DYFI kick starts e-war to extradite Anderson

Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) has decided to send over 10 lakh e-mails to President Pratibha Patil to demand the extradition of former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson from the US for the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy. The email contains 5 major demands, which is also being faxed to the president. The programme was being inaugurated in New Delhi yesterday by Sri Jayaprakash, convener Bhopal Sangarsh Samithi by sending the first mail. DYFI founder president Com Hannan Mollah, DYFI All India Secretary Com Tapas Singha spoke on the occassion. CPIM General Secretary Com. Prakash Karat participated in the campaign in Lucknow.

CPI(M) protests against cancellation of ration cards in Ongole

 CPI (M) town secretary G.V. Konda Reddy, 

questioning assistant mandal revenue officer Chandrasekar Reddy

over cancellation of ration cards in Ongole on Thursday.

Activists of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) staged a demonstration in-front of the office of the Mandal Revenue Officer (MRO) here on Thursday protesting against cancellation of ration cards and not handing over possession of land sites allotted to them.

The agitators led by CPI (M) town secretary G.V. Konda Reddy, took strong objection to the MRO not handing over actual possession of house sites sanctioned under the Indiramma phase II programme even after lapse of 18 months.

“The Government is making us run from pillar to post. We will be provided land or not'' the protestors angrily asked, Deputy MRO D. Chandrasekhar Reddy.

They also raised slogans against the district administration for allegedly deleting the ration cards of 9,000 families on the pretext of migration without any actual door-to-door survey.
(Courtesy : The Hindu)

Tribute to Comrade Jyothi Basu on his 96th Birthday

The Portrait of legendary leader Comrade Jyothi Basu was unveiled in the West Bengal Assembly complex by former Loksabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee. He also delivered the first Jyothi Basu memorial lecture. The Left Front government has decided to christen Rajarhat as Jyotinagar after late CPM patriarch Jyoti Basu.   The government is also looking for land at Rajarhat so that a museum and education and research centre in Basu's memory can be set up soon. Rajya Sabha deputy chairman K Rahman Khan, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, PCC president Manas Bhunia and speaker Hashim Abdul Halim paid glowing tributes to Basu.