Statement

All India Progressive Women’s Association (AIPWA) strongly condemned the recently passed the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion (Amendment) Bill 2024 in the state assembly on July 30, which aiming to make the existing 2021 anti-conversion law more stringent. The new draconian bill proposes increasing the maximum sentence from 10 years to life imprisonment, along with a fine of up to 5 lakh rupees.

With the Hasina government's attempt to crush the popular quota reform movement in Bangladesh by unleashing all-out violence, the student movement had grown into a people's upsurge for Sheikh Hasina's resignation and an end to her autocratic regime. Her resignation and exit from the country vindicates the anti-autocratic anger and assertion of the people of Bangladesh. We congratulate the democracy-loving people of Bangladesh at this hour of victorious assertion.

Won’t Let the Announcement of 2 Lakh Rupees Assistance for 95 Lakh Ultra-Poor Families Turn into Empty Promises

Patna, July 18, 2024

Patna, July 22, 2024

New Delhi, 23 July 2024

There is nothing in the Budget that can bring people of Bihar out of the vicious cycle of poverty. CPIML Bihar state secretary Kunal has criticised the Union Budget 2024 for ignoring the sorry plight of the people of Bihar who desperately need special attention and economic package for the development of the state. He called this budget a betrayal by the BJP and surrender by the JDU which will never be forgiven by the people in the state.

CPIML Tripura State Secretary Partha Karmakar has given a memorandum to the state election commission in Agartala requesting immediate intervention to ensure free and fair participation of all parties in the ongoing local body elections. Opposition party candidates are attacked and obstructed from filing nominations in these elections by the BJP in an organised manner to ensure unopposed victory to BJP candidates. This open goondaism is going on unchallenged with the tacit as well as direct support of the state administration.

In a statement of issued on July 2, AICCTU has demanded the immediate withdrawal of FIRs filed against street vendors in Delhi and Goa under the newly implemented Indian Penal Code. The organization has also called for the repeal of the new criminal code, describing it as unconstitutional and undemocratic.

In a press conference held on June 30, AIPWA's National General Secretary Meena Tiwari along with survivors of Muzaffarpur DBR company job racket case the called for the immediate formation of a high level Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the case, alleging that the administration is shielding the criminals involved. The main accused, Manish Sinha, remains at large, and the administration is reportedly under pressure from the BJP, hindering his arrest.

CPI-ML State Secretary Kunal has said that the collapse of three major bridges in Bihar within the last six days points to large scale organized corruption. The tragic incidents occurred on June 18 in Araria, June 22 in Siwan, and then in Ghodahasan, East Champaran. Earlier, in March, a bridge collapse in Supaul resulted in several workers being trapped under.