CPI - CPIM announces candidates for Punjab elections

CPIM State Secretary Com. Charan Singh Vridhi and State committe member (Amritasar Central Candidate ) Com. Vijay Mishra during the announcement of candidates

In the forthcoming elections to the Punjab Assembly, CPI, CPI(M) and the People's Party of Punjab led by Manpreet Singh Badal and the Akali Dal (Longowal) led by Surjit Singh Barnala have formed a front. The CPI is fighting 18 seats and CPIM will be contesting 9 seats in Punjab out of the 140 seats. The first list of 41 candidates announced by morcha chairman and People's Party of Punjab (PPP) chief Manpreet Singh Badal outside Jallianwala Bagh Martyrs memorial. Present on the occasion were CPI central executive committee member Dr Joginder Dayal and state secretariat member Harbhajan Singh, CPM state secretary Charan Singh Virdi and SAD (Longowal) Majha zone convener Pradeep Singh Walia.

CPIM Candidates and Constituency : Raghunath Singh (Garhshankar) Vijay Mishra (Amritsar central) Davinderjit Dhillon (Patti) Gurdial Singh Dhar (Anandpur Sahib) and Parshotam Lal Bilga (Phillaur) (SC).

CPI candidates and Constituency: Amarjit Singh Ansal (Amritsar west) Baldev Singh (Amritsar east) Balwinder Singh (Majitha) Lovleen Kaur Chahal (Sujjanpur) Subash Kaire (Dinanagar) (reserved).

Left parties - UKD(P) forms alliance in Uttarakand polls

CPIM, CPI and The Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (Panwar) headed by Trivendra Singh Panwar , announced the formation of a joint regional front for contesting the coming Assembly elections. It also released its first list of 12 candidates on Monday.

Addressing the media at a joint Press conference in Dehradun, Panwar said that the party had decided to join forces with the Left parties in order to strengthen its chances of preventing the Congress and the BJP from forming the next State Government. Announcing the formation of a joint regional front in the presence of CPI(M) State secretary Vijay Rawat and CPI National Council member Samar Bhandari, Panwar said that the Congress and the BJP failed to facilitate development and had instead caused deterioration of Uttarakhand during the 11 years since it was formed. The UKD-P and Left parties will now focus their efforts on preventing either of these two national parties from forming the next Government in Uttarakhand, Panwar said.

A first list of 17 candidates were announce during the function of which 13 seats are allocated to UKD (P) and the rest 4 seats are allocated to left parties. Com. Dinesh will contest from Gangothri and Com Anant Sing rana will contest from Badrinath as candidates of CPI. Com. Siva prasad will contest from Sahaspur constituency and Com. Rajpal will contest from sharali as candidates of CPIM.

CPIM Rajasthan State Conference

Communist Party of India Marxist Rajasthan State Conference ahead of the 20th Party Congress to be held at Kozhikode in April 2012 was held at Ringus in Sikar from 27th Decemeber to 30th December. The Congress began with a huge rally in Ramlila maidan in Ringus which gave a clear picture of the increasing strength of the party in the State. The important think to note is the huge participation of women and children in the rally despite of the  severe climate conditions. One interesting fact is that the participation in the rally was more than the total turnout during L K Adwani's recently held meeting as part of his rath yathra. The Rally was inaugurated by Com. Prakash Karat. He called upon the people to forge a Third front against the Congress and BJP in the state. CPIM Central Secreteriate member Com. Hannan Mullah, State Secretary Com. Vasudev Sharma, CC member and MLA com. Amra Ram spoke on the ocassion.

Later the delegate session was also inaugurated by Com. Prakash Karat. State Secretary Com. Vasudev Sharma placed the Organisational - Political report for discussion. 216 Delegates were present in the session. On the final day of the conference 31 member State committe with two new faces were elected. The Committe elected Com. Amara Ram, Hariram Chouhan, Ravindra Sukla, Hetram Beniwal, Falchand, Dhulichand, Prembharathi, Sumitra, Rameshwar Varma as the State Secreteriate and re elected Com. Vasudev Varma as the State Secretary.  

The State conference also decided to carryforward the struggle for water from Indira Canal and decided to hold a mass rally in February at Ganganagar raising this issue. 

CPIM Uttar Pradesh State Conference

Communist Party of India Marxist, Uttar Pradesh State Conference ahead of the 20th Party Congress was held at Kanpur from December 23 to 25 . The Conference started with the unfurling of Red Flag by veteran Freedom Fighter  Capt. Lakshmi. 

Com Prakash Karat inaugurated the conference. CPIM P B member S Ramachandran Pillai, CC members Com. Jogindar Sharma, Subhashini ali were present on the dais. 252 delegates were present in the conference. 

Com. S P Kashyap, state secretary presented the Political Organisational report. Various resolutions regarding Price rice, Caste discrimination, corruption were adopted by the conference. The conference also elected a 30 member state committee, 11 member state secreteriat and Com. S P Kashyap was re elected the state secretary. 10 delegates for the Party congress was also elected. 

The Two day conference has identified 16 seats to field its candidates in the UttarPradesh assembly elections to be held recently. Three or four more seats could be added toit in days to come. It was also decided that all left parties would unite to form the Left Front to challenge Congress, BSP, BJP and SP parties.

 

On the concluding day of the conference a public meeting was organised in Kanpur which was inaugurated by Com. Prakash Karat, General Secretary of the party. Party central committee member Com. Subhashini Ali, Party state secretary Com. S P Kashyap also spoke on the ocassion.

CPIM Malappuram District Conference

CPIM Malappuram District conference was held from 25 to 28 December at Manjeri. The conference was inaugurated by Com. Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, PB member CPIM. Inaugurating the meeting com. Balakrishnan said the party had failed to make a deep influence among the Muslim and Christian communities. He said although the minority communities had made financial achievements, a strong sense of ‘minoritism' was haunting them.Religious leadership, the CPI(M) leader said, had always been with the rich. The affluent among the minorities were making gains in the name of the community, he said.

Com Balakrishnan said the Indian Union Muslim League had made gains in the last elections by successfully getting the support of most groups of the Muslim community. He said the United Democratic Front had garnered only one lakh more votes than the Left Democratic Front in the last Assembly elections. It was the advantage of 3.5 lakh votes the UDF got in Malappuram district which turned it decisive for both fronts.

Senior leaders such as T. Sivadasa Menon, Paloli Mohammed Kutty, A. Vijayaraghavan, E.P. Jayarajan, P.K. Sreemathy, A.K. Balan, T.K. Hamza, P. Sreeramakrishnan, V. Sasikumar, P.K. Sainaba, and E.N. Mohandas were among those who were on the dais.

Com Ummer Master placed the Organisational and Political report at the conference on which discussions were held for 2 days.

The conference has chosen P.P. Vasudevan as the party's district secretary. He was elected unanimously on the third day of the party district conference Mr. Vasudevan, 68, hails from Perinthalmanna and is now the party's State Control Commission chairman and district secretariat member. Mr. Vasudevan came to public life through the youth movement of the party. He became a member of the CPI(M) in 1975. He has worked as Perinthalmanna area secretary of the party, district committee member, and district secretariat member. Mr. Vasudevan has been chairman of the Perinthalmanna Cooperative Urban Bank since 1980. He is also chairman of the Federation of Cooperative Urban Banks, executive director of E.M.S. Cooperative Hospital, and honorary secretary of the E.M.S. Memorial Charitable Trust.

The conference concluded with a huge rally and March by 25000 strong red volunteers.

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.