Mainstream Weekly

The Politics of Exclusion: Disenfranchising Bihar

D Raja — 2025-07-19T10:03:48Z

The Election Commission of India has launched a sweeping Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar. Though presented as a legitimate administrative effort to update voter data ahead of the Assembly elections, the move has attracted sharp social criticism and legal challenges. The Commission has initiated door-to-door verification of voter records across the state, demanding submission of multiple documents including personal and parental proof of age and residence, (…)

- 2025

Statistics & Starvation: Expose the Myth of Modi

D Raja — 2025-06-07T08:35:05Z

India is being paraded on global and national platforms as the world

- 2025

Global Right-Wing Consolidation and the Fight? | D. Raja

D Raja — 2025-03-15T07:10:16Z

More than a century back, Vladimir Lenin described Imperialism as the highest state of capitalism, an outcome of the decay in capitalism. His analysis stands the test of time when we see a crisis-ridden capitalist order, which has failed to improve lives globally, resorting to desperate measures to ensure its survival, no matter what happens to the humanity. Consolidation of right-wing and far-right political forces globally in the tumultuous period post the financial meltdown of late-2000s (…)

- 2025

Letter to Prime Minister Modi to form a dedicated cell to help Indian citizens abroad or citizens travelling abroad | D Raja

D Raja — 2024-07-12T20:23:52Z

Communist Party of India
New Delhi,
July 10, 2024
To,
Shri Narendra Modi,
Hon'ble Prime Minister,
Government of India,
South Block, New Delhi.
Sub: Request to form a dedicated cell to help Indian citizens abroad or citizens travelling abroad
Respected Prime Minister Modi ji,
The number of Indian students studying abroad as well as Indians working outside India have increased significantly. Similarly, the number of Indians travelling abroad for various purposes has also (…)

- 2024

One Nation, One Election: No Solution to Ailments of Present Electoral System I D Raja

D Raja — 2023-09-29T23:44:02Z

The making of the Constitution commenced with a clear awareness of the immense diversity of our country and the need to address and accommodate the same while upholding the principles of justice and equality. The road towards democracy was embarked upon with a strong sense of representation and recognition. Universal adult franchise was one of the early expressions of this vision.
Similarly, a clear division of subjects between the Union and state governments was designed to aid the (…)

- 2023

The Republic of the Constitution and Modi's India | D Raja

D Raja — 2023-01-21T01:28:00Z

When the Indian republic inaugurated itself on the 26th of January 1950, it was a major historic transformation in our nation's journey towards the emancipation of its masses. After getting itself free from colonial clutches, India embarked on a journey of building a society that our freedom fighters sacrificed their lives for. That society was to build on the premise of liberty, equality, fraternity and justice as enshrined in the Preamble of our Constitution. The enactment of the (…)

- 2023

Celebrate Birth Centenary of Com. Geeta Mukherjee | D Raja

D Raja — 2023-01-06T23:01:47Z

New Delhi, January 5, 2023 Dear Comrades,
January 8, 2023 marks the beginning of the birth centenary of Com. Geeta Mukerjee, an outstanding communist leader and an able Parliamentarian. She was fondly called as Geetadi all over the country.
Com. Geetadi was born on January 8, 1924 in Kolkata (Calcutta). She was married to Com. Biswanath Mukherjee on November 8, 1942 who was a legendary communist leader and secretary of the West Bengal state unit of the Party.
Com. Geetadi was student (…)

- 2023

Foundations of Indian Republic De-based: The Case of Federalism | D Raja

D Raja — 2022-01-21T22:41:06Z

by D Raja *
We have entered the 72nd year of our Constitution's coming into force declaring India a Sovereign Democratic Republic. This is also the 75th year of gaining independence from the British colonialism. The government of the day is observing it as ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav'. The celebrations are already mired in controversy as the ruling regime is trying to further its communal agenda by falsifying and distorting history.
The RSS and its outfits, which had no role in the freedom (…)

- 2022

Tasks Before the Left Today | D. Raja

D Raja — 2021-09-17T20:18:24Z

The Communist movement in India is almost a century old now and remains an important actor in the Indian political scene. From fighting the British imperialists to the inequalities of the Indian society, the Communist Left is one force which was at the forefront of these struggles and gave it a progressive ideological shape. After Independence too, through its leadership of the working class, peasant, youth, students and women's movements it continued to be a major progressive force and (…)

- 2021

Learning from Lenin: At 150, the leader of the October Revolution has lessons for a post-Covid world

D Raja — 2020-04-25T10:08:44Z

When we pay tributes to Lenin, we should not fail to think about ways to liberate people from all kinds of exploitations and enslavement.
April 22, 2020, marks the 150th birth anniversary of V I Lenin. He was one of the greatest theoreticians of Left politics after Karl Marx. He was an excellent strategist and tactician, who led the first socialist revolution in 1917, in Russia. He was the head of the first socialist country and founder of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). (…)

- 2020