Minister Raja Should Resign

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:

The outcome of the 3G spectrum auction convincingly proves that Union Communication Minister, Shri A. Raja, was clearly involved in corrupt practices by selling 2G spectrum to some industrialists by manipulating TRAI recommendations. Whereas 3G spectrum could fetch Rs. 70,000 crores, 2G spectrum was sold at a paltry sum of Rs. 2000 crores only. Shri Raja had done so by blatantly violating the law causing a huge loss to the public exchequer.

Despite repeated demands made in parliament and outside, Shri A. Raja is nonchalantly continuing to stick to his position. Such a situation cannot be allowed to be continued.

The CPI(M) demands that Shri A. Raja should immediately resign from his post pending a high power enquiry into the entire 2G spectrum scam.

If the minister refuses to resign, the Prime Minister should sack him to maintain the dignity of the high post Shri A. Raja is holding in the Government.

Wild Allegations by TMC

Sitaram Yechury and Basudev Acharia met the Home Minister today evening and handed over a letter on the unsubstantiated and wild allegations leveled by the TMC. We are releasing the text of the letter:

 

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Dear Home Minister,

 

We seek to draw your attention and intervention in a serious situation that is developing in the course of the current election campaign to municipal corporations in the state of West Bengal.

 

The enclosed letter from the Chairman of the Left Front, Shri Biman Basu, explains how the Trinamul Congress leader and Union Railway Minister is deliberately stoking panic and terror amongst the Muslim minority population claiming that she has secret information that a section of the police will help the Left Front in unleashing communal violence in the state.

 

You are surely aware that during the last thirty three years of the Left Front Government in West Bengal, the state and its people have seen unprecedented communal harmony and fraternity. This record makes all of us proud in India and is often portrayed as the symbol of India’s strength in secular democracy. You will surely agree that any effort to blemish this record are not in the interests of our country’s unity and integrity. Further, casting such wild and unsubstantiated allegations, especially by a Union Cabinet Minister, also violates the provisions of the Representation of People Act, 1951.

 

If indeed the TMC leader and Union Minister does possess some secret information we request you as the Union Home Minister to obtain such information and act on it in consultation with the state government. If on the contrary, there is no such information, as surely is the case, then may we request you to set at rest the apprehensions and tensions that have resulted from the Union Minister’s utterances.

CPIM to rule 12 Panchayats in Karnataka

CPIM candidates have won in 322 panchayat wards in the elections held to local bodies in Karnataka. Above all CPIM will be ruling 12 Panchayats in the state independenthly. Of the total candidates elected 25 % are women.  

Party made strong presence in the panchayat elections in Chickbelapur, Gulbarga, Mangaluru, Gadhak, Beedar, Uduppi, Belgaum and Mandya districts. Julipalaya, Paragod, Kanadavarappalli, Kuruthuppallai, Somanadhapura, Paattapalaya are the panchayats in Chickbelapur  district that CPI M won alone. Majority seats  in Thiru malai, Ulleyeri, Somanahalli, Hambasandra panchayats in Gundibanda Taluk had been captured by CPIM. Vanaguruve Panchayat in Uthara kannada District is also wrested by CPIM. 

Of the 26 seats in Juliyappalaya panchayat CPIM won 22 seats. In Gulbarga district CPIM will rule a panchayat with the help of alliance parties. Of the total 5474 panchayat seats in the state, Congress and Janatadal is having the upper hand.

Rich tributes paid to Com. P Sundarayya on his 25th Memorial Day

Rich tributes were paid to Puchalapalli Sundaraiah, on the occasion of his 25th  death anniversary, here on Wednesday. The CPI (M) Vijayawada city unit organised a meeting to pay tributes to him.

On the occasion, CPI (M) state secretary and Polit bureau member B.V. Raghavulu stressed on the need to reach the masses and the oppressed taking a cue from life and personality of Sundaraiah. The simplicity, humanity behind the sacrifice, and commitment were some of the facets of Sundaraiah's success. His simplicity was to reach common man and mingle with them. And, his sacrifice had a face of humanity as he distributed his lands for landless. Likewise, he never went back in time of difficulties, he said, adding, these qualities were need of hour to achieve the Sundaraiah's goals and objectives. “The people, world over, were confronting many new problems like abuse of natural resources by few rich people, and growing Capitalism. These rich people were driving the people towards socialism. New forces were seeking inspiration from life of Sundaraiah and Marxism to resolve these problems. And, hence, it was necessary to gear up for setting up socialist society,” he said.

The ruling Congress and many political parties have stopped thinking about the problems the common man was facing as they were more interested in power, and struggling with internal squabbles. The people were in dire need of political party like CPI (M) to agitate in behalf of them, he said. Stating that CPI(M) Party Congress which was due in February 2010, could not be organised due to elections in many states. The all India meeting was postponed to 2012, and extended central committee meeting would be organised in Vijayawada from August 7 to 10. As many as 370 delegates would attended the meeting to discuss the political developments in last three years and chalk out future action plan, he said, and recalled that all India meeting conducted in 1982, when Sundaraiah was alive, in Vijayawada was a grand success. CPI(M) central committee member Paturi Ramaiah, district secretary V. Umamaheswara Rao, city secretary R. Raghu, floor leader in VMC Ch. Babu Rao and others were present.

NALGONDA: The CPI (M) district secretary Nandyala Narasimha Reddy called upon party cadres to draw inspiration from Puchalapalli Sundarayya and relentlessly strive to realise his ideals. Speaking at a meeting commemorating the 25th death anniversary of Mr Sundarayya at Dhoddi Komraiah Bhavan here on Wednesday, Mr. Narasimha Reddy described Mr. Sundarayya as a champion of the working class movement and an epitome of selfless service.

KADAPA: Communist stalwart Puchalapalli Sundarayya was a revolutionary planner par excellence, built progressive movements and would always be an inspiration to the Communist movement, CPI(M) district secretary B. Narayana and district secretariat member N. Ravisankar Reddy asserted on Wednesday.

Paying rich homage while observing Sundarayya's 25th death anniversary at the party office, they said Puchalapalli Sundarayya left an indelible mark on integrated water schemes, land issues and priorities for the State in books authored by him. His books on - A.P. Comprehensive Water Schemes, Poor and Land Distribution, Prajarajyam in Visalandhra – were invaluable. He not only countered casteism in his native village, established coolie sanghams, undertook salt satyagraham, picketed toddy shops but spearheaded the Telangana Armed Struggle, all aimed at building a new social order, the CPI(M) leaders asserted.