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DHARNA AGAINST REPRESSION OF PEOPLE OF KASHMIR |
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Written by Janhastakshep
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Saturday, 30 August 2008 |
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Press Release by Janhastakshep, PUCL & PUDR Dated 30.8.2008 Hundreds of intellectuals, students, media persons and activists sat on a Dharna today at Jantar Mantar by Janhastakshep, PUCL and PUDR protesting against the crackdowns on non-violent protests by the people in Jammu & Kashmir. Nearly three month long agitation and counter agitation in Jammu and Kashmir has brought home the extremely serious situation in J&K. In two days on August 11 and 12 Indian security forces shot dead thirty two people in Kashmir valley. Unrelenting indefinite curfew ahs been imposed in the whole of the valley since the 24th of this month and at least eight people have been killed by the security forces during this period. Already reeling under economic blockade the imposition of curfew is making it worse with even hospitals not being allowed to function fully and attacks on ambulances and injured people. Food is in short supply, water and electricity disrupted and no one is allowed to move about even with curfew passes. There are restrictions placed on media. Even the media persons have been brutally thrashed by security forces. The Kashmir Valley has seen massive outpouring of people against the blockade, for their democratic rights, aspirations and freedom. The people of the state groan under black laws like AFSPA and Disturbed Areas Act, while unarmed people are fired upon even as they gather to only attend the funeral of their leader killed in firing by armed forces. In Jammu by Hindu communal forces, chiefly led by Hindutva brigade of RSS-BJP and Congress, are conducting what is essentially an anti-Kashmir agitation. There is a sort of competition between these two leading parties of Indian ruling classes in harnessing majority Hindu chauvinism. Their top leaders in Jammu are participating in blockade while the Congress led UPA has gone into a denial mode on the fact of blockade despite extensive proof of the same. The state failed to lift the economic blockade and protect victims of mob violence for more than a month. Reports suggest that drivers and passengers of Kashmiri origin had been dragged out and beaten on the highway, guarded ostensibly by the Indian army. The economic blockade had severely affected the life in the valley over a month and a half. Thus the right to life of people in the valley was imperiled by it. The message being conveyed was that Indian State is unmindful of even the physical well-being of the people in Kashmir. The procession towards Muzaffarabad on August 11 was a consequence of this blockade imposed on the valley by the Jammu agitators. And paradoxically it is in line with the Government of India’s own promise of opening the LOC for trade. While Central Govt. said it was not opposed to the opening, its armed forced killed 6 persons including a top leader of Hurriyat Conference. It is instructive that the valley based Anti Land Transfer Committee leaders went and reassured yatris of their being honoured guests, organized langars for the yatris and they were provided free boarding in hotels and house boats. It is also worth remembering that during this entire agitation, the yatra carried on and yatris did not encounter threats of the kind faced by Kashmiris in Jammu, Kathua and Udhampur, the hindu majority districts. Many intellectuals, activists, human rights activists expressed their concern at the gross violation of human rights of the people of Kashmir and brutal repression unleashed by state on the people of Kashmir. We demand that : - Free movement of people and goods on the Srinagar Jammu Highway be ensured and road to Mazaffarabad be opened for trade forthwith.
- Mr. Gulam Nabi Azad, Mufti Mohd. and ex-Governor Sinha should be tried for fanning communal passions and generating the present controversy by transferring land against the law of the state.
- Curfew should be lifted and repression on people of Kashmir and media persons must be stopped. Register cases against those responsible for attacks on injured people, ambulances and hospitals. All Black Laws like AFSPA and Disturbed Areas Act should be repealed and armed forces should be withdrawn.
- We also demand from the Govt. to open dialogue with real representatives of the people of Jammu & Kashmir and solve the problem by respecting the democratic aspiration of the people of Jammu & Kashmir.
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Greater NOIDA (UP) : Killing peasants to enrich Corporates |
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Written by Janhastakshep
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Sunday, 17 August 2008 |
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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 16th August 2008. On 14th 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 13th 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. |
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CPI(ML) Demonstration against India-US Nuclear Deal |
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Written by cpimlnd
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Tuesday, 15 July 2008 |
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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. |
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Written by cpimlnd
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Monday, 30 June 2008 |
PRESS PRELEASE 21.06.2008
SUPPORT GORKHALAND
The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Lenin ist) New Democracy staged a protest at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi on 21st June 2008 in support of the demand for Gorkhaland.
Speaking on the occassion, party leaders criticised the deployment of troops in the region to suppress the movement and the use of section 144 when the protestors were using peaceful relay hunger strike to make their point.
The party leaders pointed out that the area for which a seperate State was being demanded had never originally been a part of West Bengal. The area under question took shape when the British annexed parts of Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim in 1866. It was kept by the British as an "excluded area" till 1935 and "partially excluded area" till 1947 and it was given to the state of West Bengal only after 1947, they contended.
They argued that when so many other states had been re-organized since 1947, the demand for Gorkhaland should not be treated as an "untouchable topic". Leaders of the undivided Communist Party of India had supported the demand for "Gorkhastan" which was now being referred to as "Gorkhaland", the party leaders pointed out. According to CPI(ML) New Democracy, the reason why the State of West Bengal did not want to part with this region was its tremendous economic potential. Tea, Tourism and Timber industries of the area earn enormous revenues which are not even partially put for development of the area, which remains poor and backward.
Delhi Committee CPI(ML) New Democracy condemns the CPM's attempt to subvert the agitation specially by trying to whip up Bengali chauvinism to divide the people living in the Gorkhaland area.
CPI(ML) New Democracy supports the demand for Gorkhaland and demands that the army be called off and democratic rights be restored. |
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