ML Update

The village of Koriyaba in the Jaynagar block of Koderma district in Jharkhand has seen a spirited protest since 30 May 2017, against the construction of a flyash pond by the Banjhedih Thermal Power Plant. The villagers in this area have been opposing the proposed flyash pond for a long...

Emboldened by the growing assertion of feudal forces in Uttar Pradesh with the appointment of Yogi Adityanath as chief minister, incidents of feudal violence are on the rise in Jharkhand too. On 10 May, there was a small altercation happened between a Dalit boy (from the Paswan caste) and a...

The CPI(ML) condemns the government of Madhya Pradesh for killing five agitating farmers and injuring many in Mandsaur district on 6 June 2017. The farmers are agitating in all parts of the country and they are on a historical strike in MP and Maharashtra for the last one week demanding...

The CBI raid on the NDTV offices and home of the promoters, without even a preliminary enquiry, smacks of a vindictive attempt to intimidate the media. It is reminiscent of the midnight knocks of the Emergency. The CPIML condemns such attempts by the Central Government to single out and punish...

Left parties organized a protest sit-in at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on 5 June 2017, after one month of inaction in booking the perpetrators of atrocities on dalits in Saharanpur. The parties condemned the Yogi government in UP for its complicity in protecting the upper caste attackers and submitted...

Protesting the BJP government’s anti-people restrictions on cattle trade and on people’s right to choose food of their will and choice, CPI(ML) along with several organizations (including SDPI, New Socialist Alternative, Anti-Imperialist Movement and Karnataka Tamil Makkal Iyakkam) held a demonstration in Bangalore Town Hall on 2 June 2017. Around...

An economy in deep crisis and a government on a rampage. Modern history will tell us that this dangerous combination often presaged a definitive eclipse of democracy in many countries. India 2017 is faced with precisely such an ominous juncture. The GDP growth rate, the statistic that is most often...

Comrade Girija Ram, from the Nawada village of the Sahar block in Bhojpur, Bihar, passed away on 5 May 2017 at the age of 70 years in the Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH). His lungs had stopped functioning. Before the special conference of the Party held in 1979, Comrade...

Marine Le Pen, candidate of the fascist right-wing National Front (FN), was soundly defeated in the recently held Presidential elections in France. This defeat of rabid racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia by the people of France has to be welcomed. In the second round of the Presidential elections, Le Pen received...

The 3rd Patna district conference of the All India Kisan Mahasabha (AIKM) was held in Patna on 14 May 2017 at the Bharatpura High School premises in Dulhin Bazaar. The venue was renamed after martyred Comrade Rajeshwar Mochi and the meeting hall was renamed after one of the founders of...

The 2nd Block-level conference of the Bihar Rasoiya Sangh (Midday Meal Workers’ Union) was held in Fatuha, highlighting the demands of recognition as government employees, following of the Supreme Court (SC) guidelines on equal pay for equal work and remuneration of Rs 18,000 per month. Inaugurating the conference, the union’s...

CPI(ML) held a protest candle march from the Ranchi Party headquarters to the Albert Ekka square in Ranchi against the custodial death of Vikas Lakda, demanding enquiry and action against the accused police officers. CPI(ML) demanded that an FIR be lodged based on the statement of Vikas Lakda’s wife Preeti...

A one-day Conference on workers’ rights was organized on 4 May at the IMA Hall in Patna under the banner of the Bihar State Contract-Honorarium Niyojit Sewakarmi Samyukt Morcha. The issues discussed in the Conference included the following: ending the modern-day slavery in the form of contact-honorarium-outsourced-incentive system; regularization of...

AICCTU and the Jugaad Drivers’ Union in Bhagalpur held a protest demonstration and satyagraha on 8 May 2017 against the stopping of permits and licenses for jugaad vehicles and against police harassment of drivers. Hundreds of drivers participated in this protest held at the Bhagalpur district Collectorate. AICCTU state secretary...

Women students of the Gurupat Primary Teachers’ Training College and the RKBS B.Ed. college in Garhwa, Jharkhand, held a protest march at the Garhwa district headquarters on 15 May 2017. Along with protesting against the cutting of funds for scholarships, the students raised several other demands. AISA leaders Divya Bharati...

On 19 May, CPI(ML) and AICCTU organized a massive Dharna in front of the Legislative assembly of Puducherry UT against the theanti labour attitude of the Congress government led by Chief Minister Narayanasamy. More than hundred CPI(ML) and AICCTU activists and workers participated in the Dharna. The main demands of...

The All India Kisan Mahasabha organized a dharna at the Raj Bhawan, Ranchi on 15 May 2017 in preparation for the 3rd AIKMS National Conference to be held on 9 and 10 June 2017 in Hazaribagh, for the rights of farmers, adivasis, dalits and Muslims over the ‘jal-jangal-jameen’ of Ranchi...