CPI(ML) organized statewide protests on September 25–26 across Uttar Pradesh, demanding action from the Chief Minister on urgent public issues. Party activists held marches, demonstrations, and public meetings in district and tehsil headquarters, submitting memorandums to the Chief Minister in each location.
The protests focused on stopping evictions of the poor from ancestral, government, village, patta, and forest lands; ending bulldozer-driven “instant justice”; providing land and housing to landless families; strict enforcement of the Forest Rights Act 2006; restoring rights over water, forests, and land to tribal communities; and cancelling all debts, including microfinance loans, while taking strict action against harassment for loan recovery. CPI(ML) also demanded that microfinance companies fully comply with RBI guidelines and provide interest-free loans through self-help groups.
Other key demands included halting electricity privatization, providing 200 units of free electricity to poor households, cancelling fake electricity bills, stopping the smart meter scheme, reversing the merger of primary schools that deprives poor children of education, ensuring easy availability of urea fertilizers to farmers, and protecting mosques and madrasas from demolition.
In Gorakhpur, prior to the protest on September 25, police detained CPI(ML) district secretary Comrade Rakesh Singh from his home late on September 24, along with attempts to prevent other party activists from joining the program. Despite this, hundreds of activists marched to the District Magistrate’s office, held a public meeting, and submitted a memorandum. The protest was led by State Committee members Comrades Rajesh Sahni and Manorama, and addressed by Comrade Rakesh Singh and Adv. Subhash Chandra Pal.
Similar protests and memorandum submissions took place across Deoria, Mau, Ghazipur, Azamgarh, Bhadohi, Faizabad (Ayodhya), Kushinagar, Chandauli, Jalaun, Prayagraj, Mirzapur, Sonbhadra, Banaras, Lucknow, and Maharajganj. Party leaders, including state and district secretaries, State Committee and Central Committee members, and representatives of affiliated organizations like Khet Mazdoor Sabha and AIPWA, addressed the gatherings.
The protests highlighted the people’s demands for land, housing, education, forest and tribal rights, debt relief, and protection of basic services, while demonstrating the determination of CPI(ML) activists to press for accountability and policy changes at the state level.
