Statement

Kejriwal, Hemant Soren, Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh and other Opposition Leaders Must be Immediately Released!

The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) strongly condemns the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the alleged excise scam. This marks another chapter of the Modi regime's unbridled emergency and the conspiracy to stifle opposition and democratic voices in the country.

Statement by Central Committee, CPIML Liberation

Condemning the widespread cancellation of Aadhaar cards in West Bengal, a fact-finding team of CPIML noted that the pattern reflects a political conspiracy by the Modi government to ostracise poor from the availing basic services and participating in the democratic process.

On the occasion of International Women's Day, women organisations of Delhi called for Women's Day March on 6th March in Jantar Mantar. Most shamefully, as soon as women started reaching near Jantar Mantar to commemorate women's day and raise voice against the imperialist attack on Palestine, Delhi Police unleashed crackdown and forcibly detained women. Comrade Maimoona, AIDWA, Comrade Punam, PMS, Comrade Maya John, CSW and 100 more women were picked up by Delhi Police and taken to Mandir Marg police station.

The Communist Party has submitted a memorandum to the Chief Election Commissioner of India regarding the publication of the details of criminal cases pending against the candidates in newspapers and the electronic media. This requirement puts in a highly uneven ground for exercising the democratic right to contest in elections because of very high costs incurred in the publication of such information in widely circulated regional and national newspapers and TV channels.

CPIML Bihar state secretary Kunal has strongly condemned the recent amendments in the Criminal Law procedures in Bihar which are nothing but an extension of the mafia-police state of Yogi’s Uttar Pradesh. These amendments are entirely anti-poor and anti-dalit in nature and are being met with widespread opposition from all quarters.

 CPI(ML) Liberation welcomes the much awaited verdict of the Supreme Court striking down the BJP Government's Electoral Bond Scheme as Unconstitutional. Electoral Bonds have been patently anti-democratic and unconstitutional. Hope the Supreme Court now gets the Election Commission to bring to the public domain the details of the corporate funding that has taken place through the unconstitutional Electoral Bonds scheme and retrospectively remove the screen of anonymity from the nexus between corporate power and the BJP, the biggest beneficiary of this unconstitutional scheme.

AIPWA strongly condemns the attempts of the BJP Govt. in Uttarakhand to defeat pluralism through the Uniform Civil Code. On 7th Feb. 2024, the Uttarakhand State Legislative Assembly passed the Uniform Civil Code, 2024, (“UCC”) becoming the first post-independence state to pass a law on UCC. The UCC has been a prominent part of the BJP’s election demands in 2014, forming a part of its 2019 Lok Sabha manifesto as well.

CPIML General Secretary Comrade Dipankar Bhattacharya said in a press conference on 14 February that BJP backed feudal forces have consistently been conspiring in the Bhojpur region against the rural poor’s movement. They have killed hundreds of people in massacres and filed false cases against CPIML leaders. Incidentally, so far none of the perpetrators of innumerable massacres taken place during the 1990s have been brought to justice.

CPIML in Uttarakhand has criticised state administration and police for inflicting indiscriminate violence on residents of Banbhoolpura in Haldwani. The party has asked to stop such retaliatory vengeful atrocities on people. Party’s Uttarakhand secretary Indresh Maikhuri has said Banbhoolpura violence was a result of state government’s irresponsible actions taken in haste, undermining the intelligence department’s inputs. The party has held Nainital DM and SSP directly responsible and demanded their immediate removal and a high level judicial inquiry.