Enable GingerCPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on February 1.DESPITE the tall claims made by the finance minister about the state of India’s economy, the interim union budget for 2024-25 reveals the grim economic situation confronting India’s working people and the vicious face of the Modi government’s conception of ‘development’ which is designed to make the rich, richer and the poor, poorer.

Enable GingerCPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on January 8THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) welcomes the judgment by the Supreme Court nailing down the Gujarat government’s illegal actions of granting remission to eleven convicts who had been sentenced to life for gang raping of pregnant Bilkis Bano, members of her family and also mass murdering at least fourteen of them in the 2002 Gujarat communal carnage.

Enable GingerCPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on January 2THE latest expression of the Modi government’s active hostility towards the demand based rural work guarantee law – the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) is the imposition of an Aadhaar Based Payment System (ABPS) the deadline of which expired on December 31, snatching away the right to crores of workers.  Under the law, every rural worker has the right to a job card and every job card holder has the right to at least 100 days work.The first violation of th

Enable GingerCPI(M)  Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on December 24THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly condemns the brutal killing of three civilians in the Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir while they were in custody of the army.Mohammad Showkat, Safeer Hussain and Shabir Ahmad were rounded up by army personnel and subjected to severe torture which resulted in their deaths.  The J&K administration has announced compensation for the families of deceased.  But that is not enough.  There has to be a speedy investig

Enable GingerCPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on December 11THE verdict of the Supreme Court dismissing the challenges to the abrogation of Article 370 and dissolution of the state of Jammu and Kashmir is disturbing and has serious consequences for the federal structure of our constitution which is one of its fundamental features.The verdict says that J&K does not retain any element of sovereignty after the Instrument of Accession was signed and hence rules that the constitution of J&K is redundant.