Report

The CPIML in Uttar Pradesh has strongly condemned the vandalization and breaking of a life-size statue of Babasaheb Ambedkar by anti-social elements in a primary school park in Hargaon, Sitapur District on the night of 18 August. The Gram Pradhan Vimla Singh has given a written complaint in the Thana and the accused are the same people who had attacked dalits on 14 August. Now people fear that further lethal attacks may be imminent on the dalits as the beheading of the statue goes unpunished.

On August 12th, the Kozhikode Sessions Court granted bail to a 74-year-old social activist – Civic Chandran – observing that "The photographs produced along with the bail application by the accused would reveal that the defacto complainant herself is wearing a dress which is sexually provocative. So Section 354A will not prima facie stand against the accused.” The aforementioned dictum pronounced by the court is a blatant violation of constitutional morality and the democratic fabric of India.

In May 2018, hundreds of local villagers had organised a march against the proposed expansion of the Sterlite’s Copper Smelter Plant in Tuticorin town of Tamil Nadu. They were protesting against the severe pollution from the plant in the region leading to catastrophic environmental pollution of ground water and the air. During the peaceful demonstration, the police opened fire on the protesters, killing 13 and injuring 102 people.

CPIML Bihar State Secretary Kunal has asked the Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav to reconsider the appointment of newly appointed Finance Minister Kartikey Singh in view of the ongoing controversy about his involvement in a kidnapping case. The presence of such people in the Cabinet lowers the image of the government.

CPIML condemns the brutal lathcharge on 22 August on agitating youth demanding teachers’ appointment in Bihar and warned the state government to not repeat the same language of repression on unemployed youth as was being done in the earlier government. The party has demanded from the state government to start negotiations with the agitating students/candidate teachers and take stern action against officials responsible for police repression on innocent agitators without any delay.

Addressing a press conference in Patna on 13 August, CPIML General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya said that the ouster of the BJP from power in Bihar is a positive event for the entire country. The formation of a non-BJP government in Bihar is a step in the right direction to rid the country of the BJP's politics of conspiracy and disaster and generates fresh hope in forces fighting against attacks on the Constitution and democracy.

CPIML has strongly condemned the deployment of Police and Intelligence personnel in front of Uttarakhand State Committee member Comrade Atul Sati's house during the Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami's visit to Joshimath. Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami visited Joshimath on 10 August 2022 in connection with a puja event. Meanwhile, there are two movements going on in Joshimath--the Ghasiyari movement in Helang and the 65-day long movement against the closing down of the Rajiv Gandhi Abhinav Residential School.

Odisha. More than 100 families are earning their livelihood by cultivating maize in about 30 acres of land in the villages of Kopasbhata, Sariabhata and Lakhtipakhana in Burja Panchayat, Umarkot Block, Navrangpur District, Odisha.

Suddenly between 10 am and 12 noon on the morning of 13 August 2022 the Van Suraksha Samiti (Forest Protection Committee) set fire to the homes of these adivasi families and destroyed their maize crop by letting loose cows and buffaloes in the fields.

The CPIML Uttar Pradesh state unit has strongly condemned the vengeful arrest and brutal beating on 14 August at the Hargaon Thana of State Committee member and District in-charge Arjun Lal, who had gone to the Thana to register an FIR in connection with a case of oppression of dalits. The party has started a dharna led by State Committee member Anil Bharti at the Sitapur District HQ to demand immediate and unconditional release of Arjun Lal and other arrested activists.

Azadi (Freedom) Marches with the tricolour flying aloft were organized in all states from 9-15 August, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Independence and 80th anniversary of the Quit India movement of 1942.

On 9 August the party organised Pledge meetings on the 80th anniversary of Quit India Movement at thousands of places across different states where following pledge was taken collectively: