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CPI-M not to forge alliance with Cong in West Bengal

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New Delhi: Rejecting the West Bengal state unit’s demand, the CPI(M) Central Committee has decided not to form an alliance with the Congress in West Bengal.

The party, however, has directed the West Bengal state unit to do efforts to bring down the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government in the Assembly election.

“There will not be any political alliance with the Congress in West Bengal,” a central committee member told Madhyamam Online.

The West Bengal state committee of the CPI (M) had decided to join hands with Congress in the coming Assembly election and left it for the Central Committee to ratify the move.

(Agencies)

Ruckus in Lok Sabha as CPI-M nails Rajnath’s ‘first Hindu ruler after 800 years’ remark

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New Delhi: There was uproar in the Lok Sabha on Monday after CPI(M) leader Mohammed Salim targetted Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh for allegedly describing Prime Minister as India’s ‘first Hindu ruler after 800 years’.

“I was quoting from a magazine. If Rajnath Singh is denying it, then let him send a legal notice to the publication,” said Salim.

“Home Minister Rajnath Singh said that for first time in 800 years, a Hindu has become India’s PM,” he added.

Salim further quoted Rajnath Singh, as saying in that article, that “after Prithviraj Chauhan, we have a Hindu ruler after 800 years.”

Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Saugata Roy said, “It is true that notice should be given. Outlook magazine is dated November 16, two weeks have passed. If it was not true, home minister should have taken note and issued a denial letter. Why did he not do it?

The Home Minister, on his part, expressed his disappointment over the CPI (M) leader’s remark, saying he has never been hurt as much as today in his entire parliamentary career.

“If a Home Minister gives such a statement, then, he should not be in such a position,” he added.

The Lok Sabha is presently holding a debate on the situation arising out of incidents of intolerance in the country under rule 193.

(Agencies)

Bias against Muslims on death penalty: Prakash Karat

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New Delhi: CPI(M) politburo member Prakash Karat Thursday said there was a bias against the Muslims in the case of execution of the death penalty in the country.

“There is a bias and an increasing feeling against the Muslims in the case of execution of the death penalty in the country,” Karat told a news channel.

“Three persons, including Yakub Mamon, were hanged till death in India in the last three years. All of them were Muslims. The death sentences of others were commuted or their mercy petitions are pending,” he said.

(Agencies)

Pursue Hashimpura massacre case in higher court: CPI-M

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New Delhi: The CPI-M on Monday said the acquittal of all the 16 accused in the massacre of 42 Muslims at Hashimpura in Uttar Pradesh in 1987 should be pursued in the higher court.

“The acquittal by a Delhi court of all the 16 accused in the Hashimpura (Meerut) massacre has angered those who had wanted to see that justice is done in this police atrocity,” it said in a statement.

“The acquittal due to insufficient evidence highlights the callous manner in which the prosecution of those guilty for communal killings are being conducted,” the Communist Party of India-Marxist said.

The party demanded that the verdict be appealed and the case “strongly pursued” in the higher court.

Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) personnel rounded up the 42 Muslims from Hashimpura locality in Meerut on May 22, 1987 during Hindu-Muslim riots, shot them dead and dumped their bodies in water canals.

This triggered a long legal battle in courts. On Saturday, a lower court in Delhi acquitted all the surviving accused for lack of evidence.

(IANS)

Prakash Karat calls for broad platform against communal forces

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Alappuzha: CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat Friday said a broad platform should be formed against communal forces in the country.

Addressing the opening session of the 21st state conference of the CPI(M) here, Karat dubbed the Narendra Modi government as a joint enterprise of the RSS and BJP.

He also accused the Centre of launching a ‘right wing offensive” in the country to serve the interests of corporates and Hindutva forces.

“The Modi government with bypassing Parliament by bringing in a spate of ordinances and hiding from the people the details of the defence framework agreement with the United States,” he said.

He also expressed concern over the attacks on minorities and growing intolerance towards freedom of expression in the realms of art and culture.

“Within the short period of nine months of the Modi Government it is clear that our country is witnessing a right wing offensive. This right wing offensive is driven by two major forces. One, the corporates and big business groups and the other RSS-led Hindutva.”

“While the corporates were pushing for aggressively pursuing the neo-liberal policies, RSS and the Hindutva forces were pushing their communal agenda,” the CPI(M) leader said.

“We have a government which is a joint enterprise of the BJP and the RSS” and this had become amply clear with the formation of a co-ordination panel between the two.

“We have a situation where the RSS is not only running and guiding the BJP, but also providing directions and guidance to run the Government,” he said.

In a speech that targeted entirely the saffron outfits largely sparing Congress and other parties, Karat said the ordinances, including that pertaining to the land acquisition, promulgated by the government exposed its “right wing character.”

While calling for strengthening Left unity, Karat avoided mention of the the flare-up in the feud between the party’s state leadership and veteran leader V S Achuthanandan on the eve of the state conference.

However, the issue is expected to come up prominently during the deliberations during the conference, which will conclude on February 23.

For the CPI(M) state conference, held every three years, marks the culmination of an elaborate inner-party democratic exercise, staring from branch to the state level, ahead of the party Congress to be held in Vishakhapatnam in April.

Despite the wordy showdown between state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan and V S Achuthanandan, the latter hoisted the party flag marking the beginning of proceedings.

(Agencies)

Left parties to start countrywide stir today

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Kolkata: Six Left parties will from Monday begin a countrywide mass movement in support of their nine-point demand, including stopping introduction of RSS and Hindutva ideologies in education and preventing FDI in insurance sector.

The six parties met here on Sunday to finalise details of the the week-long agitation slated to end on December 14.

The outfits – Communist Party of India-Marxist, Communist Party of India, Revolutionary Socialist Party, Forward Bloc, Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) and Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist (Liberation) – are also railing against the spread of communal violence in the name of ‘love jihad’ and encroachment of the rights of minorities.

Briefing media persons after the deliberations, West Bengal’s opposition Left Front chairman and CPI-M politburo member Biman Bose said 11 allied parties in the state would also take part in the movement.

Street corners, sit-ins, and other forms of protests would be organised in all the districts of the state.

A demonstration will be held at the Y Channel in the city hub on December 11 on the demands.

(With IANS inputs)

CPI-ML booklet outlines western UP’s communal scene

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Lucknow: The Communist Party of India-ML Saturday released an exhaustive report as a 32-page booklet on the communal situation in western Uttar Pradesh.

The booklet titled “Paschimi Uttar Pradesh: Sampradayik Fasivaad ki nayi Prayogshala CPI(ML) ki tathyatmak padtaal” (Western UP: the new laboratory of communal fascism — a factual account) accuses the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of inciting communal passions in western UP in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections earlier this year.

Releasing the booklet at the UP Press Club, senior Left leader and CPI-M politburo member Mohd. Salim said the BJP was trying to foment similar passions “with renewed energy” in wake of its Mission 2017 when assembly polls will be held.

He accused the BJP of inciting people over small rumours and frivilous incidents and giving them a communal tinge.

Salim said: “The BJP under directions from the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh is out in a planned way to destroy the social fabric of the country and state, as a result of which communal hatred is making serious inroads in western UP.”

Citing “Love Jihad” and religious conversions as examples of the BJP agenda, the Left leader added that after the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government took over in Delhi, communal incidents have gone up in many parts of the country.

He said that the CPI-ML had undertaken a detailed fact-finding mission in western UP to get to the bottom of the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots that killed 63 and displaced several thousands.

Salim said he himself, All India Kisan Mahasabha state president Jay Prakash Narain and state committee member Ramayan Ram were tasked to carry out the scrutiny.

The booklet, he added, was a product of this probe. Earlier the CPI-ML had also released a booklet based on the criminal and political conspiracy behind the Muzaffarnagar riots.

(IANS)

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