ML Update

Mobs such as the ‘Rajput Karni Sena’, various BJP leaders, and BJP State Governments of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh are acting in tandem to suppress freedom of expression and prevent the screening of the Hindi feature film Padmavati. The mobs are claiming “insult” to the “honour” of Queen...

Karbi Anglong Hill Party Committee held its 8th Conference on 11-12 Nov. in Diphu. The conference rededicated itself to fight against communal and fascist forces, for an Autonomous State and an egalitarian society. The conferance adopted resolutions rejecting forces conspiring to transform HSDC in a ‘monolithic’ body. It was also...

An investigative journalist Sudeep Datta Bhowmik who recently did a story and exposed corruption in Tripura State Rifles 2nd Battalion was shot dead on 21 Nov. inside the Battalion headquarters. Bhowmik was a reporter of Syandan Patrika, a Tripura daily and a local TV news channel was reportedly called to...

In a shocking development the Supreme Court on 13 November dismissed the special leave petitions filed by two Pricol workers Manivannan and Ramamurthy. This is a case where the Madras High Court has held that the case is fabricated and that the timing of FIR is false; that the initial...

Villagers Protest Police-Criminal Nexus in Chhattisgarh Villagers of Kormi Panchayat organised a sit-in protest in Bilaspur on November 16 against the atrocities by the husband of the village sarpanch, Ajay Dhuri, who is the de facto sarpanch and the police. Villagers have been repeatedly opposing the corruption by the sarpanch...

Comrade Vikas Mahto Comrade Vikas Mahto who was recently elected as Secretary of CPI(ML) Jaipur City Committee in the party conference held on Oct 22 passed away on November 15. He was only 58. He had been ill for a few days, but the news of his passing came as...

(Translation of the song composed and sung by mid-day meal workers from East Champaran – Comrades Kumanti Devi, Shahida Khatoon and Sahana Khatoon – at the Workers’ Mahapadav (Dharna) at Parliament Street, 11 Nov 2017) Dawn has broken with red sun rays Why are you still sleeping with your sheet...

The students of Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University, Wardha organized a protest meeting in the third week of October against the disappearance of JNU student Najeeb and the burning of dalit homes in Khagariya district, Bihar. The protest was held at the main gate of the University and candles were...

Casteist feudal forces in Audihar village, Saidpur tehsil, Ghazipur district set fire to the hut of CPI(ML) activist Achhelal Banwasi in the Musahar Basti at around 2 o’clock at night on 15 September 2017. The intention was to kill Com Banwasi but when he escaped they fired on him, missing...

The minority community in Sikandarpur and Rahsarh (Ballia district, Uttar Pradesh) had asked for security during the festive season of Diwali and Muharram but the SP advised them to take care of their own security citing shortage of police security forces; this despite the fact that the area has been...

CPI(ML) Bihar State Secretary Kunal said on 10 November 2017 that for the third time the Bihar government has brought a ‘Krishi Road Map’, but as in the previous two road maps, this one also offers no solution for the problems of the farmers. This road map will cheat the...

The All India Students Association (AISA) took out a protest march at Allahabad University on 6 November 2017 against the arrest of Bhim Army founder Chandrashekhar after the one-sided action taken by the administration in the Saharanpur caste violence incident and his re-arrest under RSA despite the Allahabad High Court...

On 11 Nov, 2017 AISA held a sit-in demonstration at Dighalipukhuri, Guwahati against attack on democracy and demanded to make public the Nagalim framework agreement, and not to transfer land from Assam territory to the Nagaland, to withdraw the decision of handing over of oil fields in Assam to corporates...

The 5th phase of the Kisan Mukti Yatra organized by the All India Kisan Sangharsh Samanvay Samiti concluded at Muzaffarpur with leaders and participants of the Yatra paying floral tribute at the Shaheed Khudiram Bose statue, followed by a public meeting. The meeting was addressed by All India Kisan Mahasabha National...