solution to their long-pending demands, including merger of the corporation with the government, pay revision and recruitment to various posts. Instead of addressing the workers’ demands, Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, in a sudden and disastrous move, announced dismissal of 48,000-odd protesting employees, out of a total 49,190 workforce of the corporation. Even the High Court has refused to declare the strike as illegal.

A WORKSHOP on the problems of urban areas and tasks ahead was organised by CPI(M) Odisha state committee at Bhubanewar on Nov 10, 2019. Tikender Singh Panwar from all India centre attended the workshop and inaugurated it.  Jagganath Mishra, state secretariat member of the party presided over the meeting where, Suresh Panigrahi, state secretariat member placed the theme paper and future tasks on urban issues. Thirty eight Party leaders and activists working in the cities representing five districts and seven cities including state capital Bhubaneswar attended this workshop.

AN FIR on financial irregularities against Badal Chowdhury, former minister of PWD, government of Tripura along with two other top officials, Yash Paul Singh, the then chief secretary and Sunil Bhowmik, the then chief engineer, PWD(R&B), was lodged to the West Agartala Police station, on October 13, 2019. GIST OF THE COMPLAINTThe case in reference is regarding PWD tender bid in 2008.

THE National Statistical Office (NSO) has decided not to release the quinquennial survey data on consumer expenditure for 2017-18. This is because these data, leaked by The Business Standard (November15) show a drop of 3.7 per cent in real per capita consumer expenditure between 2011-12 and 2017-18, from Rs 1,501 per month to Rs 1,446 per month (at 2009-10 prices).An actual drop in per capita consumer expenditure is an extremely serious matter.