Fact Finding Report

AN AIPWA team enquired on 5-6 November 2019 into the oppression of interfaith couple from Dhamtari, Anjali Jain and Aryan Arya (Ibrahim Siddiqui). The enquiry team led by Dr Lakshmi Krishnan visited the One Stop Centre (Sakhi) Raipur, Women and Child Development Department Raipur, and also met the Raipur Collector and the victim’s husband. Although they were unable to meet the victim Anjali face to face, they succeeded in having a detailed telephonic conversation with her.

THE Right to Food Act and the much-hyped Ayushman Scheme have been reduced to a cruel joke for the poor, the latest example being Kushinagar District in Uttar Pradesh where the Musahar poor are suffering untimely deaths due to starvation, malnutrition and disease.

THE Sonbhadra massacre is a fallout of Yogi government’s continued protection being given to land mafia who are openly displacing poor adivasi peasants from their lands with impunity.

ALL India Central Council of Trade Unions has sharply criticized Delhi government for its continued laxity in matters of industrial safety which has taken lives of hundreds of workers during last few years. Recently another factory in Jhilmil Industrial Area met with a fire accident taking the lives of three more workers. The AICCTU has said that these factory fires have become a phenomenon of greedy factory owners who never care for the lives of the workers while the Delhi gov.

TWO girls disappeared from their hostel in Saraiya Kasturba Residential School in Shahpur of Bhojpur in Bihar. This has been accused that the girls have absconded after harassment and exploitation by the Hostel warden. The Shahpur BDO and thana in charge reached to the spot after the villagers informed this incident to them. Villagers who sheltered those girls for sometime have suspected that the girls were forcibly subjected to sexual exploitation which led to their disappearance.

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi recently boasted to Indian diaspora in Japan: “Recently India was able to tackle cyclone Fani and many other obstacles with minimal losses and was able to push them back aside. The world appreciated our damage control efforts; how we made use of government resources, human resources and space technology along with other things to perform efficiently.”

A State level CPI(ML) team led by Bihar State Secretary Comrade Kunal visited SKMCH at Muzaffarpur on 19 June 2019 and took stock of the situation. The team visited the children admitted in the PICU (Paediatric Intensive Care Unit) and the wards and spoke to the family members. It also met the Hospital Superintendent and the Paediatrics Department Head and discussed the subject of prevention of encephalopathy which has taken the form of an epidemic here. Earlier, a CPI(ML) team led by MLA Mahboob Alam also visited Muzaffarpur.

INCIDENTS of sexual violence against women and girl children are sharply on the increase under the Yogi government in Uttar Pradesh. Chief Minister Yogi talks of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (Save and Educate the Girl Child) but his police are seen clearly to be standing with the accused persons or tries to cover up such incidents.

A CPI(ML) District Committee enquiry team visited the home of martyred CPI Comrade Fago Tanti in Mahaji Tola, Ramdiri, Begusarai District. The team comprised District Secretary Comrade Diwakar, Comrade Chandradev Verma, Comrade Baiju Singh, Comrade Deepak Sinha and Comrade Rajesh Shrivastava, who met and spoke with members of the bereaved family.

Fago Tanti was a fearless and spirited leader. He was a landless worker. He was beaten to death by criminals associated with the ruling BJP because of political vendetta in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.

THE AIPF fact-finding team which enquired into the attack on Mohd Sajid’s family in Nayagaon (Gurgaon) has found that the attack was part of a campaign by communal forces, and not a clash between two teams.