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In a pre-budget consultation meeting with the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman held in New Delhi on 24 June, the representatives of central trade union organisations and employees’ federations criticised the former for not holding such consultations during previous years. The CTUs also reminded the government of the highest workers’ tripartite forum, the Indian Labour Conference (ILC) which has not been called since the NDA governments came to power ten years ago.

1. The CC welcomes the Lok Sabha election results as a mandate against Modi's dictatorship and BJP’s quest for political hegemony, and resolves to continue our fight for democracy and the Constitution. The CC also congratulates the Party candidates Comrade Rajaram Singh and Comrade Sudama Prasad for their victory in Karakat and Arrah.

A BJP MLA threatened muslim women voters inside a polling booth on the day of the poll for the parliamentary elections and tried to instigate communal tension. The said legislator from Jale in Darbhanga illegally entered inside a polling booth in Devra Bandhauli and misbehaved with women voters. He also forced women to remove their hijab. CPIML Legislative party leader in Bihar Mahboob Alam has said that there was a plan to instigate communal tension in connivance with the police.

CPIML has called for protest actions against the Delhi LG’s sanction to file chargesheet against noted writer and activist Arundhati Roy and Sheikh Showkat Hussein in a 14 year case. In utter disregard of the spirit of the 2024 mandate Modi 3.0 has started on the same note of persecution and repression. The Modi government’s continued assault on free speech and democratic rights should be opposed and protested.

Hundreds of poor families have been made homeless by a construction company’s bulldozers in Jainagar town of Madhubani district. The contractor bulldozed houses without any administrative notice or order for constructing a road. CPIML has demanded proper rehabilitation of all evictees immediately.

The CPIML condemned the UP government's drive to build a river front on the Kukrail river in Lucknow's Akbar Nagar in which 1,100 houses have been demolished with bulldozers in the name of beautification. State party secretary Sudhakar Yadav said that bulldozer raj continues in the state even after the Lok Sabha election which has given a mandate against the Yogi government’s bulldozer raj. It was the defeat in Uttar Pradesh due to which the BJP fell short of a full majority at the Centre.

On the night of June 6, two people, Tahseen Qureshi and Chand Mian were killed and another person was seriously injured in an incident of by mob lynching of cattle traders in Aarang tehsil of Chhattisgarh’s Raipur district.

Condemning the increasing violence and attempts towards communal polarisation in the state, the CPI(ML) said that ever since the BJP government has come to power in Chhattisgarh the hands of criminal and right-wing goons has been strengthened.

On June 1, several students-civil society organisations, along with hundreds of the citizens of Delhi and All India Students' Association activists, came together at Delhi's Jantar Mantar demanding an end to Israel's genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza. The protesters saluted the steadfastness of the people of Gaza and the whole of Palestine in the face of war crimes, massacres and brutality by Israeli forces.

The All India Central Council of Trade Unions has strongly condemned the illegal retrenchment of 61 sanitation workers by the DRDO in Bangalore. These workers who have been serving since 10-15 years were denied work by the central government agency from 23 March 2024.

Representatives of many political parties and organisations in Chhattisgarh have demanded judicial inquiry into the alleged encounter of 10 tribal villagers in Pedia village of Bijapur. The incident took place on 17 May where security forces claimed to have killed 12 Maoists in an encounter. The family members of ten villagers who were killed protested before the Bijapur district magistrate office saying their family members had gone to the forest to collect tendu leaves but they were killed by the forces in the fake encounter.