IPA Special
Only A Joint Struggle Of Farmers And Workers Can Take On Centre
By Prakash Karat The big success of the Bharat bandh called by the farmers’ organisations on December 8 was a display of people’s support and sympathy for the cause of the farmers. The spontaneous response to the bandh call in many places and the support extended to...
Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Dev Is In Serious Trouble Due To Dissidence
By Sagarneel Sinha The internal rebellion in the ruling party of Tripura is refusing to die down. Just two months ago, around 7-8 MLAs from the ruling party flew to Delhi to register their complaint against chief minister Biplab Deb to the party high command. These MLAs included...
Free Market Solution Of Centre Is Against Interests Of Indian Farmers
By Prabhat Patnaik In the context of the on-going country-wide kisan movement for repealing Modi’s three agriculture bills, while an overwhelming majority of commentators have stood with the position taken by the kisans, a few, though not necessarily agreeing with Modi, have raised the question: why shouldn’t agriculture...
Kerala Assembly Speaker In The Eye Of A Storm
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANTHAPURAM: Kerala’s political waters have been muddied further with the Opposition accusing Kerala Assembly Speaker P Sreeramakrishnan of helping the gold smuggling case accused and corruption in running the Assembly. The timing of the allegations against the Speaker is significant. The allegations made...
Ashok Ghelot To Expand His Cabinet In First Week Of January
By Rahil Nora Chopra After Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s allegation that the BJP was conspiring to topple his government, BJP leaders have questioned Gehlot’s ability to lead the Congress. Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat who was in the forefront in attacking Gehlot during the recent crisis in Rajasthan...
Imran Khan’s Talk Of National Reconciliation Has Caused Furore
By Sankar Ray Democratic polity in Pakistan is endangered once again as the Prime Minister Imran Khan suddenly talks of the infamous National Reconciliation Ordinance, introduced by the last dictator-President Pervez Musharaf on 7 October 2007, granting amnesty to politicians, political workers and bureaucrats who were accused...
Detention Of Activist Anand Teltumbde Is A Mockery Of Human Rights
By Niharika Ravi The Human Rights Watch has called the detention by the Indian government of civil rights and Dalit rights activist, Anand Teltumbde as “wrongful” and “politically motivated”. “Indian authorities are using draconian counterterrorism laws against activists simply for criticizing the government or raising their...
Six Million Children Out Of School In India Due To Covid Impact
AFFECTED MOST DURING THE PANDEMIC By B K Chaturvedi The COVID-19 pandemic raging across the globe has led to the closure of schools. In India alone, it has affected the education of nearly 290 million children. Already, there were six million children out of school. This number...
Government Must Implement Swaminathan Report On Farmers
By Nantoo Banerjee It seems the government has lost the trust of farmers. Instead of keeping its promise to expand the list of agricultural products under the ‘minimum support price’ (MSP) system to prevent distress sale of farm produce, the new farm laws threaten to abolish the practice...
Farmers Are Getting All Out Support For Their Just Demands
By Dr Somu The response to the call for Bharat bandh by Samyukt Kisan Morcha — an umbrella body of over 500 farmers’ organisations was over whelming. It was from one and all across the country. In almost all major cities, there was a deserted look as shops...
