Maintain Friendly Relations with Sri Lankan People

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

 

The CPI(M) expresses its concern at the hostility displayed towards the people from Sri Lanka who are visiting Tamil Nadu. It is very unfortunate that two football teams of schoolboys from Sri Lanka who went to play in Tamil Nadu have been sent back at the instance of the state government. Some pilgrims from Sri Lanka visiting a church in Tiruvavur were harassed and they had to return. The CPI(M) condemns this incident.

 

We have to maintain people to people relations and foster friendly relations between the peoples of the two countries. Whatever the differences and opposition that exists regarding the Sri Lankan government’s approach to the Tamil question in Sri Lanka, nothing should be done to disturb people to people relations.

 

The CPI(M) appeals to all sections of the people and the political forces in Tamil Nadu to ensure that friendly and harmonious relations are maintained with the people of Sri Lanka.

Com. P Sundarayya Birth Centenary Seminar in Trivandrum on 5th September

A One day Seminar is organised in Trivandrum on the 5th September, by A K G Centre for Research and Studies on the occasion of Com. P Sundarayya Birth Centenary. The venue of the seminar will be AKG Hall. CPIM General Secretary Com. Prakash Karat will inaugurate the Seminar. Com. Pinarayi Vijayan will preside over the inaugural function. CPIM P B members Com. B V Ragahavulu, Com. M A Baby, Com. Kodiyeri Balakrishanan, Eminent scholar Dr. V K Ramachandran will speak on the ocassion.

CPI (M) condemns order of ‘no work no pay’ imposed by the Maruti Management

The Haryana unit of the CPI (M) condemned the summary dismissal of over 500 workers & order of  ‘no work no pay’ imposed by the Management of the Manesar-based Maruti plant.

CPI (M) Secretary Inderjit Singh told that “such highhandedness and dictatorial conduct of the Maruti management had been mainly responsible for the July 18 happenings in the plant”.

Criticising the “continued reign of terror let loose jointly by the management and by the Haryana Police against the workers and their family members”, he said that the arrest of some “innocent” workers who were returning from the Rohtak-based Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) office on Saturday by the Gurgaon police was condemnable.

Mr. Inderjit Singh said: “It is astonishing that the same Haryana Police which was reportedly shielding a person like ex-Minister Gopal Kanda accused of a serious crime had displayed extra interest in making indiscriminate arrests of more than 60 workers without any credible inquiry.”

“We demand that the Haryana Government intervene immediately in getting the dismissal orders withdrawn, scrap the order of ‘no work no pay’ &  stopping police repression” he added.