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CPI (M) MP John Brittas summoned by Vice prez over ‘anti-Amit Shah’ article

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A show-cause notice has been served to Communist Party of India (Marxist) MP John Brittas by the Vice President of India and Rajya Sabha chairperson Jagdeep Dhankar on Sunday over an article criticizing Union Home Minister Amit Shah for outbursts against Kerala.
Brittas’s critical article – Perils of Propaganda – on Shah was published by The Indian Express on February 20.
The summon was made based on a complaint by the general secretary of Kerala’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) P Sudheer.

Confirming the news, Brittas said it was the Centre’s tactics to silence dissent.
“Yes, I was called for a meeting over an article I wrote and I explained sufficiently my position on the issue. I told the Rajya Sabha chairman that writing the article was my fundamental right and part of my freedom of expression. If a cryptic remark can be made on Kerala, I am fully free to respond,” Brittas said.
Brittas had written over a remark by Shah while touring Karnataka in February that the saffron party is the only hope to keep the country safe. “There is Kerala near you. I don’t want to say much,” Shah had remarked.
“Shah’s periodic outbursts targeting Kerala are proof of his desperation as well as his attempt to turn India into a Hindu Rashtra and rewind this country to a past with the Manu Smriti replacing the Constitution. Kerala has tirelessly resisted his party’s designs,” Brittas mentioned in his article.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 30, 2023
BJP cashed on Pulwama, Balakot air strike: CPI (M)’s Manik Sarkar

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Agartala: The BJP had “used” the 2019 Pulwama terror attack and the consequent air strike at Balakot in the neighbouring country to win the Lok Sabha polls that year, former Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar claimed on Sunday.
Sarkar made the claim days after the former Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, Satya Pal Malik, alleged that the Pulwama terror attack was a result of “systemic failure, involving gross security and intelligence lapses”.
A terror attack was carried out in Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir by a suicide bomber on February 14, 2019, resulting in the death of 40 CRPF personnel.

“Using the atmosphere, they (BJP) won the 2019 Lok Sabha election and it is Satya Pal Malik, who was the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir when the incident took place, is now speaking about it,” Sarkar said at a party programme here.
Soon after the Balakot incident, the CPI(M) had expressed doubt and asserted that there was a “deep-rooted conspiracy” behind the incident before the general election held in April-May that year to overshadow other burning issues like unemployment.
India’s warplanes pounded a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist training camp in Pakistan’s Balakot on February 26, 2019, in response to the Pulwama terror attack.
Expressing surprise over Malik’s interview, Sarkar said the Prime Minister, Home Minister and National Security Advisor are now “observing silence”.
Former army chief Gen (retd) Shankar Roychowdhury has also raised concerns over the issue, he said.

“After the former Governor gave the interview, I was thinking that he would be summoned by the CBI and it proved to be correct as he was asked to appear before the federal investigating agency on a case related to an alleged insurance scam,” Sarkar said.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has asked Malik to answer certain queries in connection with an alleged insurance scam in Jammu and Kashmir.
The CBI move comes barely a week after Malik gave an interview to “The Wire”, in which he made critical remarks about the BJP-led Centre, especially regarding its handling of Jammu and Kashmir where he served as the last governor before the erstwhile state was bifurcated into Union territories.
Claiming that the country has for the first time experienced such a “reactionary government”, the CPI(M) politburo member said the BJP can be defeated if people come together.
“In Tripura, 60 per cent of voters did not support them (BJP) in the recent Assembly elections. Political force, Tipra Motha which openly criticised the BJP, helped the saffron party to win the polls”, he said.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 23, 2023
CPI plans to fight Karnataka polls on its ‘ears of corn and sickle’ symbol

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New Delhi: The Communist Party of India, which recently lost its national party status, will contest the Karnataka election on its ‘ears of corn and sickle’ symbol, party MP Binoy Viswam said Friday.
The CPI was recognised as a ‘national party’ in 1989. It is the only political party to contest all general elections on the same electoral symbol and has maintained an uninterrupted presence in the Lok Sabha. It was the first non-Congress party to form government in any state and since then has been part of many governments.
To use its poll symbol in a state where it is not a recognised party, CPI will have to seek the Election Commission’s permission.

“In the Karnataka election, CPI will contest on the symbol ‘ears of corn and sickle’ that used to be the party’s election symbol ever since 1952… The CPI will strive hard to retain it,” Viswam said in a tweet.
While the CPI’s state party status has been withdrawn in West Bengal and Odisha, it continues to enjoy the status in Kerala, Manipur and Tamil Nadu.
The major advantage of a ‘national tag’ is that the party can have a common symbol across the country for its candidates thus making it easier for people to recognise it.
The nomination process for the May 10 Karnataka Assembly poll began on April 13 with April 20 being the last date to file the papers.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 14, 2023
CPI to launch padayatra against PM Modi’s rule, across India from April 14

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Hyderabad: Communist Party of India (CPI) National Secretary K Narayana on Monday said the party would organise a
padayatra from April 14 to May 15 throughout India against PM Modi government’s rule.
“A call has been given by CPI from April 14 to May 15, to launch a padayatra to meet the people. We will go to every village, meet the people and explain the dangerous rule of the PM Modi government in all aspects including corporate, development and all common problems.
We are conducting this program throughout India,” CPI National Secretary K Narayana told ANI in Hyderabad.

“We want to explain the dangers coming from the Prime Minister to the country, the Constitution, democracy and secularism. We also want to unite all anti-BJP forces,” he added.
Speaking on PM Modi’s degree he said, “I am unable to understand how he is lying being a Prime Minister. He is lying about everything including his graduation certificate.
This is not about the qualification or the Prime Minister, the question is why is he hiding his graduation certificate unethically and lying about it.”
He also appreciated KCR’s decision to participate in the bid for the Vishakhapatnam steel plant and said, “Telangana Chief Minister KCR is ready to participate in the bid for the Visakhapatnam steel plant.
Around 32 students died during the agitation ‘Visakha Ukku Andhrula Hakku’. It is a prestigious public sector undertaking.”
Telangana state government is ready to participate in the bid.

We welcome the decision and congratulate Telangana CM. CPI and our trade unions will support KCR to keep the public sector, he further said.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 11, 2023
AAP now national party; Pawar’s NCP, Mamata’s TMC, CPI lose status

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New Delhi: The Election Commission on Monday recognised the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as a national party and withdrew the national party status of the All India Trinamool Congress, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Communist Party of India (CPI).
In an order issued on Monday, the Commission also revoked the state party status granted to RLD in Uttar Pradesh, BRS in Andhra Pradesh, PDA in Manipur, PMK in Puducherry, RSP in West Bengal and MPC in Mizoram.
The Commission said the AAP has been named as a national party based on its electoral performance in four states — Delhi, Goa, Punjab and Gujarat.

The Arvind Kejriwal-led party is in power in Delhi and Punjab.
The poll panel said that the status of NCP, CPI and the Trinamool Congress as national political parties would be withdrawn.
The BJP, Congress, CPI(M), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), National People’s Party (NPP) and the AAP are now national parties.
The Commission said that NCP and Trinamool Congress will be recognised as state parties in Nagaland and Meghalaya respectively based on their performance in the recently concluded assembly elections.
It also granted “recognised state political party” status to the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) in Nagaland, Voice of the People Party in Meghalaya and the Tipra Motha in Tripura.

According to the rules, a political party is granted national status only if it is a recognised state party in four or more states or has 2% seats in Lok Sabha
It should be noted that once a party loses its national party status, its members cannot use a common symbol in states where the party is not recognised. Hence, TMC candidates will not be able to use their party’s symbol for the upcoming Karnataka assembly elections.
Reacting to the development, AAP’s Raghav Chadha tweeted, “In just 10 years @ArvindKejriwalji’s party has done what it took decades for big parties to do. Salute to every Aam Aadmi Party worker who shed blood, sweat, faced lathis, tear gas and water cannons for this party. Congratulations everyone for this new beginning”
सिर्फ़ 10 साल में @ArvindKejriwal जी की पार्टी ने वो कर दिखाया जो बड़ी पार्टियों को करने में दशकों लग गए। हर आम आदमी पार्टी कार्यकर्ता जिसने इस पार्टी के लिए खून पसीना बहाया, सत्ता की लाठियों, आंसू गैस और पानी की बौछारों का सामना किया, उन सबको सलाम। इस नये आग़ाज़ के लिए सबको बधाई pic.twitter.com/TyAkXFMimf
— Raghav Chadha (@raghav_chadha) April 10, 2023
(With inputs from PTI)

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April 10, 2023
Telangana: CPI demands Dharmendra Pradhan’s dismissal for failing to fill up vacancies

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Hyderabad: The Communist Party of India (CPI) has demanded Prime Minister Narendra Modi to dismiss the Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan from the cabinet for his ‘irresponsible behaviour’ of ‘failing’ to fill vacancies in central universities.
CPI national secretary K Narayana, in a letter to the Prime Minister, said that Pradhan was fueling regional differences among people in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha borders by giving slogans like ‘Andhras go back’.
“The issues of people in 20 villages bordering Andhra and Odisha were yet to be solved while on the contrary, the Union Minister was trying to create tensions,” said the CPI secretary.

“Further, there are 45 central universities, 23 IITs and 20 IIMs in the country. According to reliable sources, in these prestigious Institutions, nearly 11,050 faculty posts were lying vacant,” he added.
Deliberating on the vacancies, Narayana said, “Altogether 6,028 faculty posts in central universities, 4526 in IITs, and 496 in IIMs were lying vacant apart from thousands of non-teaching staff kept vacant.”
Stressing that ‘brain drain’ is in full swing in the country, Narayana said that educated people from India were joining as professors in many prestigious universities like Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge.
“A developing country like India needs many brilliant professors, who can prepare many administrators with technical know-how and in the field of business administration as well,” he said.
“We should concentrate on permanently filling up faculty vacancies from time to time to put brakes on brain drain,” he added.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 4, 2023
Telangana: CPI calls for intensification of land struggle

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Hyderabad: The Communist Party of India (CPI) state secretary K. Sambasiva Rao has given a call to party leaders and cadre to prepare themselves to launch struggles to ensure that poor and marginalised sections are given lands.
While speaking at a meeting of the erstwhile Rangareddy district, the secretary directed the party cadre to ensure stressing on issues pertaining to public importance and intensify the struggle so that the landless poor get their share of lands in Telangana.
He further criticised the Revenue department officials for remaining indifferent to the encroachments on government and endowment lands by ‘land sharks’.
While recalling the struggles that the CPI being the only political party that had been fighting on behalf of the poor, the secretary remarked that it was at the instance of the CPI that the parties in power distributed lands to thousands of poor in the past.
The secretary went on to criticise the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government at the Centre for imposing a burden on people through steep hikes in the prices of essentials as well as petro products.
“The Central government was diluting the Constitution besides usurping the rights of people and this called for a relentless fight against the government’s anti-people policies,” urged the secretary.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 9, 2023
Political rallies provide platform to interact with people, says CPI (M)

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Visakhapatnam: Communist Party of India (M) politburo member B V Raghavulu on Saturday said the government orderbrought by the Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress (YSRC) government is an attempt to thwart opposition parties.
Raghavulu, while speaking to reporters, accused the YS Jagan Mohan Reddy government of snatching the rights of parties by bringing old government orders with new names.
The order comes in the wake of a stampede at a rally earlier this month organised by the main opposition Telugu Desam Party at Kandukuru in which eight people were killed. The prohibitory order was issued later in the month under the provisions of the Police Act, of 1861.
“It provides a platform to meet people directly to address their public issues,” Raghavulu said.
“The padayatra trend has been running in Andhra Pradesh. We express our solidarity with the Yatra taken by political parties under the auspices of Special Status Sadhana Samiti,” he added.
The YSR Congress government has prohibited public meetings and rallies from being held on roads, including national highways, citing public safety.
He also said “those” who are taking padayatra in democracy should be welcomed.
Notably, Rayalaseema Saaguneeti Sadhana Samiti (RSSS), in 2019, launched a 100-km-long padayatra from Nandyal town to demand a rightful share of water for backward regions in the state.

Earlier in the month, S Vishnuvardhan Reddy, the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP General Secretary in the state criticised the Andhra Pradesh government for its strange decision of banning public meetings on roads and said the political parties have the right to hold rallies.
Raghavulu accused the YS Jagan Mohan Reddy government of taking away the rights of Sarpanches in the state.
“It is foolish of him to mock democracy and bring village swaraj. Village Panchayats should be given rights and funds,” he added.
He added that the state government should be pressured to withdraw the privatization proposal” of the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

January 28, 2023