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As part of country-wide protest day demanding justice for the farmers killed in the 2022 Lakhimpur Kheri massacre, protest demonstrations under the banner of AIKM in Motihari and Arwal districts of Bihar.  

The two day 9th National Conference of All India Progressive Women’s Association (AIPWA) was held in Delhi’s Surjeet Bhawan on September 30 to October 1, 2023. The conference witnessed participation of more than 500 delegates from across the country. 

Thousands of workers of Ranchi based Public Sector Undertaking, Heavy Engineering Corporation Limited (HEC) played a vital role in India’s Chandrayaan-3 and Aditya L-1 missions, and are today on the streets, with many forced to sell tea and newspapers for their livelihood.

Local committee conference of Bishnupur AICCTU was held on 24th September at Bishnupur Municipal Dormitory. The stage was named after Sushila Handi (sanitation workers leader of Bishnupur) and Seema Chakraborty (founder of women’s organisation in Bishnupur). The conference paid homage to the migrant workers killed in an accident in Mizoram and paid tribute to all martyrs and departed comrades.

CPIML activists held a protest demonstration at Lalkuan in Uttarakhand on 25 Sept. against hateful and Islamophobic remarks made by BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri inside the Parliament during the special session on 21 Sept. The activists demanded his arrest and removal from the Parliament. They also burnt his effigy in protest.

A convention on the Manipur crisis was organised by CPIML on 15 September at Nagercoil under the title, “Will Never Forgive Manipur Attacks and Will Not Rest Until the Modi Regime is Overthrown”.

The convention began with inspiring songs by comrade Kovan and his team of Makkal Kalai Ilakkiya Kazhakam (Association for the People’s Art and Literature). The gathering nearing 1000 people was amazed at the performance of the team.

The street vendors of Patna held a massive sit-in protest on 21 September against the BJP led Municipal Corporation’s illegal and forcible evictions. The vendors demanded proper implementation of the Street Vendors’ Act. They also criticised BJP MLAs and MP from Patna for not protecting vendors and the poor in the city.

In a shocking incident in Khusrupur of Patna, a dalit woman was stripped naked, abused and beaten up and urinated over her face for being unable to repay debt taken from a private moneylender. This heinous daylight crime committed on 23 Sept. has sent shockwaves across the state with once again exposing Mahagathbandhan government’s inability to contain crimes against dalits and women, and for being unable to break the morale of feudal criminal forces in the state.

The State Conference of All India Progressive Women Association (AIPWA) Rajasthan was held on September 17 in Jaipur. The conference was attended by more than two hundred delegates from districts including Jaipur, Udaipur, Ajmer, Pratapgarh, Salumber and Dausa in Rajasthan. The conference started with paying homage to the martyrs of the people’s movements and departed comrades of AIPWA.

Comrade Mahboob Alam, leader of the legislative group of the CPIML in Bihar Assembly, sat on a sit-in protest inside the DM office at Patna when he found the district magistrate absent from the office on 19 September. He went there with a group of footpath vendors of the city who are facing evictions and threats on their livelihoods.