The following is the text of the memorandum submitted to the Jharkhand chief minister Raghuwar Das on March 22, 2017 by Brinda Karat, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member and former MP, GK Bakshi, CPI(M) Central Committee member and Jharkhand state secretary, Prakash Viplavi, Sanjay Paswan, Praful Linda, Suphal Mahto, CPI(M) state secretariat members.THIS is to draw your attention to and request your intervention to bring justice in the case of  Majlum Ansari (32 years old ) and Imtiaz Khan (12 years old)  who were brutally beaten and hanged to death on March 18 in Balumath, Latehar.

THE ‘undeclared emergency’ by the Modi government and the onslaught of Hindu Right against Jawaharlal Nehru University have brought into focus the challenge of how to intensify the ideological campaign that is being waged against a democratic and progressive idea of India. Liberal and democratic public opinion has correctly highlighted the authoritarian nature of the fascistic government and the attack by the BJP on the character and autonomy of central university.

THE call to intensify struggle and take initiative in building up joint struggles on common issues in the states emerged out in the recently held central executive committee (CEC) meeting of the Adivasi Adhikar Rashtriya Manch (AARM).The organisation held its CEC meeting on February 10-11, 2016 in Delhi, attended by members from 13 states and representatives from the students, peasants and women’s organisations. ATTACK ON FOREST RIGHTS ACTThe meeting, while congratulating its members on successfully organising the national convention in Aug

IN its judgment of July 5, 2011, the Supreme Court wrote that the “State of Chhattisgarh shall take all appropriate measures to prevent the operation of any group, including but not limited to Salwa Judum and Koya Commandos, that in any manner or form seek to take law into private hands, act unconstitutionally or otherwise violate the human rights of any person”. This landmark Salwa Judum judgment was to form the basis of all further anti-naxalite and Maoist activities in the state.

THE Dalit Shoshan Mukti Manch and other dalits organisation and individuals have given a call for candle light procession and other action programmes all over the country on January 24 protesting against the death of a Ph.D. scholar Rohith Vemula of Hyderabad Central University. They have demanded the immediate removal of the suspension on the remaining four students and allowing them to continue in their hostels as usual, immediate removal of Prof P Appa Rao as vice chancellor, resignation of the two union ministers and a comprehensive compensation to the deceased family.