Report

On March 2, 2025, Patna’s Gandhi Maidan witnessed historic gathering of thousands of people from nooks and corners of Bihar representing various ongoing people’s movement and struggles. The gathering under the banner of CPIML’s Badlo Bihar Mahajutan (Transform Bihar Gathering) marked a pivotal movement in the landscape of people’s struggle in the state. 

On March 1, the West Bengal Education Minister arrived at Jadavpur University in response to a call by WBCUPS, a teachers' organization influenced by the ruling Trinamool Congress. Representatives of left-leaning student organizations, including AISA, SFI, and others, sought to democratically submit a memorandum to the minister.

A civil society convention on ‘75 Years of Republic: Challenges for Bihar’ was held in Patna on 12 February. Dipankar Bhattacharya, Delhi University teacher Ratan Lal, Dr. Laxman Yadav, Navin Kumar of Article19, Prof. Chintu Kumari, activists Vandana Prabha, Insaf Manch president Gopal Ravidas and Prof. Shamim Alam addressed the convention which was conducted by Sandip Saurav.

Left parties and various mass organisations have submitted their objections to the proposed Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill 2024 which was tabled in Maharashtra Assembly in December last year and was referred to a Joint Select Committee. CPI, CPI(M), CPI(ML) Liberation, Peasants and Workers Party, Lal Nishan Party along with more than two dozen other organisations have sent a letter to the Select Committee calling the provisions of this proposed Bill draconian, repressive and unconstitutional.

The bill introduced by Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami’s government to amend the Uttar Pradesh Zamindari Abolition Act, 1950 — commonly referred to as the "Land Law" — does not prevent land grabbing but instead creates a more convoluted pathway for it.

The 11th All India Conference of the All India Central Council of Trade Unions began with the open session at the Talkatora Stadium on 25 February 2025, New Delhi, with more than 5000 delegates including representatives from various Left Parties as well as unions with organized and unorganised workers in the public and private sector from across India participating in the conference.

CPIML Liberation through its General Secretary, Dipankar Bhattacharya has filed an intervention petition in defence of Places of Worship Act 1991 in the Supreme Court. The promise of independent India was to move into a modern Republic and build on the progressive ethos of our freedom movement.

The values of secularism, brotherhood and fraternity are not just essential but corner stone of India's foundation. Any attempt to weaken it, is an attack on our constitution and our democracy.

CPIML General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya condemned the BJP’s bulldozer politics, warning that Yogi Adityanath’s model of repression would not be tolerated in Bihar. Standing in solidarity with the displaced Manjhi community (Musahar community) at Buddha Statue Chowk on 13 February, he held the Nitish Kumar government responsible for systematically displacing Dalits and the poor while failing to implement a resettlement policy in the past 20 years.

The 14th Uttar Pradesh State Conference of the CPI(ML) Liberation commenced with a protest march in Lucknow on February 15 against the politics of hatred and the authoritarian ‘Bulldozer Raj’ of the Yogi-Modi regime. The two-day conference, attended by 400 delegates from various districts of Uttar Pradesh, began with a solemn tribute to martyrs, where participants observed two minutes of silence.

A convention on proposed PESA Rules was organised in Ranchi on 5 February 2025 at Mahendra Singh Bhawan. Jharkhand these days is intensely discussing the revised Rules (originally proposed and made available to public in 2023) for Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 (PESA Act). The PESA was enacted in 1996, the Rules for this are yet to be made and implemented in Jharkhand. Odisha is another such state waiting for the framing of rules while rest of the eight states where PESA applies have made their Rules.