Report

On 31st May, the All India Students' Association held Student Parliament on Jantar Mantar against the National Education Policy 2020. Students from all over the country and more than 25 Universities joined the Student Parliament raising voice against FYUP, CUET, CBCS and the rampant politics of communal hate in the country by the ruling BJP-RSS.

The All-India Lawyers Association for Justice (AILAJ) held its first National Conference on 28th and 29th May, 2022 at Bengaluru. Delegates from 11 states across the country participated in the same including Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Delhi, Assam, Odisha, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Kerala.

CPIML Bihar State Secretary Kunal on 28 May expressed serious concern over the dozen or more deaths due to poisonous liquor in Gaya and Aurangabad Districts. He said that hundreds of lives have been lost to poisonous liquor so far in Bihar but the government remains insensitive; how many deaths will it take for the government to wake up?

Five Left Parties conducted a countrywide campaign in response to the nationwide call against back-breaking inflation, rising unemployment, cancellation of ration cards, Bulldozer Raj and skyrocketing prices of petroleum products between 25-31 May.

A CPIML team visited Islamnagar Tola in Kodra village, Siddharthnagar District, Uttar Pradesh on 17 May 2022 to find out the facts in the incident where a woman Roshni (50) w/o Akbar Ali died when she was shot in the neck during police action on the night of 14-15 May.

On 17 May AISA and other student organizations and civil society had protested against the violence by ABVP on Lucknow University Professor Ravikant, and demanded strictest action against the guilty persons. Earlier, on the 10th of May Prof Ravikant, an articulate social thinker and ideologue who comes from the Bahujan community, had been violently attacked by the ABVP inside the University campus. During the attack they hurled abusive and undemocratic slogans and gave him death threats.

AICCTU organized a protest on 20 May in front of the Delhi Chief Minister against the increasing number of industrial accidents in Delhi including the Mundka fire tragedy. AICCTU led workers from various areas of Delhi in a march that culminated in a protest meeting at the barricades near the CM Camp office. AISA also participated in the protest. Earlier, on 17 May AICCTU and other trade union organizations had protested in front of Labour Minister Manish Sisodia's residence against the Mundka fire incident.

A lower middle class settlement in Kangan Ghat situated in Sabalpur on the banks of the Ganga in Patna city was forcibly razed by dozens of bulldozers on after the 'malikana' land was declared government land.

Bulldozer Attack on the Poor of Kanganghat will not be Tolerated: Mahboob Alam

A protest was organized in Patna on 22 May against the charging and arrest of renowned historian Prof Ratanlal (subsequently released on bail after people's protests) and cases against Prof Ravikant and filmmaker Avinash Das. The protest was held under the joint banners of AIPF, AISA, RYA and Jan Sanskriti Manch.

The CPIML, Bharatiya Kisan Union along with some other organizations have formed the Nisha Yadav ko Nyay Do Manch (Justice for Nisha Yadav Front). The Front has organized a hunger strike and dharna since 14 May 2022 at the District HQ in Chandauli. The hunger strike was commenced by CPIML State Secretary Sudhakar Yadav who sat on a 50-hour hunger strike. BKU Block Secretary Manidev Chaturvedi and leaders of other organizations also sat with him on hunger strike.