A joint anti-communalism convention organized by six left parties was successfully concluded in Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh. CPI, CPI(M), CPI(ML), RSP, SUCI(C) and Forward Bloc participated in the convention. People from Moradabad and nearby districts participated in huge numbers in the convention that was held in the local Panchayat hall.
In the resolutions passed during the convention, a key resolution was to take watchful and strict steps at the local government and administration level to stop the communal tensions being increasingly built in Uttar Pradesh and after identifying the elements responsible for this strict action against them must be taken. The convention condemned the wrong statement issued by the Prime Minister during his speech from Red Fort on 15 August regarding the total outstanding payments of the sugarcane farmers and demanded that the long pending payments of the sugarcane farmers by the sugar mills along with the interests be immediately paid. A resolution demanding that distribution of land, illegally captured and post ceiling to be distributed among the Dalits and other weaker sections of the society.
It was decided that left parities will jointly initiate struggles at local levels against the communal campaign being run in the state. The next in the series of these anti-communal conventions will held in Mathura on 10 September. A joint left rally has been called on 9 November.
