Rajasthan: Left Parties Demand Stern Action

A DELEGATION comprising of Sumitra Chopra from CPI(M), Rahul Chaudhary from (CPIML), former MLA Pawan Duggal and other leaders of mass organisations like the DSMM and AIDWA visited village Lalabari in Thanagaji in Alwar district. The delegation met the victim of gang rape and her husband who narrated the gory incident of rape by a gang of the region. This gang has ample support of the local police. This gang is also involved in incidents of rioting and loot.

Uttarakhand: Untouchability Claims Life of a Dalit Youth

THE state of Uttarakhand is supposedly believed to be calm, without any social and political prejudices. It is also termed as Dev Bhoomi(land of deities). However, the reality is far away from that. The manifestation of social exclusion and differentiation in Uttarakhand is one of the worst forms in comparison to other states.Recently untouchability, which is a crime according to the law, claimed one life in Jaunpur block of Tehri district. Jitender Das, a dalit youth from Basan village was attacked in a marriage party as he dared to sit on a chair along with other upper caste people.

KERALA: CPI(M) State Secretariat on Election Results

The following is the statement issued by the Kerala State Secretariat of CPI(M) on May 25THE defeat in Lok Sabha elections in Kerala is a temporary setback for the Left. Party committees from state committee to booth level committees will review this in detail and will find out the reasons and the lapses.

Protest Rally in Agartala against Vandalisation of Vidyasagar's Statue in Kolkata

The Election Verdict

THE 17th Lok Sabha elections have resulted in the BJP and the NDA getting a decisive majority and the return of the Modi government to power. The BJP has won an increased majority and the NDA has increased its overall tally.It seems that the BJP’s campaign projecting Modi as a strong leader and its communally tinged nationalism making use of the post-Pulwama situation and the Balakot strike have succeeded in overcoming the real problems faced by the people under Modi rule – agrarian crisis, unemployment, deteriorating education and health facilities and continuous attacks on minorities, w

The Gathering Storm Clouds of Recession

THE Index of Industrial Production has for the first time since June 2013 contracted in absolute terms by 0.1 per cent in March 2019 compared to a year ago. This comes on top of a mere 0.07 per cent increase in February, a 1.7 per cent increase in January, a 2.6 per cent increase in December, and a 0.3 per cent increase in November.

TELANGANA: Comrade Sundarayya’s Death Anniversary Observed

ON May 19, the 34th death anniversary of Comrade P Sundarayya was observed in Sundarayya Vignana Kendram (SVK) in Baghlingampalli and also at the new Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in Gachibowli. Glowing tributes were paid and the statue of Sundarayya was garlanded by Prof Ram Puniyani from IIT Mumbai and by many others present at the venue.Later, he spoke on the subject “defence of democracy and immediate duty today”. He said that Sundarayya was one of the founders and builders of communist movement in India.

Hold Free and Fair Elections in West Bengal

A CPI(M) delegation consisting of general secretary, Sitaram Yechury and Polit Bureau member Hannan Mollah met Sunil Arora, the Chief Election Commissioner, Election Commission of India, on May 18, and submitted a memorandum. We are reproducing the memorandum here:We are writing to you to express deep apprehensions over the polling due to be held tomorrow in West Bengal.Please find enclosed 10 letters addressed to the state authorities by CPI(M) candidate Fuad Halim in Diamond Harbour, Parliamentary Constituency(PC), CPI(M) South 24 district committee secretary, Samik Lahiri and election

Hold Repoll in Diamond Harbour

SITARAM Yechury, general secretary of the CPI(M) wrote a letter to Sunil Arora, CEC, Election Commission of India on May 21, on the irregularities in the polling for 21-Diamond Harbour, Parliamentary Constituency(PC) in West Bengal. Below we reproduce that letter:I am writing to you with regard to the reports of large-scale irregularities in the poll conducted on May 19, in 21-Diamond Harbour, Parliamentary Constituency in West Bengal. Enclosed (Annexure – 1) is a letter submitted by the CPI(M) candidate for the constituency, Fuad Halim to the Returning Officer, 21 Diamond Harbour PC, whi

Take Punitive Action for Lauding Gandhi’s Assassin

Hundreds of academicians, intellectuals, cultural activists and others have jointly issued the following statement on May 17WE are deeply shocked by the statement of Pragya Thakur, the BJP candidate for the Bhopal Lok Sabha seat, lauding Nathuram Godse, the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi, as a “desh bhakt”. This amounts to endorsing the murder of the Mahatma as an act of “desh bhakti” or patriotism. It is not enough for the BJP to distance itself from Thakur’s remarks, or to ask her to apologise.

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