ML Update

The BJP and Sanghi goons have employed a deliberate strategy to create communal tension in Arwal in October during the festive season. The attitude of the administration has also been very negligent, resulting in the worsening of the situation and the imposition of Section 144. To deal with the situation...

The 6th Kuber Dutt Memorial lecture was held at Rajendra Bhavan in Delhi on 7 October 2017 on the topic ‘Encephalitis, Children’s Deaths and a Failed Health System’. Delivering the lecture, Jan Sanskriti Manch General Secretary Com. Manoj Kumar Singh said that the recent death of 53 children in 4...

The deepening crisis of the Indian economy has begun to generate considerable discontent even within the core social base and thinking sections of the BJP. Two former finance ministers of the Vajpayee government – Arun Shourie and Yashwant Sinha – and an aspiring claimant for the finance minister’s position –...

A joint Left People’s Convention was organized in Ranchi on 23 September 2017 against communal violence, amendments to the land acquisition Bill, and child-killer health policies. The Convention began with a minute’s silence in memory of Gauri Lankesh and Shantanu Bhowmik, victims of communal violence, farmers killed by anti-farmer policies...

The CPI(ML) burnt the effigy of the Modi government on 17 September 2017 at Lalkuan in Uttarakhand to protest against spiraling petrol and diesel prices. Addressing the meeting, Party District Secretary Kailash Pandey said that the previous UPA government had abdicated its responsibility by giving the right to determine petrol...

AISA took out a protest march in Muzaffarpur against the skyrocketing petrol and diesel prices under the Modi government and burnt the effigy of PM Modi at Kalyani Chowk. Slogans were raised during the march demanding answers from Modi on the high petrol-diesel prices, and against the Company Raj under...

Eleven families are cultivating 25 acres of land in Revenue Village M.K. Patanam in Vishakapatanam district. In 2003 a domineering Congress party leader who had also contested for MLA seat earlier, filed an injunction case – O.S. No. 362 / 2003 against these tribal families in order to capture their...

The CPI(ML) organized a cadre convention in Patan, Palamu district to prepare for people’s movements on the following issues: rampant corruption and irregularities in the Public Distribution System; failure to provide regular work for MNREGA workers; non-payment of wages to workers; departmental corruption; and land related issues. The convention at the Patan...

A Sankalp Sabha was organized at Jamua, Giridih district, on 29 September 2017 on the occasion of the 8th death anniversary of CPI(ML) leader and CCM Com Ibnul Hasan Basru. The Sankalp Sabha was attended by a large number of people and addressed by comrades Manoj Bhakt, Rajesh Yadav, Puran Mahto...

RAJASTHAN A symposium on the relevance of Bhagat Singh’s ideas in the present times was organized on the occasion of the 110th birth anniversary of Bhagat Singh at Udaipur in Rajasthan by the ‘Loktantrik Adhikar Aur Sadbhavana Manch’. It was presided over by Com. Abid Adeeb and conducted by Com Rajesh...

AISA organized a protest march culminating in a Nukkad Sabha on 26 September in Daltonganj to protest against the lathicharge on students in BHU who were demanding gender justice. Condemning the sexual harassment of female students and also the violence unleashed on students for demanding justice, the protestors raised slogans...

The All India Contract and Unorganized Workers’ Association took out a rally on 22 September 2017 in Durg to mark the All India Demand Day, and submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister and Labour Minister via the Collector, Durg. The memorandum demanded resolution of the problems faced by the...

On 28 September, the martyrdom anniversary of Shankar Guha Niyogi, the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha took out a rally in Durg. AICCTU leaders Radhakant Sethi, Bhimrao Bagde and Brijendra Tiwari attended and addressed the rally. The rally also paid tribute to the memory of Bhagat Singh on his birth anniversary. A...

A protest was organized on 20 September 2017 at Ambedkar Chowk, Bhilai against banning of the Kisan Sankalp Yatra which was to have started from Rajnandgaon on 19 September, the arrest of farmers, and the imposition of Section 144. This Yatra going through all major parts of the country is...

AICCTU Korba organized a workers’ conference on 27 September. The conference opposed and condemned the anti-worker and anti-people policies of the Modi and Raman governments. AICCTU National Secretary Com.  Brijendra Tiwari was the main speaker. A 15-member district convening committee was formed with Com. BL Netam as the convener. The...

The Nagari Nikaay Janwadi Safai Kaamgar Sangh affiliated to AICCTU organized a protest in Bhilai on 17 September 2017 against the hypocritical ‘honouring’ of 200 sanitation workers on Modi’s birthday. The speakers at the protest meeting said that the BJP talks of honouring sanitation workers on the one hand, but...

AICCTU organized a protest at the Main Gate of the Bhilai Steel Plant on the issue of annual bonus, demanding Rs 20,000 and Rs 10,000 as bonus for regular and contract workers respectively. AICCTU and Ispat Shramik Manch participated in the meeting which was addressed by SL Sahu, Ashok Miri...

The people belonging to the Dom community have been residing besides the road in Bagain in Brahmpur block of Buxar district for several years now. These people have been associated with CPI(ML) since very long. On 14 September, in the name of removing encroachment, massive police force and the administration...

The CPI(ML) held its 2nd Punjab State Conference in Batala of Gurdaspur district on 27-28 September 2017. The conference was dedicated to Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh whose 110th birth anniversary was observed on 28 Sept. and great revolutionary cultural activist and theatre personality Comrade Gurusharan Singh, whose 6th death anniversary was...