Report

CPIML Member of Parliament Comrade Raja Ram Singh and Sudama Prasad criticised the Union Budget 2024 as anti-poor and pro-corporate during the parliamentary discussion. They noted that the budget depicts how a government can continue to ignore the plight of the Indian people with some lofty ideas and self-congratulatory words.

On August 3, a joint protest by CPIML Liberation and other left parties was organised in Delhi’s Parliament Street in solidarity with Palestinian people and their struggle for Liberation at Delhi's Parliament Street.

On the occasion of the 52nd Anniversary of Comrade Charu Mazumdar's Martyrdom and 50th anniversary of Party Reorganisation, tributes were paid to martyrs and departed leaders and pledge was renewed to strengthen the party and prepare for a new phase of growth and expansion. The day was observed by garlanding his bust at Charu Bhawan, the party central office in Delhi. Newly elected CPIML MPs Rajaram Singh and Sudama Prasad also joined the party central staff in this commemoration.

A protest was held at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi against the continued arrest of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and his deteriorating health in jail. This was addressed by many prominent leaders of INDIA bloc parties including Dipankar Bhattacharya, D Raja, Sitaram Yechuri, Akhilesh Yadav, Sharad Pawar, Gaurav Gogoi, Pramod Tiwary, Sunita Kejriwal, and many others.

Hundreds of advocates from Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, under the banner of Joint Advocates Associations Action Committee (JAAC) of Tamil Nadu, held a protest against the new criminal laws at Jantar Mantar on 29 July.

CPIML MPs Comrade Sudama Prasad and Comrade Raja Ram Singh attended the protest and addressed the gathering expressing solidarity from CPIML with their struggle to withdraw the draconian criminal laws.

Comrade Raja Ram Singh asked the government, is the Pradhan Mantri Internship Scheme proposed in the Budget an attempt to create an army of Companyveers like the disastrous Agniveer retirement scam? Has the much trumpeted 'Skill India' scheme turned into 'Kill India' for our youth?

Thousands of rural labour activists demonstrated in Patna under the banner of All India Agricultural and Rural Labour Association (AIARLA) demanding immediate implementation of Nitish Kumar's promise of ₹2,00,000 assistance for each of Bihar's 94 lakh families earning less than ₹6,000 per month, Social Security Pensions, NREGA wage hike and other demands on 25 July.

They also condemned Bihar government’s policy of Bulldozer raj of demolishing homes of the poor in the name of development schemes.

Bihar Rajya Vidhyalaya Rasoiya Sangh (Mid-day Meal workers union) affiliated with AICCTU organised a huge protest on 24 July in Patna for Mid-day Meal workers demands of increase in the honorarium to Rs. 10000 per month for 12 months of the year along with a 13-points charter. They also protested the handing over of the Mid-day meal scheme to NGOs in the state.

CPI(ML) Liberation launched the ‘Haq Do, Vaada Nibhaao’ (Give us Our Rights, Fulfil Your Promises) campaign at a convention in Patna on July 16th, 2024. The campaign seeks a grant of Rs. 2 lakh to every poor family, land for the landless, pucca houses for all, 200 units of free electricity, MSP for farmers, demands of scheme workers, employment for youth, concerns of migrant workers, rural development, to uphold Indian Constitution and democracy, among other demands that affects the working class people in Bihar.

In the last week of June, an administrative review meeting by the Chief Minister of West Bengal mentioned the issues of Urban Development and ‘beautification’, encroachments throughout the city landscape, especially in Kolkata and in the adjacent suburbs. The day after the announcements, the police, administration and local authorities began organized crackdown on the street vendors and hawkers in different parts of the state.