Left parties in Uttar Pradesh including Communist Party of India (Marxist),  Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (ML-Liberation), and Forward Bloc, jointly organised demonstrations at District Magistrate offices across all districts of the state on April 23, 2026, registering their protest against the tampering with service conditions of workers in Noida and surrounding areas, the violation of their rights, and the crushing of their movement.

It may be recalled that the movement launched by workers over their above-mentioned legitimate demands was brutally crushed by the Uttar Pradesh government. Worker leaders were arrested on a large-scale, while others were placed under house arrest. CITU leaders Comrade Gangeshwar Dutt Sharma and Comrade Bhuri Singh, along with their associates, were arrested and sent to jail. Comrade Shivnath Yadav, Comrade Devashish Bhattacharya, Comrade Yogesh, Comrade Rammurti Rai, and Comrade Satyapal were kept under house arrest, of whom some remained confined for weeks.

Not only this, young men and women associated with one group of workers were taken into custody illegally, in complete disregard of the laws. Various conspiracy charges are being levelled against them. They are repeatedly being taken on remand, branded as urban Naxals, and burdened with numerous cases. In the same sequence, raids were conducted at the office of writer-literary figures Katyayani and Satyam Verma in Lucknow, and Satyam Verma was kept in illegal custody for several days before being sent to jail under serious charges.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist), after its state committee meeting on April 15-16, convened a meeting of all Left parties at its state office in Lucknow on April 17. Present in the meeting were CPI(M) State Secretary Comrade Ravishankar Mishra, Central Committee member Comrade Hiralal Yadav, Members of the state secretariat, CITU State Secretary Comrade Premnath Rai, CPI State Secretary Comrade Arvind Raj Swaroop, secretariat member Ramchandra Saras, and Comrade Aarti of the Forward Bloc. CPI(ML) State secretariat member Comrade Ramesh Singh Sengar could not reach the meeting, but later reiterated his full support and commitment to the decisions.

In the meeting, a proposal of demands was placed by CPI(M), which was supported by all parties. In the April 23 movement, demonstrations were held in support of five major demands of the workers. These included ending discrimination against and repression of democratic movements run by mass organisations and political parties, immediately fulfilling the demands related to minimum wages and service conditions of workers in Noida and surrounding areas, releasing arrested leaders and activists, protecting the constitutional rights of political parties and organisations, and convening a meeting with all central trade unions regarding the Noida workers’ movement to find a permanent solution through dialogue.

Memorandums were submitted after demonstrations at more than 50 district headquarters. These included Meerut, Bulandshahr, Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur, Moradabad, Agra, Mathura, Kasganj, Jalaun, Etawah, Etah, Kanpur, Allahabad, Bhadohi, Varanasi, Chandauli, Sonbhadra, Mirzapur, Jaunpur, Sultanpur, Lucknow, Bareilly, Gonda, Kushinagar, Deoria, Faizabad, Ballia, Ghazipur, Mau, Siddharthnagar, etc.

The State Secretary, Central Committee members, and all secretariat comrades participated in and led the movement in one district or another. This time, the movement was carried out without prior notice and permission. Experience of previous joint movements had shown that participation used to be merely symbolic, but this time leaders of Left parties in all districts took the programme seriously. This was the first movement of the Left parties after the Jan Aakrosh Rally. Despite heavy pressure of agricultural work and the wedding season, public participation was immense. The release of leaders and the house arrests ended even before this report was written. The government also performed the formality of declaring minimum wages for skilled, semi-skilled, and unskilled workers, which is far below the demands raised by workers’ organisations.