Book release, Sales and Reading Programmes throughout the Telugu States in 400 Centres61,000 Sold Out in One Day in AP and TelanganaONE lakh copies of Communist Manifesto were published in Telugu in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Left parties leaders and cadres mobiliSed people in a big way and observed the Red Books Day enthusiastically on February 21. Five Left publications Prajasakti, Nava Telangana, Visalandhra, Nava Chetana and Peacock Classics jointly published one lakh copies of the Manifesto in Telugu. The book includes ‘Communist Principles’  also.

ADDRESSING a state-level mass rally at Odisha’s state capital, Bhubaneswar on February 13, the CPI(M) general secretary, Sitaram Yechury called upon the people to rise in unison to defeat the trident attack of the Modi-Shah led BJP government through the CAA-NPR-NRC and save the constitution and the secular democratic Republic.

NEAR Sultanpur, in Uttar Pradesh state, is the site of a forgotten crackdown that took place nearly 44 years ago. Such struggles from the past have come to the present, asking people to unite and fight for their rights.Today, every page of the constitution is under attack. Institutions that are supposed to protect and strengthen democracy have once again started to crumble. The mass media is not silent but singing accolades to the government.

THE hills came down to Agartala on Saturday, February 8, as thousands of tribal people hit the streets of state capital at the call of Tripura Rajya Upajati Ganamukti Parishad (GMP).  The rally was held as a prelude to the upcoming central conference of GMP and to press its 18-point charter of demands.  The demands included immediate repealing of CAA, withdrawal of NPR and NRC,  inclusion of Kokborok in the 8th schedule of the constitution, more power to the TTAADC and reestablishment of peace and democratic atmosphere in the state.The rally started from Rabindra Bhavan at 11 am.

THE CPI(M) participated in the Human Chain in different parts of the state along with other mass organisations and Left Parties and took oath on secularism and on protecting the Constitution of India. The call was observed on January 30th. In Raipur, the capital of Chattisgarh, Sanjay Parate addressed the meeting after the Human Chain. He said the CAA is a divisive law that divides the country on the basis of religion and goes against the basic tenets of our constitution. He appealed to the people that the NPR questionnaire should not be answered.