Report

CPIML General Secretary Comrade Dipankar Bhattacharya met with Jharkhand Chief Minister and JMM Executive President Shri Hemant Soren at his residence in Ranchi on 11 September 2022. Accompanying Comrade Dipankar were CPIML MLA Vinod Singh and Jharkhand State Secretary Manoj Bhakt. The talks were focussed on drought, MNREGA wages, roll back of the Netarhat field firing range, strengthening forest rights, rations and other topics.

The party condemns the ghastly killing of comrade Surendra Paswan by criminals led by village mukhiya of his own village in Bihta of Patna district on 29 August. He was killed for opposing atrocities on poor Dalits of his village. CPIML has criticized the Mahagathbandhan government for not taking pro-active measures against criminals which were given a freehand by BJP under the previous government. CPIML has asked Nitish Kumar to take cognizance of this incident and action against the criminals.

More than 30 sanitation workers were denied duty in JNU on 1 September. After denying wages to workers for months, denying to implement Equal Pay for Equal Work order, denying to ensure their right to get regularised, the JNU administration came down to retrench sanitation workers. Number of workers in JNU are being reduced systematically for last four-five years resulting in inhuman work load on few workers.

The MSP Khadya Suraksha (Food Security) Yatra was flagged off on 1 September 2022 by All India Kisan Mahasabha General Secretary Rajaram Singh after garlanding the statue of Swami Sahajanand Saraswati. The Yatra will proceed through various blocks in Patna District on 1 September. Present at the garlanding program were former Chairperson of the State Human Rights Commission and AIKM executive member Manju Verma and AIKM leaders including KD Yadav, Ramadhar Singh, Shivsagar Sharma, Sudama Prasad and others.

Uttarakhand ASHA Health Workers Union (AICCTU) organized protests at various places in Uttarakhand and submitted memorandums to the Chief Minister on the following issues: failure of the government to pay honorarium as per the promise made by the CM on 31 August 2021; payment of arrears due for the Covid period; payment of other arrears due to ASHAs.

The Adivasi Sangharch Morcha  submitted a charter of demands to the Odisha government on 3 September reiterating the need to address the problems of tribal population mainly education, health, land, drinking water and forest rights. A large population of adivasis is living under severe threat of food insecurity amidst unprecedented levels of unemployment, but at the same time big corporates are plundering their resources as well as their labour power.

South Asia Solidarity Group (SASG) and various civil society organisations in the United Kingdom protested against the London Science Museum for receiving funding from Indian corporate group, Adani. The protest, which was organised on September 1st, highlighted the destructive and exploitative role of Adani Group in India and Australia.

Bengaluru has been experiencing torrential rains for the past few weeks, thus rendering several thousand working-class families in the lurch due to submergence of their houses. Many areas in Bengaluru have been inundated in rain water owing to encroachment of lakes and rajakaluves (storm water drains) by illegal construction sites, lack of urban planning and STPs and apartments pumping out water from their premises into these nearby working-class areas.

On 28 August 2022, at 9 PM, Ramchandra Vanvasi, a member of the Vanvasi community, had come to the Kali temple in Pipri village in UP’s Chandauli  to pay obeisance and pray for the recovery of his ailing sister-in-law. Ramchandra, a resident of Madhuban Bahorikapur Banvasi Basti, had come to Pipri to get medicine for his sister-in-law but could not get the medicine, after which he went to the temple to pray. On seeing Vanvasi in the temple, the Brahmins in the village became enraged and started abusing him.

Nitish Kumar Should Take Action Against Police Raid on CPIML Darbhanga Office

It was not unnatural to for the poor dalit villagers of Rajawada village of Darbhanga to get angry and resist the police who went there to bulldoze their houses. But the situation was worsened by few BJP elements of a nearby village Tarauni who added further tension by spreading rumours and communalising the situation leading to a violent clash with the police. One homeguard jawan later succumbed to the injuries.