February 17, 2013
Sunday, February 24, 2013
AS the campaign for the elections to the Tripura state assembly was ending, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi thundered that CPI(M) will be ousted from 'Hindustan'. Indeed history is repeating itself. During the 1986 elections to the West Bengal state assembly, the then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi notoriously declared that “Calcutta is a dying city”. Not only did the Left Front sweep those elections, but it continued to win the next four elections with a two-thirds majority.
Friday, February 22, 2013
THE Gender Council of the Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) has condemned the attempt made by union minister Vayalar Ravi to browbeat a young woman reporter who asked him some questions regarding the Suryanelli rape case. The Gender Council pointed out that the minister’s aggressive counter questions to TV journalist Aishwarya Sumithran, were both personal and sexist. His apology that the remark was only a jest and that the journalist is like a granddaughter to him is, in itself, patronising, the council added.
IMAGES of the Delhi Police lobbing teargas shells and water canons at protesters at India gate agitating against the gang rape of a young girl on a Sunday, December 22 2012 are embedded deep in the nation’s psyche largely the courtesy of our omnipresent twenty four seven news networks, sharpened further by the ever-prescient discussions on the 9 p m Newshour. Police evacuated the agitated demonstrators as they marched to Raisina Hill and Sonia Gandhi’s residence in the best way they know how, and the nation bemoaned at the refusal of our political class to blink.
Below we publish the text of the message of greetings sent by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) to the 15th congress of the Communist Party of Russian Federation (CPRF), to be held on February 23 and 24, 2013, in Moscow. Sitaram Yechury, Polit Bureau member, is attending the congress as a fraternal delegate from the CPI(M).
Left MPs Stage Dharna to Support Strike Members of parliament belonging to the Left parties staged a protest dharna in the Parliament House premises on February 21, the second day of the all-India strike. In protest, they also boycotted the president's customary address to the joint session of parliament on the first day of budget session.
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