Beware of Caste Polarisation: CPI(M)

THE Haryana state secretariat of the CPI(M) has appealed to all sections of the people to remain vigilant against the attempts of certain political forces to create caste polarisation for electoral gains in the coming Lok Sabha polls by using the issue of reservations. In a press release issued from Rohtak on March 14, the party’s state secretary, Inderjit Singh, said the Congress party was destroying the jobs and admission opportunities through its policies of privatisation on the one hand while it was seeking to take credit for reservation to a particular caste on the other hand.

CPI(M) Poll Campaign to Focus on People’s Issues

THE Haryana state unit of the CPI(M) has decided to focus its election campaign in the state on the livelihood issues of the people for which the party and the mass fronts, led by the party leaders, have been fighting tirelessly round the year. Stating this decision on March 8, CPI(M) Central Secretariat member Nilotpal Basu emphasised that the toiling people had very high stakes in the outcome of the forthcoming parliament elections. He said that the game of defections was at its worst and there was hardly anything to choose between the Congress and the BJP.

HARYANA: 72 Hours Strike Gets Wide Support

AT the call of the Employees Coordination Committee, the state government employees of Haryana staged a successful 72 hours long, state-wide strike from January 21 to 23, in spite of all types of conspiracy by the state government. Lakhs of employees of the government and semi-government bodies, boards, corporations, universities and municipal bodies as well as workers of the schemes run by the central government took part in the strike that paralysed all work in Haryana.

HARYANA: Rally Appeals People for Policy Alternative

THE toiling masses of Haryana and the country have to strengthen the red flag to strengthen their position in politics, and this is also important for raising our issues in parliament for which we have been fighting in the streets everyday. This was the idea conveyed by several speakers who addressed the Vikalpa (Alternative) Rally organised on February 23, in Hissar. Attended by thousands of Haryana people, the rally was organised by the Communist party of India (Marxist) and the Communist party of India jointly.

CITU Demands Rs 15,000 Minimum Wage

ON February 3, 2014, the CITU’s Haryana state president Surender Singh Malik, who is also a member of the Haryana State Minimum Wages Advisory Board, raised in the board’s meeting the demand that the minimum wage must be at least Rs 15,000 in Haryana. The Advisory Board’s meeting was called by the principal secretary of the Department of Labour and Employment of the state government, who is also chairman of the said board, in Chandigrah.

Left to Hold Vikalp Rally, Feb 23

IT is only the Left parties which have a genuine interest in fighting for the livelihood issues facing the toiling peasants and are striving hard for the right to social justice for the socially marginalised sections. So said Inderjit Singh, secretary of the CPI(M)’s Haryana state, while addressing a well attended meeting of party workers of the Ratia assembly segment in Fatehabad district of the state on January 25.

Workers Agitate All Over Haryana

ON January 12, 2014, workers and helpers of the child rearing centres as well as tailoring teachers from all over Haryana staged a militant demonstration in Rohtak city and sent a memorandum to the chief minister, B S Hooda, about their grievances.

CPI(M) Launches Election Campaign

THE CPI(M) has formally launched its election campaign with alternative policies as the main theme for mobilising the toiling masses and socially marginalised sections in the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls. Both Left parties have already announced to contest four constituencies viz CPI from Karnal and Ambala while CPI(M) from Sirsa and Hisar.

Haryana ASHA Workers Protest Illtreatment

ON November 30, 2013, thousands of ASHA workers from all over the state of Haryana organised a rally in Rohtak and marched towards the chief minister’s residence. They came with the banner of the ASHA Workers Union Haryana, which is affiliated to the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU). They were protesting against the injustice and second rate treatment meted out to them by the chief minister in Gohana rally on November 10, 2013.

Political Morality Declining Unabated

THE Haryana state unit of the CPI(M) has expressed astonishment whether, with the current speed of legislators and ministers of Haryana being chargesheeted and sent to jail, the next assembly session would have to be convened inside jail premises. Issued from Rohtak on November 15, a press release of the party after a meeting at the state centre said that six legislators were already in jail and half a dozen more were facing criminal charges.

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