On 15 September, CPI (ML) and Jharkhand Mazdoor Sabha organized protest meetings and dharnas in Bagodar, Sariya, Birni, Rajdhanwar, Tisri, Jamua and other blocks in Giridih to intensify the people’s movement against the Raghuvar Das government and to increase the pressure on the government. The key issues on which the programmes were organized were – i) to protest against the forced land grab from farmers in the interest of corporates and the loot of natural resources, ii) to ensure regular and adequate ration for the poor, iii) to ensure that gairmajrua land is handed over to the poor and there is no effort to deny the same under the pretext of ending wrongful settlement, iv) to ensure regular employment under MNREGA, and v) to bring all widows under the ambit of the state widows’ pension scheme. Slogans demanding house and land for all dalit families and ration for all poor families echoed in various blocks.
