2024

Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD)
Date: 23.07.2024
PRESS RELEASE
Reacting to the health budget Dr Arun Mitra – President Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) has said that the allocation to health is far away from meeting the people’s health needs. The allocation for health is only 89287 cores rupees out of a total budget of 48.21 lakh crore rupees. This means health has been allocated only 1.8% of the total budget. If we calculate the total amount of budget (…)

Samyukt Kisan Morcha
Press Note issued in the virtual press conference
24th July 2024, New Delhi
Union Budget 2024-25 for Corporatisation of Agriculture
Call for Burning Copies of the Budget in Villages
Widest Unity of Farmers, Workers, Youth- Need of the Hour
Appeals State Governments and Political Parties to fight policy of Power Centralisation in Agriculture, Cooperation to Seize the Rights of States
No MSP@C2+50%, No Minimum Wage, No Wage Hike in MGNREGS
Cut in (…)

Communist Party of India
Press Release
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued the following statement today (on July 22, 2024):
CPI welcomes Supreme Court’s interim stay on the highly-discriminatory and anti-constitutional orders issued by many BJP-ruled states asking vendors along the routes of Kanwar Yatras to display the names of owners and employees.
Our Constitution envisaged a society with equality for all. The RSS’ ideology stands opposite to the (…)

New Trade Union Initiative (NTUI)
Yesterday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, told the country that the Union Budget for the ongoing financial year 2024-25 would lay the economic foundations for the next 5 years and the direction for the next 25, until we got to his goal of ‘Viksit Bharat’. Today’s Union Budget 2024-25 (BS) presented to parliament was so underwhelming that Mr. Modi felt the need to make a thirty-minute national broadcast, to explain to us what it was all about.
The budget (…)

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Of Law And Life by Upendra Baxi
in conversation with Arvind Narrain, Lawrence Liang, Sitharamam Kakarala, Sruti Chaganti
Orient BlackSwan 2024 Pages 582 | Price Rs.2300/-
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The Book: OF LAW AND LIFE: Upendra Baxi in conversation with Arvind Narrain, Lawrence Liang, Sitharamam Kakarala, Sruti Chaganti is a unique book. It has inaugurated radically new genre which straddles rich and varied forms. It is certainly not an (…)

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Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday Massacre: Lessons for the International Community
by Rohan Gunaratna
Penguin Books Pages: lxxvi + 238 Price: Singapore$ 28.90 __0__
It was sheer incompetence at the highest level of governance that helped the Islamic State to devastate Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday in 2019, slaughtering 275 people and injuring almost 600. The suicide bombings were the worst terrorist onslaught by the IS outside the Iraqi and (…)

To mark 23rd July birth anniversary of Azad
Two names are most evocative names among Indian revolutionaries of freedom struggle. Both were comrade in arms. Chandershekhar Azad was the Commander-in-chief of Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA), who was named as Balraj in Bhagat Singh handwritten posters on the assassination of Lahore ASP, J P Saunders. Another significant document-Philosophy of the Bomb. Authored mainly by Bhagwati Charan Vohra but improvised with Azad (…)

* Farmers’ Movement and Save Constitution Campaign Impact Haryana General Election Results 2024 in Big Way | Mahabir Jaglan
* Lok Sabha and the Political Under-Representation of Women from Kerala | Sonu Vincent
* Relative Economic Performance of UPA and NDA Governments | Ajit Kumar Singh
* Exam debate betrays India’s next generation of leaders | Deepanshu Mohan
* Authoritarianism and Self-Creation | Silas Crane

Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 20, 2024
India’s constitution makes no distinction between citizens based on region, religion, identity, language, colour, caste and gender. This universal logic of equality between citizens need be the guiding principle for all governments, whether local, regional or national that get elected across India. Unfortunately there have been many instances of demands across different regions to give priority to ‘locals’ or natives’ as opposed to outsiders (…)

Haryana has 10 Loksabha seats where Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) contested all 10 seats, whereas, Congress contested 9 seats as a dominant alliance partner of Aam Adami Party under the umbrella of Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) in general election 2024. The result shows that both main national parties, BJP and Congress, win 5 parliamentary seats each. In terms of vote share also there is not much difference between the two, as Congress led alliance has got 47.6 (…)