Delhi Committee of CPI(ML) New Democracy organized a program at Jantar Mantar from 1130 onwards to demand that the blockade of Kashmir be lifted forthwith, curfew be lifted and firing and repression by armed forces in J&K on common people be stopped immediately. Condemning the communal conspiracies of rulers and ruling class parties against the people of Jammu and Kashmir the party demanded that ex-CM Azad, Mufti and ex-Governor Sinha be prosecuted.

Students, working class leaders, youth and several intellectuals took part in the protest. The protestors held posters displaying their demands.

Speakers condemned the rulers of J&K –the trimuverate of Azad, Mufti and Sinha- for blatantly and insensitively creating a situation where the people of Kashmir feel threatened over their right to their own land. As it is, the ruling classes of India have trampled underfoot the democratic aspirations of the people of Kashmir and subjected them to severe repression and blatant violations of democratic rights. Now, after literally forcing the Kashmiri people to take to the streets to defend their rights to their land, the ruling class parties have pitted the people of Jammu against them in a bid to fan communal divisions among the people. People in all parts of the state are bearing the brunt of armed forces repression, especially the people of the Kashmir Valley.

The issue, which has baselessly been projected at being at stake, is the Amarnath Yatra which has been on for over a century, with arrangements being made by the Government of Kashmir and local Kashmiri Muslims aiding the pilgrims. People of the entire country know this to be the fact which is why it makes no sense for any organisation in Jammu to  say they are fighting for the rights of Hindu pilgrims-it is crystal clear that leaders of Congress and BJP are fanning and leading the so called reaction in Jammu.

To add fuel to the fire, the government of India is busy denying the fact of economic blockade of Kashmir, even as it’s Defence Minister offers assurances that fruits will be purchased and consumed by ‘school children and CRPF’! – where is there need of such steps if no blockade exists? In fact, an all out attempt is on by the government to alienate and isolate the people of the Valley, further curb their democratic space and communalize the entire situation-in which it is being ably assisted by the BJP.

Com. Aparna (Delhi Party Secretary), Dr. Mrigank (Pres. Naujawan Bharat Sabha), Ms. Poonam Kaushik (Gen Secy. Pragatisheel Mahila Sanghatan), Dr.Animesh Das (President IFTU, Delhi) and known intellectuals like, Ish Mishra, Tapan Bose, Gautam Navlakha and Mir Imtiaz addressed the gathering.

CPI(ML) New Democracy demands the immediate lifting of economic blockade of Kashmir, lifting of curfew and stop to repression of people of J&K and prosecution of Azad-Mufti and Sinha.

The drive of Indian ruling classes to forcibly take away the land of peasants and hand it over to foreign & Indian big companies and building Mafia took another violent turn on August 14, 2008 in the vicinity of the capital Delhi, where the trigger-happy police of UP led by Ms. Mayawati, the new icon for the revisionist left, killed five peasant activists in the brutal firing. Whatever the party of ruling classes in power, the land-grabbing of the peasants under the colonial Land Acquisition 1894, is taking ominous turn through length and breadth of the country. The recent mayhem in Greater Noida has added one more  bloody chapter to the drive of the ruling classes towards ‘development’ on the corpses of peasantry and poor people and added one more chapter to the glorious resistance by the peasantry to this bloody drive. Ghodi Bachheda and other villages of Greater Noida have been added to the likes of Kalinganagar, Nandigram, Singur, Raigarh, Erasama, Bajheda Khurd and a number of others where peasants have challenged the bloody might of the rulers. With the bodies of martyred peasants laid in this battle, the vultures of ruling classes have come out yet again to lead their anger away from their patrons. These servitors of corporates, both foreign and domestic, are coming out to prey upon the dead and dull the living. But the saga of peasant struggles against forcible land acquisition continues to unfold with determination and continuity as a part of the Indian people’s struggle against imperialism and domestic reactionaries.

We are here reproducing a report released by Jan Hastakshep, Campaign Against Fascist Designs, prepared by its team after a visit to the villages and interacting with villagers. 

New Delhi 16^th August 2008.  On 14^th August 2008 a two member Janhastakshep fact finding team of Dr. Ish Mishra, and Sachin Singh visited Ghodi-Bacheda village in Greater NOIDA, to meet with the farmers who had been fired upon by the U.P. police a day earlier on 13^th Aug 2008. The farmers were shot and beaten by the U.P. Police while demanding a higher rate of compensation for their agricultural lands which was being acquired by the U.P. government for “infrastructure projects”, including industries and an international airport, which has now been shelved.

CPI(ML) New Democracy demands:

1.            The scrapping of the nuclear deal and resignation of Manmohan Singh.

2.            No to strategic tie up with US imperialism

3.            Parties opposing the deal give commitment to scrap the deal when in direct or indirect power

On July 12, 2008 at 1130 AM, activists from Delhi Committee of CPI(ML) New Democracy held a demonstration at Parliament Street New Delhi against the Manmohan Singh led UPA Government’s racing to finalize the anti-national India-US Nuclear Deal. This deal is one more step towards tying India to the apron strings of US strategic interests and US imperialism’s foreign policy. The protestors burnt an effigy of Manmohan Singh and raised slogans of “Manmohan-Sonia traitors and liars!” “Manmohan Singh- Resign!” and “No to strategic tie up with America!”

Secretary of Delhi State party, Com. Aparna spoke about, how the Manmohan Singh government is trying to reduce the entire debate on the very serious issues raised by the US-India Nuclear deal to merely a case of borderline numbers in Parliament. Not only does it mean that US imperialism is going to decide India’s nuclear policy, by tying it to American strategic designs; it is riding rough shod over the Indian people’s proud history of anti imperialist struggles. The need of the hour is to mobilize people of the country to oppose both the nuclear deal and the strategic tie up with America.

Dr. Mrigank, (President, Naujawan Bharat Sabha) spoke about the huge costs of India to separate civilian and military facilities, it invests the US with the right to scrap the deal with return of all facilities and no compensation of our costs of separation if the US President decrees India’s actions are hostile to its foreign policy, or will further India’s own nuclear military programme.