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Party's Seven-Member Team Visits Violence-Hit Maharajganj in UP, Calls for Independent Investigation

Amid heavy rains on the afternoon of Tuesday, 22nd October, 2024, eight migrant workers and one sub-contractor were crushed to death when a seven-story building under construction collapsed in Babusapalya, Horamavu, in the Hennur police station jurisdiction, Bengaluru. The eight deceased workers have been identified as: Shri. Mahmed Arman, Shri. Mahmed Arshad, Shri. Tirupali, Shri. Solo Pashwan, Shri. Pulchand Yadav, Shri. Tulasi Reddy, Shri. Gajendra and Shri. Manikanthan Satya Raju. The sub-contractor, Shri.

Following pressure from CPIML MLC Shashi Yadav and AICCTU leader Ranjivay Kumar, the company and administration responsible for the Patna Metro project have agreed to hold talks with the aggrieved workers after a tragic accident at the metro construction site on October 29.

A four-member CPIML fact-finding team, led by party member Jeera Bharti from the All India Agricultural and Rural Labour Association (AIARLA), visited Dhauha village in the Chunar police station area of Mirzapur on Saturday, October 26. The team met with the family of Ram Achal, a Dalit man who was brutally murdered over a land dispute.

On October 24, thousands of women from across Uttar Pradesh took to the streets of Lucknow to protest the increasing violence against women and the Yogi government’s “bulldozer politics.” The state-wide demonstration, organized by the All India Progressive Women’s Association (AIPWA), faced several police attempts to halt the march. However, the determined protesters pressed on, ultimately holding a rally at the KKC intersection, just a short distance from the state assembly.

Ladakh, nested high in the freezing Himalayas, has been facing a lot of heat for a while. The people of Ladakh are fighting an uphill battle to save their identity and their culture, and to protect the delicate ecology of this region from tourists and resource-sharks.

Dozens of people are killed in Siwan, Saran and Gopalganj districts in another illicit liquor tragedy in Bihar which has been an open field for illegal liquor trade since this has been declared a prohibition state. Illicit liquor smugglers are protected by the ruling nexus is evident by the fact that not a single big smuggler has been caught by the police after many years of prohibition, while lakhs of poor are languishing in jails.

Contractual workers of Jawaharlal Nehru University, LHMC, RACKON and RML Hospitals and Municipal Corporation of Delhi protested at the office of Chief Labour Commissioner at Dwarka on 22nd October, demanding rightful bonus that amounts to one month's salary of each worker as per the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965.

A CPIML high level delegation comprised of Bihar MLA and AIARLA national president Satyadev Ram, UP party secretary Sudhakar Yadav and central committee member Shriram Chaudhary met the district magistrate of Sitapur to lodge their objections against the victimisation and Zilla-badar (externment) notice issued to party’s Sitapur secretary and Zilla Parishad sitting member comrade Arjun Lal.

A delegation of CPIML leaders including MLAs Satyadev Ram, Mahanand Singh and Gopal Ravidas and MLC Shashi Yadav met with the Governor of Bihar to apprise him of Jeevika workers' demands. They submitted a ten-point memorandum.