Cronyism and Corruption: Hallmarks of Modi Model of Governance
The decision of the Empowered Experts Committee (EEC) set up by the Modi Government’s Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) to award the ‘Institute of Eminence’ tag to the as yet non-existent Jio Institute of Reliance Foundation has underscored the brazen cronyism that marks the Modi model of governance. ...
Read MoreCondemn the Undeclared Emergency in Tamil Nadu
CPI(ML) Leaders Arrested In Chennai For Releasing Booklet Explaining Issues Surrounding Chennai-Salem Expressway New Delhi, 17 July 2018 CPI(ML) Liberation Politburo Member and Tamil Nadu State Secretary Comrade Kumaraswamy and Central Committee Member Comrade Vidyasagar were arrested today along with 34 other activists for releasing a booklet titled ‘Chennai-Salem 8-Lane ...
Read MoreAttack on Swami Agnivesh By BJP Thugs in Jharkhand: Latest Instance of Mob Rule in Modi Raj
On the very day the Supreme Court has come down strongly on the Government of India and State Governments for allowing a veritable mob lynching epidemic in India, a mob of BJP Yuva Morcha thugs attacked the 80-year-old anti-communal and human rights campaigner Swami Agnivesh in Pakur in Jharkhand. This ...
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Bathani Tola Massacre: No Justice After 22 Years
22 years ago at 2 pm on 11 July 1996 in broad daylight 50-60 armed Ranveer Sena terrorists surrounded and attacked Bathani Tola, set fire to the homes of dalits, minorities, farmers and workers and killed 21 people, particularly targeting women and children. Not even girl children as young as ...
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Urban Poor and Dalits are Anathema to Modi’s Smart City Project
Urban poor and dalits are missing from Modi’s Smart City project map. They are being evicted and chased away. The BJP-JD(U) government is carrying out this drive throughout the State. The capital Patna is a prime target. The CPI(ML) is carrying out a drive to ‘Save the homes of the ...
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False Cases against Leaders of Movements in Bhojpur: Treachery by the Administration
After the successful movement of farmers for canal water for irrigation in Agiaon (Bhojpur) led by the CPI(ML) and All India Kisan Mahasabha the administration was forced to release water into the canal, but they have registered cases of road block and obstruction of government work against CPI(ML) leader Manoj ...
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Landless Poor Occupy Land in Jamui and Beguserai
During the past few days the CPI(ML) led a land occupation movement by the poor in Jamui and Begusarai districts. The Nitish government which had promised to give land and housing for the poor slapped false cases on CPI(ML) leaders and other protesters. The government which boasts of giving land ...
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CPI(ML) Team Visits Rape Victim’s Family in Rae Bareli
A four-member fact-finding team from the CPI(ML) visited Uttargaudi village in Lalganj (Rae Bareli) where a 11-year old girl was raped and murdered on 6 July. The team comprised of AIPWA State President Krishna Adhikari, CPI(ML) State Secretary member Ramesh Singh Sengar, and Afroz Alam of the Insaf Manch. The ...
Read MoreRamashray Prasad Singh
Ramashray Prasad Singh passed away on 16 June 2018 at his residence in Begusarai. He was 72. He was associated with the students’ movement of 1966-67 as one of the prominent leaders of SFI and with the onset of the decade of the 70s he became closely associated with the ...
Read MoreHow the BJP Facilitates and Felicitates Lynch Mobs
India has witnessed any number of riots and massacres since the colonial period, and also any number of mass killings and extra-judicial encounters by the armed forces of the state since the beginning of the post-colonial period, but the form of orchestrated mob violence that goes by the name of ...
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Jharkhand Bandh against Land Acquisition Amendment Bill
Jharkhand bandh called on 5 July 2018 at the united call of Left and opposition parties against the BJP government to demand withdrawal of the Land Acquisition Amendment Bill 2017 was historic with active participation of all adivasi people, Pathalgadhi movement adivasi communities, various democratic forces, and intellectuals. The spontaneous ...
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Farmers of Bhojpur Come Out in Protest for Canal Water
— Chandan Kumar June and July are crucial months in a farmer’s life. It is a time of hope. But farmers are greatly troubled this season due to adverse weather conditions. By now paddy saplings should be thriving and transplanting should have started. But the conditions are such that in ...
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Migrant Workers’ Sit-in at Coimbatore Collector’s Office Demanding Payment of Due Wages
Amman steel company of Coimbatore employed migrant workers from Odisha through a Contractor. About 50 of them are staying in shelters provided by the company. Both the Principal Employer and the Contractor failed to disperse their wages for the last 45 days. Aggrieved workers led by AICCTU marched straight into ...
Read MoreRozgar Mange India: Students Protest against Corruption in UP Police Exam
Students held a protest meeting at Ishwar Sharan Degree College Gate on 2 July demanding cancellation of the Uttar Pradesh Police Exam 2018. The UP Police Exam was conducted on 18-19 June 2018 and was rampant with irregularities and corruption. The same question paper which was given out in the ...
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Gangrape of Schoolgirl in Chhapra
A shocking case of gangrape of a schoolgirl in a private school in Chhapra, Bihar, by 18 people including the Principal, teachers and some students over a period of 6 months has come to light. The girl’s father was in prison and the facts were exposed only after the father ...
Read MoreStruggle of Retrenched Workers of L & T in Puducherry
On 9th July the 157 illegally retrenched workers of L&T Ltd., at Puducherry took out a massive rally along with their family members and children towards the legislative assembly demanding immediate reinstatement with all attendant benefits and continuity of service. The retrenched workers include even those who had put more ...
Read MoreEffigy Burnt of Cabinet Minister Jayant Sinha for Honouring Mob Lynching Criminals
The eleven mob-lynching accused who murdered Alimuddin Ansari on 29 June 2017 in Ramgarh of Jharkhand were convicted by the local court and sentenced to life imprisonment in March 2018. The High Court of Jharkhand, however, suspended the sentence on 30 June and took up the case released them on ...
Read MoreNemai Ghosh: A Legend of Naxalite Movement
— Asok Chattopadhyay In the midst of the dark times our country is facing now, we just lost Nemai Ghosh, the octogenarian young man with the evergreen spirit of revolutionary zeal. Comrade Nemai Ghosh was born on August 30, 1935 at Bagnan of Howrah District under the undivided Bengal. His ...
Read MoreEmergency: Then and Now
The Emergency proclaimed 43 years ago and lifted after 21 months was remembered widely this year by the Modi government. Through advertisements, speeches, press conferences and social media comments, Narendra Modi and his colleagues in the government and party invoked the horror of the Emergency with such focus and urgency ...
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Anti-Emergency Day : People’s Convention in Lucknow Against Modi-Yogi Governments
The CPI(ML) organized a Jawab Do (We Demand Answers) People’s Convention in Lucknow on 26 June (Emergency Day) under the Party’s ‘Modi-Yogi Sarkar Jawab Do’ campaign. Earlier, a rally in Varanasi and 2 zone-level dharnas in Gorakhpur had been organized on 20 and 22 June respectively. The main speaker at ...
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