Protest Demonstration

The BJP-JDU government in Bihar is ceaselessly speaking the language of repression. The police atrocity on Ward secretaries in Patna on 29 July are highly condemnable.

For the last 4 years the Bihar government has been conducting 'Nal-Jal' and 'Gali-Nali' scheme works through 1,14000 Ward secretaries but so far they have not been paid even a single rupee. Now that they are demanding payment for their work, they are brutally lathicharged. What kind of justice is this?

CPI (ML) Delhi organised a Protest Demonstration at Jantar Mantar on 26 July, questioning the role of the Union Government in the recent Pegasus expose. The specific demands raised in the Protest Demo were:

1. Instituting an independent inquiry into the recent Pegasus espionage scandal.
2. Immediate resignation of Home Minister Amit Shah.

In a joint call given by several left rural labour organizations including AIARLA and MNREGA Mazdur Sabha protests were held on 26th July on district and block offices and the effigies were burnt of Prime Minister to assert the demand of giving 3 months MNREGA wages to all MNREGA and other workers in the rural areas considering rural distress resulting from Covid pandemic. The protests were held in all the states with the following demands:

The continuous deaths in Bihar due to poisonous liquor are becoming a normal occurrence. Hardly any month goes by without such deaths but Nitish Kumar, who boasts about prohibition in Bihar, remains unmoved. We have said repeatedly that the illegal liquor business is flourishing in Bihar and yet the government is giving protection to this nexus. As a result, the series of poisonous liquor deaths continues unabated.