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Let us All Learn from Comrade Mahendra Singh
— Dipankar Bhattacharya
HIS existence posed a constant challenge to the BJP’s brutal rule in Jharkhand. Now his martyrdom has hit the last nail into the coffin of communal-fascist forces in the state. On 16 January, 2005, the day after he had filed his nomination to seek re-election for the fourth successive term from Bagodar Assembly constituency of Giridih district in Jharkhand, Comrade Mahendra Prasad Singh was gunned down by hired assassins just when he had finished addressing a village election meeting. “Yes, I am Mahendra Singh”, he assured his assassins..Full text
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Comrade Mahendra Singh, You Will Always Live In the Struggles and Aspirations of the People of Jharkhand and India!
COMRADE MAHENDRA SINGH dedicated his book of poems, Keemat Chukati Zindagi, to “All those/ who lived/ and died/ for love and liberation”. Truly, Mahendra Singh himself, in life and death, was passionately committed to his love for struggling people, and to striving for their liberation.... Full text |
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Tens of thousands bid farewell to their beloved leader
[Excerpts from a description of Mahendra Singh’s funeral by Prabhat Khabhar editor Harivansh]
Whoever has seen this crowd will never forget the surging mass of people who had come to bid their last farewell to MLA Mahendra Singh. Long queues of thousands, women-children-old people, some weeping bitterly and others silent, …..
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CONDOLENCE RESOLUTION
(Pledge taken in a massive Sankalp Sabha held at Bagodar Training College Grounds, Giridih on 18 January, 2005)
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SP Deepak Verma, the Coal Mafia and BJP State Government: The Unholy Nexus Behind Comrade Mahendra’s Murder
Deepak Verma, while he was SP, Hazaribagh, had turned a zonal commander of the Jharkhand Sangharsh Jan Mukti Morcha, one Umesh Ojha into a police informer, and with his help had raided an MCC hideout and confiscated a booty of Rs. 85 lakh from the MCC. The lion’s share of this booty was appropriated by Deepak Varma. But when Umesh asked for his share (10%) as promised by Deepak Varma, he was kidnapped from Subodh Line Hotel, Padma where he had been called to collect the prize money, and, with the help of a subordinate police officer (Barhi P.S. case 177/02), Deepak Varma shot Umesh dead at point-blank range.
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Some Questions Raised by the Prashant Sahai Murder
- Mahendra Prasad Singh
[Ed. note: Mahendra Prasad Singh had tirelessly raised the issue of Deepak Verma’s involvement in the Prashant Sahai murder, not only in the Assembly, but in meetings, press conferences, as well as in several articles in various newspapers and magazines. We carry one of these articles, written by him for Prabhat Khabar, 13. 9. 04.]....Full text
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Grief, Anger and Resolve:
Nationwide Protests Against the Murder
Within hours of this ghastly murder, the news spread and engulfed whole of the party with deep sense of grief. Many units immediately protested and demanded arrest of Deepak Verma and Ravindra Rai. ...Full text |
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Poems by Comrade Mahendra Singh
Spartacus
Slavery is born of
The shame of bondage
Spartacus
Fights
Against civilised men
To become human
Is killed…
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Life
When Death
Stands a few steps away
Quite indifferently
Then,
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Chandrashekhar
How long?
How many times?
How many Shekhars will
Embrace death by murder?
You who preach human rights,
You who preach democracy,
O legal experts,
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Mahendra Singh: Unquenchable Voice of ‘People’s Jharkhand’
(For over two decades, Mahendra Singh had led innumerable struggles – for the right of the tribals and poor of Jharkhand to have a State of their own, against criminal ganglords and the corrupt political class, against the Sangh’s gameplan of turning Jharkhand into another saffron laboratory and against State terror. We carry a brief overview of some of the major struggles in Jharkhand’s political history, which Mahendra Singh played a key role in shaping.)
Mahendra Singh spearheaded a vigorous, creative Left intervention in the movement for Jharkhand statehood –
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Constituencies Contested by CPI(ML) Full text
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Stand by the Tsunami victims in their Battle for Life and Reconstruction
The havoc wrought by the killer tsunami waves of 26 December has once again demonstrated the utter vulnerability of human life in the face of nature’s fury. A week after the tragedy,... Full text
Killer Waves, Callous Rulers
This new year, a wave of tragedy has swept the world in the wake of the tsunami. These death waves have been matched only by the upsurge of goodwill and humanitarian concern it has generated around the world. Unprecedented amounts of relief have poured in for the affected people. ... Full text
The tsunami’s sad trail
There are some attitudes it seems even a tsunami cannot shake — the behavior of ruling classes at a time of grave crisis being a prime example. . ... Full text
Urban and Rural Workers Reach Out to the Tsunami-affected
On January 1, the workers of Ambattur and Tiruvotriyur, the landless agrarian labourers of Cuddalore, Nagapattanam and Pudukkottai and the beedi and unorganised workers of Tirunelveli held meetings and held ... Full text
Some of the Relief Initiatives of the CPI(ML)
In Andhra Pradesh, a CPI(ML) team comprising
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Youth and Tribals Demand Employment and Rights in Saffron Bastion
Recently, there have been some commendable initiatives to organise rural poor, tribals and youth in Gujarat.
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People’s resistance against police repression in Naugarh
The Eastern UP region, comprising some parts of Chandauli and Mirzapur districts and almost the whole of the Sonbhadra district, is to a large extent a hilly, forest region inhabited
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Issues in the Agrarian Struggle in West Bengal
excerpts from the General Secretary Comrade Dipankar Bhattacharya’s speech at Party’s West Bengal State Conference held at Kolkata on 10-12 December, 2004 ... Full text
Initiatives in the construction labour front in Tamil Nadu
The Tamil Nadu Democratic Construction Labour Union affiliated to the AICCTU has taken several initiatives recently. The Construction Labour Welfare Board (CLWB) has got funds to the tune of Rs.90 crore
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State Repression by Police and Army in Siwan
Crime in Siwan is a national byword – and it is well known that the RJD MP Shahabuddin is the kingpin of crime there. According to the Bihar Government, Special Task Force (STF) and CRPF troops
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Starvation Deaths in Arwal
The Bihar Government’s proud boast is that ‘no one can die of hunger here’; one need not go far to call its bluff – if hunger stalks the very constituency of the Bihar Food Supplies Minister Bagi Kumar Verma, one can imagine
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CPI(ML) Central Education Camp at Bhuvaneshwar
A Central Education camp of CPI(ML) was held on 22-26 December at Nagbhushan Bhavan, Bhubvaneshwar. The camp was inaugurated by the CPI(ML) General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya, who warned ... Full text
Movement in Jhunjhunu against Toll Tax and Privatisation of Highway
The District of Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan came to a virtual halt on January 3 as the bandh called by the joint struggle committee against imposition of toll tax on the national highway
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Corrigendum
In the last issue, ‘A Letter from A Father to A Daughter’ was written by Radhika Menon, and the onversations with Women Activists was by Amita Bhaduri and Radhika Menon. We regret the omission of authors’ names.
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