CPIM Jammu Regional Conference

The 7th Regional Conference of CPI(M) J&K unit held at Miran Sahab, Jammu on Monday 27th December, elected a new Regional Committee and the secretary, after day long deliberations and voting. While 12 out of 15 members of the committee were elected directly by 150 delegates coming from all over the region, three members would be elected by the committee itself. Sham Prasad Kesar was unanimously elected as the regional secretary for the second term.

 

Com. Sham Prasad Kesar

Earlier Sham Prasad Kesar presented the secretary’s report which was discussed at length and adopted with a few amendments. It was pointed out that the problems of rice growers of Jammu region should be included in the report. Since the border area of Jammu produces world famous Basmati rice, the farmers have to be encouraged by suitable incentives. The report stressed on the unity of the state, devolution of powers and special attention to the areas here to neglected. The demand to open the Suchetgarh-Sialkote (Pakistan) road and launching of trade through this route found a prominent place in the report. Safeguarding of human rights and withdrawal of AFSPA and PSA was highlighted in the report with special reference to Kashmir Valley. Government was asked to fulfill its much publicized promise of zero tolerance towards human rights violations. Improvement of living conditions of the Kashmiri migrants and their safe return to the valley was also raised in the report. Handing over of NPHC Power Projects to the State and construction of new projects on Chenab and its tributaries was demanded for the growth of Industry and generation of employment. Full support was extended to the CITU in their ongoing struggle against exploitation of employees, especially Anganwadi Workers, ASHAs, Midday Meal Workers, ReTs, Daily Wagers and Casual Labourers.

 

The conference adopted six resolutions regarding addressing of specific problems of farmers, revision of new pension scheme, revival of public sector undertakings, eradication of corruption, control of rising prices and safeguarding of trade union rights. The regional Conference elected 31 delegates for the forthcoming state Conference of the party.
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CPIM 20th Party Congress Reception Committee office inaugurated

Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member S. Ramachandran Pillai inaugurated the reception committee office for the upcoming party congress on the Bank Road here on Tuesday.

On the occasion, he said that the party congress scheduled to be held in the city from April 4 to 9 would be a significant one discussing contemporary global and national issues. The deliberations would be held at the ideological level. He said he could not disclose the details of the draft of ideological and political resolutions at this stage. The Central Committee (CC) had once discussed the draft of the ideological resolution. Now final touches were being made. The CC would meet again in Kolkata next month in this regard.

The ideological and political resolutions would be published by January 23 to be discussed at all levels of the party. Even the detractors of the party could freely discuss these things. Further, the draft would be deliberated at the party congress.

Only at important junctures ideological resolutions are discussed. The 14th Party Congress had then discussed the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union and socialism in East European countries in 1992, Mr. Pillai said. He said that the collapse of the Soviet Union had given critics to vehemently come out against communism and socialism. Even today such tendencies persisted after capitalistic-driven economies failed to deliver.

The collapse of insurance companies and banking sector, rise in unemployment and poverty and the yawning gap between the haves and the have-nots revealed that capitalism had failed. However, capitalistic countries continued to unleash their powers on smaller nations, he said.

Now the ongoing protests witnessed in Wall Street had spread to other cities in the United States. The protest of people had brought in a new political dimension in many Latin American countries. Progressive democratic communist governments began to replace corrupt capitalistic regimes. In India, he said, the Left parties had once tied up with regional parties for a third alternative to the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party. However, these regional parties took an opportunistic stand derailing the concept of a third alternative.

The support given by the Left parties to the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre from 2004 to 2008 had given a wider acceptance to the Congress. It also bolstered the secular image of the Congress among the minorities, he said.

CPIM State Committee member and Reception Committee Treasurer Com. Elamaram Kareem Presided over the Function. State Committee members M K Kelappan, famous novelist P Valsala, Kozhikode mayor Com. M K Premajam participated in the inaugural ceremony. Reception committee secretary Com. T P Ramakrishnan welcomed the audience. 

(Courtesy The hindu)

CPIM Himachal Pradesh State Conference

CPIM Himachal Pradesh State Conference was held in Mandi from 23 to 25th December 2011.

A massive rally was held in Mandi on the eve of its 14th State Conference on 24th December.

CPIM Central Committee member Com A. Vijayraghvan addressed the rally and infused hope in the cadres to become a third viable alternative in the State, so far ruled either by the BJP or the Congress. Scores of workers, youth, peasants, women and students participated in it.

Party State Secretary Rakesh Singha also blamed both the ruling parties for fuelling corruption and selling out the interests of the poor in the State to major corporate groups outside. He said the parties had merely become facilitators for the rich companies pursuing neo liberal policies.

After the rally the delegate session began and State Secretary com. Rakesh Sinha placed the Political - Organisational report. While presenting the political report, Mr. Singha revealed the challenges being faced by the workers, peasants and middle-level government and private employees in the State. The BJP and the Congress were both signatories to the memorandum of understanding and had brought the Fiscal Responsibility Budgetary Management Act, which had led to a complete moratorium on government jobs in the State, he said. Contractual employment was introduced and more than 40,000 posts were scrapped by the successive governments, he said, adding that the salaries and pensions of the employees were further squeezed. The conference also criticised privatisation of the all important education, health and transport sectors.

On Sunday the 25th of December the conference elected a 25-member State Committee with a seven-member State Secretariat and Rakesh Singha as its new State secretary. Onkar Shad, Kashmir Singh, Tikender Panwar, Kuldeep Tanwar, Khushal Bhardwaj and Prem Gautam got elected as the Secretariat members on the third day of its State Conference in Mandi. The State party would also send its five senior members to attend the 20th National Party Congress in Kozhikode in Kerala in April 2012, said a party spokesman.

The conference pledged to become a third alternative for the people in the State to the ruling BJP and Congress who have failed to address the issues of the poor in the hill State. The left party would now muster support from all progressive forces including political parties and individuals who are opposed to both the BJP and Congress.

The CPI(M) will also launch a struggle against the failure of the State Government to check the attacks on the livelihood of the people.

CPIM Punjab State Conference

The 20th state conference of Punjab unit of CPI(M) was held at Longwal (Sangrur) from 17 to 20 of December. A total of 228 delegates participated in the conference. Charan Singh Virdhi has been unanimously re-elected as state secretary. A 35 member state committee was also elected unanimously by the conference.

The conference gave a clarion call to the party cadres to work enthusiastically for the resounding victory of Sanjha Morcha, a secular and pro-people alternative comprising of PPP, CPI(M), CPI and Akali Dal (Longowal) in ensuing assembly elections in Punjab. The conference decided to channelize and harness for a constructive alternative secular and pro-people political alternative in the form of Sanjha Morcha the anger and dissatisfaction among all sections of masses in Punjab for a secular and pro-people political alternative so that they could get rid of the tyranny and loot of Akali-BJP and Congress regimes.

Com Charan Singh Vridhi

Com. S. R Pillai, PB member, CPI(M) congratulated the delegates for a very successful conference while making the concluding speech. He stated that CPI(M) in Punjab is on its way back to old glorious days. He recalled the scarifies made y the party in difficult times for national unity and integrity while fighting against extremist and separatists forces in Punjab. He called upon the party cadres to work tirelessly for the success of Sanjha Morcha in next assembly elections which has emerged as an alternative to the much hated SAD-BJP and Congress combinations which are responsible for hopeless situation in which Punjab has been pushed.

The conference through a resolution condemned the continuous and unabated attacks on party cades and mass front organizations workers in West Bengal by Trinamool goons and Maoists. Hundreds of party cadres have been killed after the last assembly elections. Many party and trade unions offices have been forcibly occupied with the help of police.


Through another resolution the conference expressed serious concern over deteriorating situation of peasants and agricultural workers in Punjab. It was decided to launch sustained joint struggles against the anti-peasants and anti-agricultural workers policies of the government.
The conference also adopted resolutions expressing serious concern over increasing prices of essential commodities, unemployment, atrocities against dalits and women, increasing cost of education and health facilities.

CPIM Kasargod District Conference

Kasargod District conference of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) was held at Kalikadavu from 18 th to 21st Decemeber. CPIM Polit Bureau member Kodiyeri Balakrishnan inaugurated the conference.

Party's central committee members P. Karunakaran, MP, Paloli Mohammed Kutty, E.P. Jayarajan, P.K. Sreemathy and senior leaders A.K. Balan and V.V. Dakshinamurthy addressed the meeting.

Com K.P. Satheesh Chandran, will continue as the district unit secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) for the second term in a row.

The meeting also elected unanimously the new district committee members. The five new faces in the district committee are V.P.P. Musthaffa, area sscretary, Trikaripur; M. Poklan (Kanhangad); Sabu Abraham (Eleri); K.R. Jayananda (Manjeswaram); and AIDWA leader M. Lakshmi, party sources here said. State committee member K. Kunhiraman, MLA (Trikaripur); AIDWA leader A.V. Remani, A. Abubacker, and Srinivasa Bhandari were excluded from the new district committee.

The meeting concluded with a massive procession and red volunteers march. The meeting which concluded the conference was inaugurated by Com. Kodiyeri balakrishnan.

CPIM Pathanamthitta District Conference

CPIM CC Member Com. V S Achuthanandan inaugurated the delegates’ session at the CPI(M) Pathanamthitta district held at M.K. Pandhe Nagar (St Stephen’s Cathedral auditorium) on Monday 18th of December.

CPI(M) leaders, Pinarayi Vijayan, T,M. Thomas Issac, Vaikom Viswan, P.K. Gurudasan, M.A. Baby, M.C. Josephine, Anathalavattom Anandan, Raju Abraham, R. Unnikrishna Pillai, K. Ananthagopan, K.C. Rajagopalan, R. Sanalkumar, T.K.G. Nair, K. Padmakumar and A.P. Udayabhanu, were also present at the dias. Com. Ananthagopan, district secretary placed the reports and the delagetes discussed the same in the two day conference.

The four-day district conference came to a close with a massive rally followed by a public meeting at the Public Stadium on Wednesday evening. 5000 ‘red volunteers,' and lakhs of party workers, and supporters took part in the rally taken out from the new private bus stand to the District Stadium in the afternoon. It took an hour-and-a-half for the rally to pass a point along the Thiruvalla-Kumbazha Road. CPI(M) State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan led the march.

Inaugurating the public meeting at the District Stadium later, Com Pinarayai Vijayan called upon the party cadres and supporters to fight against corruption, injustice, and imperialist forces.

Earlier the conference elected a 32 member district committe and 21 delegates for the state conference. The conference unanimously re elected Com. Ananthagopan as the District secretary.

CPI(M) Andhra Pradesh State conference Logo released

The CPI (M) will soon launch a cultural campaign as a prelude to the party's three-day State conference scheduled to be held at Khammam from February 2 to 4.

Giving details at a press conference on Tuesday, CPI (M) central committee member Tammineni Veerabhadram said a multi-focal campaign would be organised to give wide publicity to the forthcoming State conference to be held in Khammam.

The campaign would feature street plays, seminars, competitions in essay writing, elocution, and other events for the students.

The campaign has been designed in a unique way to highlight the need for promoting theatre arts and educating the masses on various problems confronted by today's society, he said adding that a science fair would be organised at Pavilion Grounds coinciding with the State conference to foster scientific temper and rationale thinking. 

CPI (M) general secretary Prakash Karat, Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechury, and senior leaders of the party will participate in the State conference. 

Mr Veerabhadram released the logo and brochure of the State conference on the occasion.

CPI (M) district secretary Pothineni Sudarshan Rao, district secretariat members M. Venkateshwarlu and Nunna Nageswara Rao were present.

(Courtesy The Hindu)

CPI(M) Nadia district conference

The Trinamool Congress-led government is taking West Bengal towards a dangerous situation, said the former Chief Minister and CPIM P B Member Comrade Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, on Sunday. The ruling party was as confused as were the policies of the State government. This would spell disaster, if not resisted.

He was speaking at a rally on the occasion of the Nadia district conference of the CPI(M) at Krishnangar. In a scathing attack on the Mamata Banerjee government's handling of the incident resulting in the police firing at Magrahat in South 24 Parganas district, the devastating fire at the AMRI Hospitals, Dhakuria, and the hooch tragedy at Sangrampur, Mr. Bhattacharjee said that each day there was a new law and order problem.

‘Timely treatment'

Referring to the liquor tragedy, he said: “It is only because of the lack of proper treatment that so many people died. Had there been timely treatment many lives could have been saved … There were neither the required number of doctors nor medicines and the administration had even failed to arrange for ambulances to bring the sick to the hospital.” He was also critical of the State government in its handling the situation in the Darjeeling hills and in the Maoist-affected Jangalmahal region. He alleged that the government had further complicated matters in Darjeeling, where it had given leeway to divisive forces and precipitated the situation where unrest could erupt anytime now. The Trinamool government had failed to set its priorities right in Jangalmahal, where it was taking on the CPI(M) instead of Maoists.

“The wrong-doings will have to be eliminated and the party will have to resume its position as the one which the people want,” Mr. Bhattacharjee said, adding there was no recourse but moving forward. He came down strongly on the Union government for its economic policies which had resulted in spiralling prices of essential commodities.

If the Centre continued to de-control the price of petrol, not provide subsidies to bring down the prices of essential items and merely go by the diktats of the World Bank, “only those with money will survive, those without will not.”

Claiming that the ground beneath the Manmohan Singh government was shaky, he ridiculed the Trinamool for its superficial opposition to matters like the rise in fuel prices though it continued to be part of the same government.

CPIM Kolar District Conference

Communist Party of India (Marxist) Kolar District Conference has urged the Union Government to set up a railway coach factory in Kolar district as announced in the Railway Budget 2010-11.

The Centre should give priority for local people while recruiting employees for the factory to mitigate the unemployment problem in the parched region, the CPI(M) said in a resolution at its district conference that concluded at Kolar Gold Fields (KGF) on Monday.

The conference demanded more railway infrastructure in the district to boost development.

The conference urged both the Union and State governments to take necessary steps towards implementing an order of the Karnataka High Court directing the Centre to resume the mining operations of Bharat Gold Mines Ltd. (BGML) in public sector.

There was no progress in this direction in spite of the apex court's indictment of the State Government for not taking any steps for revival of the gold mines, CPI (M) State secretary V.J.K. Nair said.

Pointing out that some vested interests were misleading the court, Mr. Nair said: “The BGML was not winded up. Only the mining operations are stopped.” Some people with vested interests are trying to privatise mining operations to reap benefits out of it, he said

Some unscrupulous elements, claiming to be the former employees and officers of BGML, were engaging lawyers to fight their case in the Supreme Court. While the former workers and their families live in abject poverty, from where these people got money to pay to lawyers, he asked.

Ahead of the conference a procession and public meeting was organised in Netaji Park at KGF on Sunday. S.P. Agatyalingam, senior leader of the Tamil Nadu state committe of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), has criticised the Union Government for its failure to protect the interests of the erstwhile employees of Bharat Gold Mines Ltd. (BGML).

Though the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance Government closed down the BGML, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government did little to resume its operations, he said.

Addressing the meeting, CPI (M) State secretary V.J.K. Nair said the Union Government had helped the corporate sector by waiving taxes to the tune of Rs. 21 lakh crore in the last three years. CPI (M) district unit secretary G. Arjunan presided over the meeting.

CPI (M) State secretariat member G.C. Bayya Reddy, state committee member Gandhinagar Narayanaswamy and district leader V. Geetha spoke.

CPIM Adilabad District Conference

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Saturday demanded an early solution to the separate Telangana issue. The party accused the Congress and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) of keeping Telangana backward. CPI (M) leaders said both the parties had kept the issue burning instead of finding a solution.This has pushed the region towards backwardness, they said.

At a public meeting organised by the CPI (M) in connection with its two-day Adilabad district conference, MLC and party's State secretariat member Ch. Seetharamulu severely criticised the United Progressive Alliance government for its policies. He said rapid globalisation had brought extreme corruption and imposed hardship on people through inflation. Mr. Seetharamulu said the anti-people's policies of the State government had seen a decrease in funding for welfare programmes.  He said the government effected cuts in scholarships to students and pensions which adversely affected the poor and the downtrodden.

Earlier, the CPI (M) organised a rally in town. While CPI (M) district secretary Bandi Dattatri presided over the meeting, State secretariat member S. Veeraiah, State Council members Lanka Raghavulu and M. Sai Babu, AIDWA State president Jyothi and CITU leader D. Mallesh participated.