Price: Re. 1 ML Update A CPI(ML) Weekly News Magazine Vol. 14 No. 26 21 - 27 JUNE 2011 Nationwide Call to Protest on 26 June, Anniversary of the Emergency Combat Corruption, Resist Repression! Save Democracy, Save India! n 26 June 1975 the then Congress government Oimposed the infamous Emergency, suspending or repression. BJP-ruled states such as Karnataka, all civil liberties, muzzling voices of dissent, jailing Gujarat,not offer Chhattisgarh any credible and resistance Uttarakhand to either are corruptionnotorious opponents and attempting to throttle democracy. for some of the worst instances of corporate plunder This June, 36 years since that black day, we can of natural resources, and for severe repression on experience all the symptoms of an undeclared people’s resistance and crackdown on democratic Emergency. rights. Be it Forbesganj in NDA-ruled Bihar, Bhatta Once again, democratic protests are being out- Parsaul in BSP-ruled Uttar Pradesh, Jagatsinghpur lawed. Spaces of protest are being declared out of in BJD-ruled Odisha or Jaitapur in Congress-ruled bounds. Peaceful protestors are brutally assaulted Maharashtra, people’s movements against corporate and evicted, even in the national capital. People’s land grab and forced eviction are being met with the movements against corporate plunder and land grab same naked police brutality and bullets. declared illegal and their basic democratic right to war on democracy, the ruling class opposition’s formare facing unions intensified of their choice repression. is met Workers’ with victimization strikes are completeWhile the bankruptcy Congress-UPA on the Government question of has combating declared and repression. Voices of conscience who challenge corruption and repression has been exposed. It is state repression and corporate loot are branded up to the people of the country to build and sustain ‘seditious’ and jailed. Mass movements against cor- the movement against the all-pervasive rot of cor- ruption are branded as a threat to democracy in ruption and the all-out assault on our freedom and order to justify repression. democracy. Almost every month, there are fresh revelations of n 26 June this year, remembering the Emergency huge scams involving a nexus between ruling UPA Oand people’s resistance to it, let us pledge to Ministers and private corporations. The oil scam - revealed by the CAG is the latest. The Government, in mocracy. the dock for unprecedented corruption, black money, throw off the yoke of repression and demand de Let us demand that the draconian laws like Se- plunder of the country’s natural resources and drain dition, AFSPA, MCOCA, CSPSA and UAPA, which of the public exchequer, is seeking to silence public anger by intimidating people’s protest. Following should have no place in an independent and the brutal police assault on sleeping protestors are democratic India, be scrapped! Ramlila Grounds in Delhi, UPA Minister Kapil Sibal Let us declare our defiance to all attempts to muz- declared, “Let this be a lesson to everybody.” In this zle the voices of protest! Let us resist and defy each declaration we can hear the footfalls of Emergency. and every attempt to ban popular protests and This is the UPA’s open threat to all forces of struggle place the spaces of protest out of bounds! against corruption, all those who cherish and defend Let the rulers know that people’s aspirations democracy. for liberty, for democracy, for rights, cannot be At the same time, the ruling class ‘opposition’ can- silenced by batons or bullets! Farbisganj Murders: Movement In- Dalits and Adivasis tensifies in Bihar against the Killings in Gujarat Gravely Intensifying the State-wide agitation that the BJP is successfully implement- Attacked by BJP in Bihar demanding punishment to the ing its communal agenda using the An attack on a mass scale was con- killers of four innocent villagers (from Nitish Kumar’s Govt. ducted by the MLA Raman Patkar from minority community) of Bhajanpur in Post-dharna, a CPI(ML) delegation Umargaam constituency in Valsad dis- Forbesganj the CPI(ML) held militant comprising comrades Murtaza Ali, trict on the villagers of Ghoriparha and protest dharnas in Patna and all dis- Nageswar Paswan, Gurudev Das, Gadikparha villages on 13 June 2011. trict headquarters of the State on 15 Lalan Singh and Ramnarayan Singh Around 150-200 goons and BJP mem- June 2011. Through these protest handed over a 6-point demand letter bers, wielding various arms, led by the programmes the Party has demanded to the Bihar CM at the DM’s office. The MLA attacked these villagers, mainly that all accused involved in the heinous memorandum demands compensation Dalits and Adivasis. This resulted in firing including BJP’s councillor Ashok for peasants’ acquired land at current serious injuries to several people who Agrawal, Araria’s District Magistrate, market rate and restoration of the road are now undergoing treatment. These Superintendent of Police and all po- connecting Bhajanpura and Sheetalpu- incidents have already been reported to the District Magistrate and SSP repeat- lice men involved in the murders be ra, apart from the above mentioned edly but no action has been taken so far charged under section 302, arrested demands of the maha-dharna. by them, instead the complainants are immediately and put behind bars. Hundreds of CPI(ML) activists and being harassed by the administrative Agrarian labourers, farmers, stu- members led by comrades Ashok Singh officials too. CPI(ML) Central Commit- dents-youth and women participated (Arrah Dist. Committee member), and tee has given a memorandum to the in huge numbers at all the programmes others sat on dharna in front of the Union Home Minister in Delhi apprising that began with the slogan “Stop the DM’s office. A massive dharna was him of the dangerous situation. Drama of Judicial Enquiry, File Mur- organised at Sasaram led by CPI(ML) A day before this incident, on 12 der Charge against those Involved in State Committee member (SCM) June 2011, MLA Raman Patkar and his Forbesganj Police Firing”. Senior Party Comrade Arun Singh (also ex-MLA). four sons along with his accomplices leaders addressed the dharnas in dif- Dharna in front of DM’s office at Ja- conducted another attack on CPI(ML) ferent towns and cities. hanabad was addressed by CPI(ML) Liberation leader Kapila Ben. She is Addressing the maha-dharna (grand Politburo member Comrade Ram Jatan also continuing to undergo treatment sit-in protest) at Shaheed Bhagat Singh Sharma. Despite heavy rains at Arwal, even now. She was the CPI(ML) can- crossing near Gandhi Maidan in Patna, hundreds of marchers took out a protest didate in last elections. Comrade Saroj Chaubey (Central Com- march demanding punishment to the These are deliberate and organized mittee member, CPIML and AIPWA’s culprits of firing. Hundreds of people political attacks by the leaders of ruling National Vice President) said that two participated in dharna opposite DM’s BJP in Gujarat on CPI(ML) activists in incidents of brutal murders by police in office at Biharsharif. The dharna was order to crush the political opposition and struggles being led by the CPI(ML) Araria in just six months has unmasked led by CPI(ML) SCM Com. Surendra in that district. The attacks are par- the blatantly anti-women and commu- Ram and Mitranand Singh among oth- ticularly targeted against the CPI(ML) nal character of the present Govern- ers. At Gaya too the dharna spot was activists who contested elections at ment. She also mentioned that lives DM’s office where hundreds of people various levels including Parliament, and dignity of Dalit-Muslim women in protested led by District Secretary Com. Assembly, Zila Panchayat and Village JD(U)-BJP rule is completely insecure. Niranjan Kumar and AIPWA leader Panchayats. Comrade KD Yadav (Party CCM) ex- Reeta Barnawal among others. A huge During last elections BJP MLA Ra- posed Govt’s cunning and non-serious dharna was organised at DM’s office in man Patkar and his men regularly har- attitude in declaring judicial enquiry as Siwan which was addressed by SCMs assed and attacked CPI(ML) members it has not taken any action whatsoever and ex-MLAs comrades Amarnath and destroyed party posters, banners, against the perpetrators. Even basic Yadav and Satyadev Ram, Naimuddin and other election materials. These relief has not been extended to the Ansari and Amarjeet Kushwaha among incidents were duly reported to the victims, rather false cases has been others. The leaders here alleged that police and election officials and judi- slapped on hundreds of common vil- Nitish Kumar has becom a puppet in cial process is still going on for these lagers. He fully justified the demands the hands of rioting BJP. At Bettiah a crimes. These incidents provide the of the villagers. Dozens of other senior protest march was held led by Party background for current spree of attacks Party leaders were also present at the leader Birendra Gupta. Despite inces- and intimidation. The ruling party there maha-dharna in Patna. The speakers sant rains at Bhagalpur the Party held is trying to muzzle the voices of political dissent by force and bloodshed. lambasted the Nitish Govt. for its ever the dharna. When CPI(ML)'s Valsad district increasing bureaucratic, undemocratic Dharnas were also held at DM’s committee Secretary Laxman Vadia and anti-people character completely offices in Muzaffarpur, Darbhanga, Sa- approached the Valsad DSP, Col- contrary to its pretensions of good- mastipur, Araria, Nawada, Begusarai, lector and Umargaam police station governance. In present Govt. the mon- Gopalganj, Chhapra, Bhabhua and for help and to seek justice, he was eybags and power-brokers are having other places demanding speedy justice not heard and arrogantly dismissed.