Statement

The CPIML expresses deep concerns over recent reports which state that Sainik Schools across the country will be handed over to private players, a majority of whom belong to the BJP-RSS and other Hindu Supremacist organisations. Sainik Schools, which is run under the Ministry of Defence, play a vital role in the recruitment process in armed forces.

CPIML General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya in a statement issued in March 29 has demanded a high-level judicial inquiry into the sudden death of former Uttar Pradesh imprisoned MLA Mukhtar Ansari. Amid the reports of possible custodial murder, a high-level judicial inquiry is needed to unearth the truth. CPIML noted that the magisterial inquiry announced by the government is inadequate.

AILAJ in a statement issued on March 31 condemned the letter issued by a “Lawyers’ Group”, and its immediate endorsement by Prime Minister Modi on the heels of the electoral bonds judgment, as a thinly veiled attack on the Chief Justice of India and the very idea of judicial independence.

Kejriwal, Hemant Soren, Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh and other Opposition Leaders Must be Immediately Released!

The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) strongly condemns the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the alleged excise scam. This marks another chapter of the Modi regime's unbridled emergency and the conspiracy to stifle opposition and democratic voices in the country.

Statement by Central Committee, CPIML Liberation

Condemning the widespread cancellation of Aadhaar cards in West Bengal, a fact-finding team of CPIML noted that the pattern reflects a political conspiracy by the Modi government to ostracise poor from the availing basic services and participating in the democratic process.

On the occasion of International Women's Day, women organisations of Delhi called for Women's Day March on 6th March in Jantar Mantar. Most shamefully, as soon as women started reaching near Jantar Mantar to commemorate women's day and raise voice against the imperialist attack on Palestine, Delhi Police unleashed crackdown and forcibly detained women. Comrade Maimoona, AIDWA, Comrade Punam, PMS, Comrade Maya John, CSW and 100 more women were picked up by Delhi Police and taken to Mandir Marg police station.

The Communist Party has submitted a memorandum to the Chief Election Commissioner of India regarding the publication of the details of criminal cases pending against the candidates in newspapers and the electronic media. This requirement puts in a highly uneven ground for exercising the democratic right to contest in elections because of very high costs incurred in the publication of such information in widely circulated regional and national newspapers and TV channels.

CPIML Bihar state secretary Kunal has strongly condemned the recent amendments in the Criminal Law procedures in Bihar which are nothing but an extension of the mafia-police state of Yogi’s Uttar Pradesh. These amendments are entirely anti-poor and anti-dalit in nature and are being met with widespread opposition from all quarters.

 CPI(ML) Liberation welcomes the much awaited verdict of the Supreme Court striking down the BJP Government's Electoral Bond Scheme as Unconstitutional. Electoral Bonds have been patently anti-democratic and unconstitutional. Hope the Supreme Court now gets the Election Commission to bring to the public domain the details of the corporate funding that has taken place through the unconstitutional Electoral Bonds scheme and retrospectively remove the screen of anonymity from the nexus between corporate power and the BJP, the biggest beneficiary of this unconstitutional scheme.