Statement

New Delhi, 23 July 2024

There is nothing in the Budget that can bring people of Bihar out of the vicious cycle of poverty. CPIML Bihar state secretary Kunal has criticised the Union Budget 2024 for ignoring the sorry plight of the people of Bihar who desperately need special attention and economic package for the development of the state. He called this budget a betrayal by the BJP and surrender by the JDU which will never be forgiven by the people in the state.

CPIML Tripura State Secretary Partha Karmakar has given a memorandum to the state election commission in Agartala requesting immediate intervention to ensure free and fair participation of all parties in the ongoing local body elections. Opposition party candidates are attacked and obstructed from filing nominations in these elections by the BJP in an organised manner to ensure unopposed victory to BJP candidates. This open goondaism is going on unchallenged with the tacit as well as direct support of the state administration.

In a statement of issued on July 2, AICCTU has demanded the immediate withdrawal of FIRs filed against street vendors in Delhi and Goa under the newly implemented Indian Penal Code. The organization has also called for the repeal of the new criminal code, describing it as unconstitutional and undemocratic.

In a press conference held on June 30, AIPWA's National General Secretary Meena Tiwari along with survivors of Muzaffarpur DBR company job racket case the called for the immediate formation of a high level Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the case, alleging that the administration is shielding the criminals involved. The main accused, Manish Sinha, remains at large, and the administration is reportedly under pressure from the BJP, hindering his arrest.

CPI-ML State Secretary Kunal has said that the collapse of three major bridges in Bihar within the last six days points to large scale organized corruption. The tragic incidents occurred on June 18 in Araria, June 22 in Siwan, and then in Ghodahasan, East Champaran. Earlier, in March, a bridge collapse in Supaul resulted in several workers being trapped under.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) has raised pressing questions about the Prime Minister’s silence on two critical issues affecting Bihar: the need for special state status and central university status for Patna University.

Statement | June 17, 2024, New Delhi

In the early morning of June 17, a collision between the Kanchanjungha Express and a goods train, near Rangapani railway station in North Bengal claimed 15 lives and left 60 people injured. Among those dead are three railway employees, including the loco pilot and co-pilot of the goods train. The Kanchanjungha Express incident has once again exposed the tragic state of affairs of railway safety in India.

In a press conference held in Patna on June 8, CPIML General Secretary Comrade Dipankar Bhattacharya said that the mandate of the Lok Sabha elections 2024 is against the Modi government and its anti-people policies. The mandate also is a call to strengthen the battle in defence of the Constitution and democracy. Modi's big claim of crossing 400 has fallen flat on its face with states like Uttar Pradesh giving a severe blow to the BJP.

In a statement issued by CPI(ML) Central Committee on May 3, the party strongly condemned the closure report filed by Telangana police in the institutional murder of HCU student Rohit Vemula. The statement noted “today, another painful chapter unfolded in the tragic death of Rohith Vemula on 17 January, 2016.