Report

The Araria district administration in Bihar has issued eviction notices to hundreds of Adivasi and Maha-dalit families. About 500 families have been residing for a very long time in Belgachhi village of Raniganj block who are now facing eviction threat thanks to the callousness of the state government. While opposing this move CPIML MLA from Sikta Virendra Prasad Gupta visited this village on 16 May along with a team of party leaders to express solidarity with the affected people.

An Ambedkar statue was attacked and damaged in Naubatpur of Patna on the night of 15 May by antisocial elements. This statue was installed at a function on 14 April 2022 by villagers in Paswan tola in Sarasat village which falls in the Adla panchayat. 

Hundreds and students, boys and girls, and their guardians, from Mehandora, Dedhua, Milki tola, Kirkiri, Azimabad and Chilhar villages in Agiaon Assembly constituency in Bihar organised a Sadak Par School on 4 May 2023. This was assisted by the activists of AIKM and AIARLA who have taken up the issue of children’s education on priority.

Gaya, 5 May 2023.

Uttar Koel Nahar Sangharsh Morcha has been on a sit-in protest since 18 April for their demand of cleaning of the canal which has acquired silt because of lack of maintenance by the respective authorities.

Hundreds of footpath vendors gathered on 3 May, 2023 in Patna at Paya No. 6 near the Railway station to register their protest against the ongoing process to evict them from the state capital Patna in the name of Smart City Mission. They were led by Com. Mehboob Alam, the leader of CPI(ML) in the State Legislative Assembly. While addressing the gathering, Com Mehboob said that since the Mahagathbandan government is being supported by our party, there is no reason why even a single vendor should be evicted.

The land subsidence in Joshimath town in Uttarakhand continues. In January the houses that were found unsafe for living were marked as unsafe on the recommendation of the Central Building Research Institute were vacated. The affected resident families were moved, on government expenses, in temporary arrangements like hotels and community houses. People have been living in these rehabilitation camps since then, though under very inconvenient conditions. Then people were forced to move into these makeshift camps, even police were used in some instances.

An Intervention by AICCTU

CPIML, Tamilnadu unit, received an information that five labourers (3 female and 2 male) along with their 2 young children are treated as bonded labourers, since March 8, 2023, in Ambasamudram Village, Usilambatti Taluk of Madurai District in Tamilnadu. They hail from Beed and Parbani districts of Maharashtra. Anna Gidve is the contractor from Maharashtra who treated them as slaves. This arrogant contractor is associated with Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party.

Hazaribagh, Barkagaon block. Villagers of Gondalpura panchayat have installed a signboard banning entry of coal mining companies on their village land. They are protesting with a sit-in continuing since 12 April 2023. The Modi government has allotted blocks for coal mining to Adani, NTPC and JSW in this area. Villagers have pledged to not give even an inch of their lands.

Demand immediate arrest of the accused President of Wrestling Federation and action against the police personnel who misbehaved with the women wrestlers.

Modi's Amrit Kaal is turning out to be a festive season of frauds. The Hindenburg report triggered a global storm by indicating the Adani group for 'the largest con in corporate history'. Close on the heels of the explosion of the Adani scam we had another explosive revelation. An alleged con man from Gujarat, Kiran Patel, who had been travelling across the state in z-plus security camouflaging as an Additional Director from the PMO, was arrested by the Kashmir police.