Statement

IN the wake of the February 14 attack on the CRPF convoy on the Jammu-Srinagar highway in Pulwama, the responsibility of which was claimed by Pakistan-based terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammad, and yesterday’s retaliatory strike inside Pakistan by the Indian Air Force, the relations between India and Pakistan have once again reached a near-war flashpoint. The foreign secretary of Government of India described the Indian response as a 'pre-emptive' counter-terror strike; Pakistan, on the other hand, has announced its decision to retaliate with a surprise attack.

CPIML CC Member Comrade Balasubramanian attended and greeted the Open Session of the 4th All Idnia Congress of the MCPI(U) at Ernakulam on 15 February. The Open Session was also addressed by central leaders of the All India Forward Bloc, RMPI, SUCI(C), CPIML (Red flag), and NTUI. Comrade Balasubramanian called for left unity to defeat the fascist offensive.

ON 9 February 2019, Dr. Atif Rabbani, the Deputy Registrar of Bihar University Muzaffarpur was brutally beaten by students who had gone to him on the pretext of collecting donation for Saraswati Puja. CPIML state secretary Kunal, state President of Insaf, Neyaz Ahmed and state Secretary of Insaf Manch Suraj Kumar Singh issued a statement condemning the incident and demanding immediate arrests of the attackers.

THE death of Comrade Sudip Chongdar, who was the West Bengal State Secretary of the Maoist Party, in prison for want of medical attention, amounts to a custodial killing, which the CPI(ML) strongly condemns.

THE Supreme Court has punished CBI Interim Director Nageshwara Rao for contempt of court: specifically for flouting the explicit orders of the SC and transferring the CBI Investigating Officer in-charge of the Muzaffarpur Shelter-Home case in which more than 40 girls were subjected to systematic sexual assault inside a shelter home. It is well-known that prominent political leaders, close to the JDU-BJP Government in power in Bihar and the Centre, have been trying to protect the accused.

AHEAD of the crucial 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Modi government has launched a conspiratorial attack on West Bengal government on the pretext of a CBI probe in the Sarada scam. The growing clamour by BJP leaders for imposition of President's Rule in the state provides a clear pointer to the Modi government's ominous design against the Constitution and the federal framework. We strongly condemn this design and appeal to the democracy-loving people of West Bengal to oppose this criminal central intervention using the CBI.

Joint statement of Asia-Pacific Left Organisations
25 January 2019

The US administration under Donald Trump has declared its recognition for Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as “interim president” in its latest coup attempt to overthrow the democratically elected government of President Nicolas Maduro.

CPI(ML) General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya while addressing a press conference on Dec 21 in Patna, has said that results of Assembly elections in five states are a good indicator for the politics in coming days.

THE Left parties – CPI, CPI (M), CPI(ML) Liberation, AIFB, and RSP have issued the call to observe December 6, 2018 as the ‘Defend the Constitution and Secularism Day’.

December 6, this year, marks the 26th anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid. In the current situation, it is essential to observe this day in defence of secularism and democracy.

CPI(ML) Bihar State Secretary Kunal stated that the Supreme Court decision to hand over the enquiry into the 17 other shelter homes (just as the Muzaffarpur shelter home enquiry has already been handed over to the CBI) which had been cited in the TISS report as being in grave condition is a welcome step. He said that from the beginning the CPI(ML) had always demanded a CBI enquiry into all the shelter homes, including the Muzaffarpur home, shown by the TISS report as being in very serious condition.