On 1 November, the state unit of CPI(ML) released a 32-page booklet on the communal politics in western Uttar Pradesh at a programme organised at the UP Press Club in Lucknow. The UP state committee had set up a 3-member team consisting of CC member comrade Mohd. Salim, AIKM state President Jayprakash Narayan and UP state committee member Ramayan Ram – and this folder is the result of week-long investigation by this CPI(ML) team which went to various parts of western Uttar Pradesh. Titled ‘Pashchimi Uttar Pradesh: Sampradayik Fasiwad ki Nayi Prayogshaala – CPI(ML) Jaanch Dal ki Tathyakmak Padtal’, this booklet documents the manner in which innocuous differences and brawls between individuals were deliberately given a communal colour with a clear intention to polarise society. It also documents the role of the ruling SP government in failing to control the communal mobilisation and failing to take strong and timely action against the communal fascist forces.
