2021

Communist Party of India
June 29, 2021 Press Release
Communist Party of India general secretary D Raja issued the following statement today (on June 29, 2021) on behalf of the National Secretariat of the Party saying that the stimulus package announced by the finance minister on June 28 will not boost demand:
The Communist Party of India firmly believes that the stimulus package announced by Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on June 28 will not boost demand which is essential (…)

All India Congress Committee - Communication Department 24, Akbar Road, New Delhi - 110 011
Excerpt from Press Briefing 28 June 2021
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Prof. Gourav Vallabh said - Modi Government Has Failed the People, Has No Right to Rule
Modi Government has Insulted the Deceased and Weakened our fight Against Covid
Our nation has been fighting the deadly Corona virus for the last 16 months now. So far, close to 4 lakh people have lost their lives and more than 3 crore people have been (…)

All India Trade Union Congress
Press Release
The following statement was issued to the press by Ms Amarjeet Kaur, General Secretary, AITUC today on 30th June 2021.
AITUC CONGRATULATES WORKERS OF STEEL INDUSTRY FOR SUCCESSFUL STRIKE ACTION
AITUC congratulates the workers from the steel industry for holding successful strike in the manufacturing/engineering as well as in mining areas to press upon for the wage-negotiations and against the government policy of disinvestment and (…)

* Our Nation, Our Constitution: A Layperson’s understanding | S G Vombatkere
* On Restoring Growth of Indian Economy | Sarma & Sunder
* Afghan Ghani makes farewell call on Biden | M K Bhadrakumar

Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 26, 2021
As we write this, we hear some among India’s ruling party (from the BJP - or from RSS) present themselves as people who fought for democracy during the days of the emergency declared by Indira Gandhi in 1975. Forty-six years on we can confidently say that members of the RSS and the Jan Sangh who may have faced a prison term during the emergency are no democrats. Being a victim doesn’t turn you into democrats. They represent an authoritarian (…)

IMPRESSIONS
"Confronted with catastrophe, the state has melted away in India. The public, overwhelmed with anguish at death on so vast a scale, has been flabbergasted by repeated revelations of the Government’s incompetence."
What devastating words. No one in India would have the courage to be so sharp and specific. The Economist was not only blunt; it published figures Indian authorities seem to hide. According to the Economist’s global Covid tracker, India records 6,000 to (…)

Nation = People + Country + Constitution
A nation is the synergetic sum of a country’s people with their social and cultural resources, who live within the boundaries of the country with its natural and economic resources, and the rules by which the people live and work. The “rule book” for India is the Constitution of India. It was the product of a solemn resolution of the people of newly-independent India. It defined Independent India as a sovereign, democratic Republic. The (…)

by Atul Sarma & Shyam Sunder*
In one of her interviews with the media around the release of the fourth quarter growth of 2020-21 at 1.6% by the NSO, the Finance Minister asserted that all that need to be done for restoring growth has already been done in terms of budget proposals under Union Budget 2021-22 and three tranches under Atmanirbhar Bharat.
Such complacency underrates several facts. First, there has been a secular decline in growth since the first quarter of 2018-19. GDP (…)

June 25, 2021
When the anointed king receives his vassal formally at his durbar for the first time, it is a moment of truth conveying that the latter’s obeisance is noted, while the vassal hopes to claim legitimacy.
A US president is due to receive Afghan president Ashraf Ghani in the White House on Friday after a gap of some 6 years. The symbolism is profound: Ghani is in Washington, as the Taliban is tightening its noose on Kabul. On Thursday, Ghani was closeted with the CIA Director (…)

by Imran Khan*
Pakistan is ready to be a partner for peace in Afghanistan with the United States — but as U.S. troops withdraw, we will avoid risking further conflict.
Our countries have the same interest in that long-suffering country: a political settlement, stability, economic development and the denial of any haven for terrorists. We oppose any military takeover of Afghanistan, which will lead only to decades of civil war, as the Taliban cannot win over the whole of the country, and (…)