ML Update

In continuation with the ongoing campaign demanding the right to education, Revolutionary Youth Association (RYA) and the All India Students’ Association (AISA) held open schools on the streets of Bhojpur in Bihar. The main demands of this movement have been provision of adequate infrastructure, adequate number of trained teachers and...

Murderous attacks on Muslims by Hindutva mobs in the name of ‘cow protection’ – or other pretexts – have become grimly ‘normal’ in the past three years of Modi rule. A spate of statements by leaders of the BJP Government as well as a series of measures by BJP-led Governments...

Com. Prayag Vishwakarma Comrade Prayag Vishwakarma breathed his last at 12.30 in the night of 18 April at the age of 50. Com Prayag joined the Party after his matriculation in 1983 and started participating in local struggles. Due to his involvement in anti-feudal peasant struggle he had about half...

The Fishermen of Seethanagaram village in Thadepalli Mandal of Guntur district are agitating against the government’s decision to force them to vacate the shore where they have been halting their boats for several years. They started their protest on April 18 and their agitation is being supported by the CPI...

The CPI (ML) held a dharna at the Gumla Block HQ on 15 April 2017 on a 10-point charter of demands including roll back of amendments to the CNT-SPT Act and ending the rampant corruption at Panchayat and Block levels. Addressing the dharna District Secretary Gajendra Singh said that the...

False cases have been registered against 12 named persons (many of them women) and 100 unnamed persons because they were protesting in front of the Collectorate for minimum wages and against corruption in the Education Department under the joint banners of Rasoiya-Sanyojika Sangh, Jalsahiya Jila Samiti, Home Guard Sangh, AIPWA...

The CPI (ML) organized a march at Kisko Block headquarters in Lohardaga district on 29 March 2017 with a 9- point charter of demands. The march culminated as a dharna. The following demands were made through the dharna: strict implementation of safety rules in the Hindalco mines; legal action against...

A Nukkad meeting was organized at Khairachatar under the banner of the Jharkhand Gramin Mazdoor Sabha to focus on the need to strengthen people’s power and defeat the criminal-politician-police. Recently a girl was raped in Harnad village in Kasmar block. When the matter gained prominence, the rapist was arrested but...

Left parties staged a joint dharna in front of the Bhagalpur District headquarters against the cancellation of poor people’s ration cards and the rampant loot and corruption in the distribution of ration and kerosene. CPI (ML), CPI, and SUCI (C) activists participated in the dharna presided over by Comrades Mukesh...

A district level organising team of All India Kissan Maha Sabha (AIKMS) constituted in Villupuram decided to undertake a district wide propaganda campaign centring around peasants’ demands. As acute crisis engulfs the entire peasantry, several cases of suicides and shock deaths have also been reported in the district. There is...

The 48th foundation day of CPI (ML) was observed on April 22 across states. The call issued by the Central Committee of the party was read out by comrades in various programmes. HARYANA: CPI (ML) activists organized a workshop on this occasion at the Karnal with a call to defeat...

The CPI (ML) had called for a campaign from 23 March (Bhagat Singh’s martyrdom day) to 14 April (Ambedkar Jayanti) against the increasing dangers of communal fascism, widespread attacks on dalits and minorities, exclusion of the poor and marginalized from the fields of education and employment, suppression of dissent and...

The martyrdom day of labour leader and one of the founders of the CPI (ML) in Chhattisgarh Com Darasram Sahu was observed in Lal Khadan (Bilaspur district) on 6 May 2017. A meeting was held which began with flag hoisting, garlanding of Com Darasram’s statue and 2 minutes’ silence in...

Com Jagdish Sharma was a popular Party leader from Palamu and an active and influential trade union leader in Bagodar (Giridih district). On 4 May 2000 criminal mafia goons murdered him in Palamu. Com Jagdish Sharma was a leading warrior in the anti-feudal farmers’ struggle in Palamu block. Even before...

Recently two workers in the Patna Municipal Corporation, Jitendra Paswan and Deepak Choudhury, were suffocated to death while they had gone inside a manhole to clean it. It is well known that the Municipal Corporation does not provide adequate safety equipment to sanitation workers for cleaning inside manholes, and all...

A dharna-satyagraha was organized in front of the Lohardaga Block HQ in Jharkhand on 5 May 2017. The BDO gave the assurance of fulfilling the demands at his level and said that he would forward the demands which required to be handled at a higher level. The demands included the...

The CPI (ML) protested on 19 April 2017 in front of the IGP Bhagalpur against brutal repression of leaders of democratic movements and dalits, adivasis and poor in the name of quelling Maoism in Jamui district. Thousands of poor, adivasis, dalits and ML activists took out a rally from the...

2017 is the centenary year of the Champaran Satyagraha which formed the beginning of the organized peasants’ movement in Bihar. On this historic occasion, the CPI (ML), All India Kisan Mahasabha and AIARLA jointly held a Land Rights Satyagraha on 5 and 6 May in Rupouli block of Purnea district...