Report

MNREGA Workers in UP’s Jaunpur district submitted a memorandum to the district magistrate through a protest dharna on 19 July demanding strict action against local supply inspector. The local PDS dealer in Lakhanipur is not giving ration to the PDS card holder for many months while he is regularly taking thumb impressions as a mark of receipt of allotted foodgrains. When a complaint was made with the supply inspector, he too misbehaved and threatened the complainant Rambahadur Yadav.

Hundreds of Residents/Daily Wage Labourers Including Elders, Children Are Left Without Any Roof Over Head in the Scorching Summer of Delhi betraying the electoral promise to Delhi residents of ‘Jaha Jhuggi Wahan Makan’.

On 7th of July, a CPIML team visited Gyaspur area near Sarai Kale Khan in the national capital where the DDA has been illegally demolishing slums leaving hundreds of slum dwellers without any roof over their head in the scorching heat of Delhi summer.

Trade Unionists, Journalists, Doctors and Civil Rights Activists Speak Out against Illegal Retrenchment and Demand Implementation of Delhi HC Order

On the 72nd Day of Struggle of Sanitation Workers of LHMC Hospital Complex against Illegal Retrenchment a solidarity public meeting was held at Jantar Mantar on 12 July.

When Prime Minister Modi came to Patna the CPIML legislative group raised the demand for Patna Junction to be named after Bhagat Singh's comrade Batukeshwar Dutt.

In addition to the above demand, the demand to name Bihata Railway Station after great farmer leader Swami Sahajanand Saraswati and the Motihari Railway Station main gate after Batakh Miyan who saved Mahatma Gandhi's life was also raised at the program organized to mark the centenary year of the Bihar Vidhan Sabha and the 75th year of Independence in Patna.

A delegation led by CPIML Central Committee Member Bibek Das visited the flood-hit areas of Barpeta and Nagaon districts on June 27 and 28 accompanied by AISA Assam President Subrat Talukdar, AIPWA state Secretary Mrinalini Devi and local leader Bharati Devi.

The CPIML Uttar Pradesh unit has strongly condemned as tyrannical the death threat given by the Hargaon (Sitapur) Thana chief to the party state committee leader after a peaceful dharna protest organized by the party on 5 July 2022 in front of the Hargaon Thana.

State Secretary Sudhakar Yadav said that the Yogi government has imposed an undeclared ban on common democratic activities, making even dharna protests difficult to hold. The police have become autocratic due to the free license given to them by Yogi regime.

Like justice, truth is also being incriminated in Modi's New India. After arresting Teesta Setalvad and RB Sreekumar, the regime has now arrested Md. Zubair, cofounder of India's leading fact-checker @AltNews. CPIML GS Comrade Dipankar condemned his arrest and asked the government to stop persecuting Alt News and free Zubair immediately.

Hundreds of workers in the Venkosh Company in Patna which manufactures hydraulic jacks and is situated in the Pataliputra Industrial Area held a protest on 23 June at the Labour Office (Niyojan Bhavan) on Bailey Road.

A 4-member Union delegation comprising AICCTU State General Secretary RN Thakur, Union Vice President Ranvijay Kumar, AITUC General Secretary Ghaznafar Nawab and Venkosh Union General Secretary Surendra Yadav submitted a memorandum with the workers' demands to the Labour Commissioner.

There has been a sharp rise in attacks against dalit communities (SC/ST) in Palamu. On 29 May 2022 members of the Bhuiyan caste in Baraon, Chainpur were beaten brutally and subjected to attempted murder. On 9 May the home of Lallan Paswan was razed to the ground in broad daylight by a bulldozer in Dumri village, Naudiha Block. On 20 March members of the dalit community in Batsara village, Padwa Block were beaten badly and a Bolero vehicle parked in their home vandalized.

Large numbers of workers, farmers, women, students and youth held a rally at the call of the Rajasthan Loktantrik Morcha on 22 June 2022 in Udaipur with a 17-point charter of demands. The rally resounded with slogans: scrap the Agnipath scheme; end Bulldozer Raj; arrest Nupur Sharma and Navin Jindal; give land pattas to adivasis and other poor settled on land; conduct census on the basis of population. The rally was led by CPIML State Secretary Mahendra Chaudhury, CPIM State Secretary Amra Ram, CPI State Secretary Narendra Acharya and JDS President Arjun Detha.