THE 12th CPI(ML) Nalanda District conference was held on 24-25 November 2018 at Comrade Karu Bind-Comrade Surendra Das Hall (Town Hall) in Comrade Mitranand Singh Nagar (Islampur). CPI(ML) senior leader Com. Hashim hoisted the flag and former Chairman of Central Control Commission of CPI(ML) Com. Ramjatan Sharma inaugurated the conference. After floral tributes and observing 2 minutes’ silence to pay tribute to martyred comrades, the open session began at the Comrade Ram Vilas Raut-Nawal Yadav Dais with revolutionary songs presented by the cultural team led by Com. Chandraketu Ravidas (Chaitanyaji).
Inaugurating the conference, Com. Ramjatan Sharma said that today the communal-fascist pro-corporate forces are calling for ‘Ayodhya Chalo’ and Ram temple construction because the Modi-led BJP government has done no work for the past 5 years. The BJP has betrayed the people of the country and has declared war on farmers, workers, students, youth, minorities, women, and dalits. But right at the same time, lakhs of farmers are giving the call for ‘Dilli Chalo’ and joining in the Kisan Mukti March on 29-30 November. A very welcome unity is being built among forces opposing the BJP. The fascist brigade is disobeying the Supreme Court orders to allow entry to women in the Sabarimala temple and destroying all Constitutional institutions one by one. We already have the examples of the CBI, CVC, and Election Commission before us. Here in Bihar, CM Nitish Kumar says that he never compromises with corruption, communalism and crime, but recent events have proved that communal disturbance, corruption, and crime have increased in an unprecedented manner under the JD(U)-BJP rule. Nitish Kumar’s 7-point schemes and social reform agenda are meaningless unless accompanied by land reforms, and dalit and women empowerment. In the coming elections, the people of Bihar will wipe out the BJP and JD(U) just as they had wiped out the Congress in the 1977 elections.
CC member and AIPWA State Secretary Shashi Yadav said that today the people are asking for the Modi government to account for the ‘jumlas’ of the past 5 years, but as the government is unable account for its failures, the BJP is diverting the people’s attention from the real issues. Those who disagree with the Sangh-BJP ideology are being called anti-national and Urban Naxal and oppressed and tortured. In the BJP regime, protecting rapists has become ‘nationalism’ and following the ideology of Bhagat Singh and Ambedkar is ‘anti-national’. To perpetrate violence against minorities and women is to protect our great and sacred culture, and to speak of their rights is ‘anti-national’. Nitish Kumar’s ‘sushasan’ (good governance) has been thoroughly exposed in Bihar by the Megha scam, the Srijan scam, and the Muzaffarpur shelter home horror. The Nitish government stands in the dock on the issue of protecting the accused in the Muzaffarpur Girls’ Home. Shashi Yadav said that the voices against injustice are steadily growing louder. She called upon the people to make the countrywide workers’ strike against the Modi government’s anti-worker policies a resounding success and to throw out this anti-people government in the coming elections.
Insaf Manch Nalanda convener Sarfaraz Khan said that the signs of Nitish Kumar’s re-alliance with the BJP were seen a week earlier on 17 July when the anti-mob lynching peace march organized by the Insaf Manch in Biharsharif was brutally repressed, false cases were slapped on hundreds of people, and 38 were thrown into jail. Today Nitish stands with the perpetrators of the Gujarat carnage, the killers of innocents in fake encounters, and the inciters of mob lynching who are intent on burying secularism and handing over the country’s resources to national and international corporate houses. Therefore, secularism and justice need to be important issues in the coming elections. The inaugural session was also addressed by Biharsharif Nagar Nigam Kamgaar Union Secretary Manoj Das. Earlier, the guests at the inaugural session were welcomed by former labour leader Comrade Shashi Bhushan Kumar.
The delegates’ session started at 4 pm in the presence of observer Com. Rambali Yadav and was conducted by a 5-member Presidium. Com. Surendra Ram presented the work report on behalf of the outgoing committee. A 21-member District committee was elected. The new committee unanimously elected Com. Surendra Ram as the District Secretary, after which a 11-point political resolution proposed by Com. Manmohan was passed by the conference.
