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Two Judgments Uphold Citizens’ Rights

TWO judgments delivered by two High Courts have forthrightly upheld the fundamental right of citizens to protest.  The Aurangabad Bench of the Bombay High Court set aside an order by the additional district magistrate against allowing protests in Beed against the CAA.  The Karnataka High Court, two days earlier, held that the prohibitory orders under section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) imposed by the Bengaluru police to prevent protests against the CAA were illegal.These are two significant judgments at a time when sections of the higher judiciary and even the Supreme Court ar

Budget 2020: How BJP Govt Destroyed Economy & Squeezed the People

IN the union budget presented before parliament on February 1, 2020, a vivid and shocking picture of how the Modi led BJP government has destroyed India’s economy emerges. It also reveals exactly how a rich man’s sarkar goes about brutally increasing the burden on people in order to continue handing out concessions to the corporate world and turning the whole country into a source of profit.DECODING THE DESTRUCTIVE SLOWDOWNDue to neglect, mismanagement and perversion of priorities, the BJP government created a slump in the Indian economy.

Capitalism, Socialism and Over-Production

THESE notes are meant to clarify a point made earlier (Peoples’ Democracy, June 30, 2018) about the erstwhile socialist economies not having over-production crises as capitalist economies do.It is in the nature of capitalism to have “over-production crises”, i.e., crises arising from “over-production” relative to demand. “Over-production” does not mean that more and more goods keep getting produced relative to demand, so that unsold stocks keep piling up.

TRIPURA: Huge Rally of GMP: A Clear Warning to BJP

THE hills came down to Agartala on Saturday, February 8, as thousands of tribal people hit the streets of state capital at the call of Tripura Rajya Upajati Ganamukti Parishad (GMP).  The rally was held as a prelude to the upcoming central conference of GMP and to press its 18-point charter of demands.  The demands included immediate repealing of CAA, withdrawal of NPR and NRC,  inclusion of Kokborok in the 8th schedule of the constitution, more power to the TTAADC and reestablishment of peace and democratic atmosphere in the state.The rally started from Rabindra Bhavan at 11 am.

The Week in Parliament

THE budget session of parliament began on January 31 with Ram Nath Kovind’s address to the joint sitting of both houses. On February 1, the union budget 2020-21 was presented by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman. In the budget speech, one would hardly get any indication of either the economic slowdown or the unemployment rate, which is the highest in decades.

‘Let Kashmir be declared an open jail…’: Tarigami

THESE were the painful words of Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, said in a press conference on February 12, 2020 at Delhi. Sitaram Yechury, general secretary of CPI(M) started the press conference.Yechury in the beginning congratulated the people of Delhi for giving a resounding defeat to the politics of hatred and division led by the BJP. Speaking on the present situation in Jammu and Kashmir, he said that six months have passed by since the abrogation of Article 370 and the state has been very badly hit on various fronts.

Transparency with Public Engagement on the Central Vista Reconstruction

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on February 9THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) calls upon the  BJP government to lift  the veil from the proposed project of redevelopment of the Central Vista in Delhi. Apart from the citizens, it is the parliament that will get most affected. It is therefore imperative that the government must discuss the details of the project in the current ongoing budget session of the parliament.

Chattisgarh: CPI(M) participates in Human Chain

THE CPI(M) participated in the Human Chain in different parts of the state along with other mass organisations and Left Parties and took oath on secularism and on protecting the Constitution of India. The call was observed on January 30th. In Raipur, the capital of Chattisgarh, Sanjay Parate addressed the meeting after the Human Chain. He said the CAA is a divisive law that divides the country on the basis of religion and goes against the basic tenets of our constitution. He appealed to the people that the NPR questionnaire should not be answered.

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