Appeal/Demand

Aligarh, 19 June 2024

The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) has called for an impartial and high-level investigation into the death of Aurangzeb, a young man from a minority community, due to mob lynching in Aligarh on Tuesday night. This incident, occurring under Chief Minister Yogi's administration and following the Lok Sabha elections, has raised significant concerns.

AICCTU, Delhi unit has called for immediate measures from the Government of NCT of Delhi including the Office of the LG and Chief Minister to protect the workers amidst the heat wave and rising incidents of factory fires in Delhi. In a recent incident, three workers were killed after a massive fire in Delhi’s Narela industrial area on June 8. According to reports, the workers were employed in a cramped-up food processing unit where they were forced to work in a 12-hour shift without any protection or safety measures.

Representatives of many political parties and organisations in Chhattisgarh have demanded judicial inquiry into the alleged encounter of 10 tribal villagers in Pedia village of Bijapur. The incident took place on 17 May where security forces claimed to have killed 12 Maoists in an encounter. The family members of ten villagers who were killed protested before the Bijapur district magistrate office saying their family members had gone to the forest to collect tendu leaves but they were killed by the forces in the fake encounter.

CPI(ML) Liberation filed a complaint with the Election Commission of India against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for gross violation of Section 123(3A) of RPA and Model Code of Conduct (MCC) and promoting enmity and hatred on grounds of religion.

For years we took India's Constitution and constitutionally mandated system of multiparty democracy and federal framework for granted. The build-up to the 2024 Elections tells us that we can no longer afford to do that. The Modi government is bent upon converting India into a one-party state. Two Chief Ministers including the sitting CM of Delhi have been arrested in the poll season and the CJI is being heckled for striking down the unconstitutional Electoral Bonds that had legalised corruption. 

The heinous incident of gangrape of a Spanish traveller and attack on her husband at Dumka in Jharkhand has ashamed the nation. Rati Rao, President and Mina Tiwai, General Secretary of All India Progressive Women’s Association (AIPWA) have demanded from the Jharkhand government speedy action and arrest of all remaining culprits. They said in a statement that it is a deplorable fact that our country has utterly failed in protecting women.

Stand with Prof. Sabyasachi Das!

We stand united in expressing our solidarity with Professor Sabyasachi Das who recently resigned from Ashoka University. Prof. Sabyasachi recently wrote a paper titled 'Democratic Backsliding in the World’s Largest Democracy' which hinted at BJP engaging in electoral manipulation in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, for which he came under criticism. Thereafter, expressing solidarity with Prof. Sabyasachi, Professor Pulapre Balakrishnan of Ashoka University has also resigned.

CPIML MLAs in Bihar have asked the state government to pass a resolution in the Assembly demanding to withdraw the GEAC approval and environmental clearance given to GM Mustard. Since this matter may soon be placed in the Parliament the party MLAs have asked the Chief Minister to adopt a resolution in the state assembly to send a clear message to the centre in view of the dangers associated with the GM crops and for the benefit of the country's farmers and people’s health.

The incessant rain in the North Indian states of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Punjab and Delhi has led to massive flooding and landslides. According to reports more than 100 people have lost their lives in the extreme rainfall that battered the region continuously for four days. Many houses have been destroyed in the landslides and several incidents of roads and bridges washed away have been reported. Thousands have been left homeless due to the disaster.

In a statement issued on March 25th, Clifton D' Rozario, Karnataka state secretary of CPIML has raised serious concerns regarding the decisions of the last cabinet meeting of the outgoing Basavaraj Bommai-led BJP government on March 24th. The decisions have progressed very much in line with the communal and caste politics that has come to define the BJP reign in Karnataka. Notable are the two decisions made, and the one decision not made.

Toxic mix of communalism and casteism: