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Tripura: No to Citizenship Amendment Bill

MANIK Sarkar, former chief minister of Tripura wrote to the union home minister regarding the invitation extended to him to attend a proposed meeting on November 29. While thanking the minister for the invite, Sarkar showed his inability to attend the meeting owing to pre scheduled programmes.However, he placed the view points of the Party through the letter. He strongly opposed the amendments proposed by the union home ministry to the Citizenship Act.

TAMIL NADU: People’s Struggle Compels Govt to Revoke Property Tax Hike

A YEAR-long, statewide struggle has compelled the Tamil Nadu government to revoke a steep hike in property tax implemented last year. The minister for municipal administration, S P Velumani, has announced that the existing property tax collection will be discontinued and the old rates levied before April 2018 will continue.Since the tax hike was announced last year, a series of protests have taken place across Tamil Nadu. The CPI(M) vehemently opposed the announcement. The Party insisted that the steep hike should be withdrawn.

CPI(M) Releases Booklet on 100 Years of Formation of communist Party in India

“THERE is a commonality between the British rulers and the present Sangh Parivar ruling dispensation; both were/are inherently anti-communists and cannot digest their(communist’s) presence,” thus spoke Sitaram Yechury,  while placing the first booklet on the hundred years of the formation of the Communist Party in India. Brinda Karat, Polit Bureau member of the CPI(M) was also present in the press conference, which was held on December 4 at Delhi.

TSRTC Employees’ 52-day Strike Ends

K Chandrasekhara Rao, chief minister of Telangana, after holding a cabinet meeting on November 28, gave orders to TSRTC management to allow all its workers, who called off a 52-day strike, to join duty from the morning of November 29.  Earlier, he did not respond to the strike call off by RTC JAC causing distress to the workers and their families for three days. On November 30, he welcomed five employees from each depot and held talks with them directly. He cautioned them not to believe the union leaders and opposition leaders who he accused of misleading the workers.

TELANGANA: Outrage over Gang Rape-Murder of Woman Doctor

SEVEN years after Nirbhaya case which led to country wide outrage and condemnation, another such ghastly incident took place on the night of November 27, in the outskirts of Hyderabad, taking the nation by shock. A 26 year old woman veterinary doctor working in Kolluru village of Telangana was brutally gang raped and murdered by four youth. It has been reported that the woman was returning to her house in Nagarkurnool district at 9.30 pm that night when her two-wheeler tyre got punctured on the way at Shamshabad in the outskirts of Hyderabad.

Successful Struggle by NPRD

A PLANNED protest dharna by disabled persons turned into a victory rally when the government under pressure of the month-long countrywide campaign met most of the demands raised in the course of the campaign.The National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) had at its July executive committee meeting decided to conduct a countrywide campaign beginning November 1, 2019 protesting against the non-implementation of various provisions of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, which was passed on December 16, 2016.The campaign focused attention on the myriad problems with the iss

Tribals & Traditional Forest Dwellers Demand Upholding the FRA

ON November 21, on the nationwide call of the Bhumi Adhikar Andolon (land rights movement), thousands of  tribals and other traditional forest dwellers from across the country assembled at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar. This was the culmination of the campaign that was started by more than thirty organisations against the Supreme Court’s judgment of February 13, 2019, directing the forest department to evict all those whose claims under the FRA have been rejected.

Jharkhand: CPI(M) releases list of Party candidates

FOLLOWING are the candidates of CPI(M) for Jharkhand assembly elections .1. Subhash Munda                                          Hatiya2. Praful Linda                                                Khijri3. Vishvadev Singh Munda                            Silli4. Swapan Mahto                                            Behragoda5. Naresh Bharti                                              Chatra6. Mohammad Iqbal                                        Pakud7. Gopin Soren                                                Maheshpur8.

Ninth All India Conference of AIFAWH: Anganwadis Declare War against Hunger and Hatred

 THE ninth national conference of the All India Federation of Anganwadi Workers and Helpers (AIFAWH) has resolved to take up a campaign to free the nation from hatred and discrimination. The four-day conference was held in Rajamahendravaram (Rajahmundry), Andhra Pradesh and had concluded on November 20, 2019.

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