SUCI (Communist) activists come out on streets and burns the effigy of PM in support of Bharat Bandh in Patna

Patna, December 1:
SUCI(Communist) activists came out on the streets and burnt the effigy of PM Manmohan Singh at Patna junction Roundabout in support of the Bandh called by Confederation of All India Traders and Bharat Byapar Udyog Mandal against most heinous decision of the Congress-led UPA government to allow 51% FDI in retail sector.
The speakers while addressing the gathering before and after burning the effigy said that the small businessmen will be wiped out due to the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The rate of unemployment would rise and the condition of common people would worsen certainly as its consequence. The retail prices of commodities would go up. The speakers said, “Seeing the deepening crisis due to Wall-Mart the US president Obama advised his countrymen to support small businesses by shopping local stores, where as in India our Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is adamant on allowing FDI in the country”. The speakers referred the eye-opening study entitled “Wal-Mart and Poverty” conducted in USA which clearly brought out that those American states that had more Wal-Mart stores in 1987, had higher poverty rates by 1999 than the states where fewer stores were set up. The speaker refuted the arguments placed by the government that the big retail helps to remove the middlemen and therefore provides a better price to farmers. Emphasizing upon the imperative need to build up powerful resistance movement against this out and out anti people move of the central government.
The meeting was addressed by Shivlal Prasad, Indradeo Ray, both State Committee Members. The others who spoke on the occasion were Awadhesh Kumar, Suryakar Jitendra, Rajkumar Chaudhary and Anamika, all Patna District Committee Members, SUCI (Communist).

SUCI (Communist) denounces price hike of Petrol and burns the effigy of PM in protest

Patna, November 4:
The price of petrol is going up after the Congress led UPA Government in Centre decontrols the fixation of prices of petrol in June last year. Under the auspices of SUCI (Communist) Patna District Committee effigy of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh was burnt at Patna Junction roundabout here on Friday against the price hike of petrol by Rs. 1.82 with effect from Thursday midnight. While demonstrating SUCI (Communist) activists were shouting thunderous slogans like: ‘Rollback the increased price of petrol’, ‘Anti people UPA government go hell’, ‘State Government bring down price of petrol by withdrawing the taxes on it’ etc.
Addressing the meeting after burning the effigy the speakers said that the price of petrol has been increased nearly 70 per cent in last two and half years. This is the fifth increase since January and second within a couple of months. On the one hand the Union Finance Minister is terming ‘dangerous’ the rate of price hike of food and necessary items marked with 12 per cent, his government is allowing the profit greedy oil companies to hike the price of petrol on the other. The recent hike would accelerate the prices of commodities of daily use and food items resulting making people’s live miserable. They further said that the Central government is allowing oil companies to increase the price of petrol in order to ensure super profit for them. This increase has come at a time when data from Singapore and Arab-Gulf product markets show a declining trend both in petrol’s price and demand. Denouncing the recent increase in petrol’s price the speakers demanded for rolling back the increase.
The speakers also held responsible the State government for increasing the prices of petrol as it has not given relief to the people of the state by withdrawing or at least reducing the taxes on petroleum products. In the name of development and good governance the Nitish Government has imposed 24.5 per cent tax on petrol while it is 20 per cent in neighboring state Jharkhand, 18 per cent in Odisha and 20 per cent in Delhi. All the speakers demanded the state government to withdraw taxes from petrol. The meeting was addressed by Com. Shivlal Prasad, senior member, Bihar state Committee, SUCI (Communist), Sadhana Mishra, Secretary, Patna District Committee, SUCI (Communist), Awadhesh Kumar, Suryakar Jitendra, Rajkumar Chaudhary, Anil Kumar and Anamika, all members, Patna District Committee, SUCI (Communist).

SUCI (Communist) Expresses solidarity to Wall Street Movement

Patna, October 21:
SUCI (Communist) Patna District Committee expresses solidarity to the ongoing Wall Street Movement here on Friday. While showing solidarity to the participants of Occupy Wall Street Movement SUCI (Communist) activists were shouting slogans Like ‘Salute to the Wall Street Movement’, ‘Salvation is in socialism, not capitalism’, ‘Move forward to anti-capitalist working class revolution’, ‘Long live Marxism-Leninism-Shibdas Ghosh thought’, ‘Destroy capitalism, build up socialism’, ‘Down with capitalism, build up socialism’.
Addressing the meeting held on the occasion, Arun Kumar Singh, senior member of SUCI (Communist), Bihar State Committee, said, ‘’The gathering of people at Wall Street, the headquarters of financial institutions, in New York held on September 17 last is continued. The slogan ‘Occupy Wall Street’ expresses itself the people’s endeavour to identify the main enemy responsible for the present pitiable condition of theirs. This time the target of the movement is neither Gorge Bush nor Obama, but the owners of huge capital accumulated through exploitation of labour, the corporate giants. Standing on Wall Street the American people are raising their voice against the relief packages of crores of dollars given to corporate houses and heavily cutting down the expenses in health and education for the common people. On the one hand the wealth of the rich is expanding rapidly and the common people are turning into beggars day by day on the other. The unemployment is on the top. It has even surpassed the rate of unemployment assumed during the great recession of 1929. ’’
Wall Street movement had shaken the entire world. The waves of movement had spread in the major cities of the countries of America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Demonstrations were being held daily in those cities. People were showing solidarity to and extending their support to the demonstrators of Wall Street Movement. The common people of different countries were shouting slogans in favour of the change in social set up. To remove 1 per cent of the population, the exploiters, the corporate houses from the seat of power by the populace of 99 per cent, the toiling people was the common desire of the people taking part in the movement. They wanted to overthrow capitalism, root cause of all human miseries. Their banners display ‘Capitalism is not working, another world is possible’ and we know ‘another world’ is Socialism, he added.
In course of describing the domestic conditions prevailing in the country, the other speakers mentioned the incidents of suicides of farmers entangled in debts, closer of lacs of factories, starvation and miseries to the working people, deprivation of education and health services of common man, opening of fire and resorting of lathicharge by the police personnel at people’s movement. They urged the common people in general and toiling people in particular to take lessons, get inspire and build up mighty mass movements on the people’s issues. “In course of strengthening mass movements and fastening the contradictions of labour and capital they have to establish socialism is the need of the hour”, they said. The others who spoke on the occasion are Shiv Lal Prasad, M K Pathak, both senior members, SUCI (Communist), Bihar State Committee, Sadhana Mishra, Secretary, SUCI (Communist), Patna District Committee, Baidyanath Sharma, Suryakar Jitendra, Anil Kumar and Anamika.

AIDSO, Bihar demonstrates before the Governor against educational problems

Patna, Sept 26:
Observing 26th September, birth day of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar as All India ‘Save education’, ‘ Save humanity’ Day, AIDSO, Bihar demonstrates before the Governor against the privatization, commercialization of education, PPP Policy in education and educational corruption on Monday.
The procession started from historic Gandhi Maidan and reached at R-Block traversing the main thoroughfares of the city. A meeting was held there when the procession was stopped by the police.
The meeting was addressed by Sadhana Mishra, President, AIDSO Bihar, Suryakar Jitendra, Secretary, AIDSO Bihar, Anamika, Vice President, AIDSO Bihar and Anil Kumar, Ashutosh Kumar, Raushan Kumar, Vikash Kumar, all Secretariat Member, AIDSO Bihar. The meeting was presided over by Uma Shankar Verma, Vice President, AIDSO Bihar. The speakers demanded to stop privatization and commercialization of education, discard the policy of PPP in education, stop fee hike at all levels, Stop Grading System and No detention policy, Stop educational corruption, Withdraw false cases from student leaders, No sex education at school level.

Citizen's Dharna against police repression on mass movement

Patna, 19 September:
Punish the Patna Town DSP Ramakant Prasad and other police man responsible for police repression at Nala Road. Withdraw the false cases implicated against struggling students, youths and Women. Stop police repression on mass movements and Take effective measures to democratise police and administration.
These are the demands raised at the Dharna of citizen's at Dinkar Golamber, Nala Road here on Monday. This Dharna was organised against increasing police repression on mass movements in the state in general and against the incident of police lathicharge, arresting and beating of women and male activists at Nala Road, Patna in particular. It was attended by the intellectuals, college teachers, doctors, lawyers, cultural activists, social and political activists and the leaders of students and woman organisations. The Dharna was presided over by a 5 member presidium comprising Akshay Kumar, Nand Kishore Singh, Sadhana Mishra, Kishori Das and Kanchan Bala. Those who spoke on the occasion were Prof. Ishwari Prasad, Prof. Devendra Prasad, Prof. Vinay Kumar Kantha, Prof. Santosh Kumar, Prof. Bharati S Kumar, Prof. Sushila Sahay, Prof. Ashish Ranjan, Dr A K Gaur, Bhupendra Kumar, Wakil Thakur, Indira Devi, Mona, Laxmi Devi, Satya Narayan Madan, Narendra Kumar, Arun Kumar Singh, Satish Kumar, Vishwajit Kumar, Vikash, Abhuday, Markanday Pathak, Indradeo Roy, Suryakar Jitendra, Anil Kumar.

Protest March in Patna against the price hike of petrol and the police repression at Nalanda

Patna, 16 September:
SUCI (Communist) Patna District Committee took out a protest march against the price hike of petrol and the police atrocity at Noorsarai, under Nalanda district on people’s movement here on Friday. The protest march was started from Dinkar Golambar and concluded at Bhagat Singh Chowk passing through Nala Road, Thakurbari Road and Bari Path. The participants were shouting slogans like ‘Roll back the increased prices of Petrol’, ‘ Decrease the taxes of Central and State governments on Petrol’,‘ Stop police repression on mass movements’, ‘ Punish the senior police officials responsible for severe lathichare on women at Noorsarai’.
The speakers while addressing the gathering at Bhagat Singh Chowk said: “The already woeful condition of people of Bihar due to skyrocketing price hike of essential commodities would worsen on account of further price rise of petrol. The repeated price hike of petrol is due to the outcome of decontrol of prices of petrol by the government last year in order to give the freehand to the oil companies for reaping maximum profit. The anti people face of the Congress led UPA government is now unveiled. On the one hand the oil companies are talking of loss and they are making huge profit by investing in overseas on the other. Everyone knows these are self contradictory and the talk of loss is baseless.”
“The JDU-BJP combine government is suppressing mass movements in the name of susashan (good governance). The method by which the police at Noorsarai, Nalanda resorted lathicharge on the peaceful protest of people, including women is highly deplorable. The women were beaten up severely by male police, even not in uniform in full public view. The women were beaten up severely on the road and in police custody by the DSP Ramakant Prasad himself while they were demonstrating peacefully against their civic problems at Nala Road, Patna” said the speakers. They said that the Nitish Government was following the same footprints of the anti people governments of earlier. Urging the common people to come forward and build up mass movements against the anti people policies of the state and the central governments they stated the mass movement is the only way to redress the people’s problems.
The meeting was addressed by Manikant Patahk, State Committee Member, SUCI (Communist), Sadhana Mishra, Dist Secretary, Patna and Baidyanath Sharma, Rajkumar Chaudhary, Anil Kumar and Anamika, all District Committee Members.

Remove Town DSP Ramakant Prasad from his present assignment and start disciplinary procedure for blatant violation of human rights

PUCL report on Police excess in Langartoli, Nala Road, Kadam Kuan, Patna
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A news item appeared in the local dailies about Police excesses on a group of protesters in Langertoli, Nala Road, Patna. The incident took place on August 12, 2011. Bihar PUCL discussed it in its weekly meeting on August 14, 2011 and decided to probe the incident as it involves citizens’ legitimate right to protest. An enquiry team was constituent with Fr. Philip Manthara, President Bihar PUCL, Jitendra Choubey, member, Kanchan Bala, member and Manish Kumar, member.
The team visited the ground zero on 22 August, 2011. The team met residents, shopkeepers, protesters, hawkers and onlookers along with victims to find out their version of the incident. Among them were Geeta Devi, 45 yrs, Mobile Shop Owner, Shamim, 55 yrs, (Spectacles Shop), Prem Kumar, 26 yrs, (Sweet Shop), Prakash, 27 yrs, (Optical shop), Uttam, 32 yrs, (Optical Shop), Ram Ji, 55 yrs, (Vegetable Seller), Prem (Sahara Finance Agent), Malti Devi,( Tea Shop). The residents who either participated in this cause or as residents were Jayram Singh, 50 yrs, resident; Vijay kumar, 35 yrs, resident; Shailu Devi, 40 yrs, resident; Laxmi Devi, 42 yrs, w/o Mahaveer Kumar; Bijwanti Devi w/o Girjananda Singh; Rupa, 25 yrs; Sanjay kr Munna, 35 yrs, Businessman; Chinta Devi, 65 yrs, and her manager Gajo Prasad, 70 yrs, resident.
They narrated how their only narrow lane they have was flooded with rain. The drain was chocked resulting in knee deep water on road. Unfortunately, sewer line got clogged and started over flowing. This resulted in a lot of filthy matter floating from sceptic tanks. Besides this the accumulated garbage turned putrid making it terrible for the residents. The situation remained like this for 10 days. The worst sufferers were school going children, the Aged and the sick. An old lady said that she was confined for a week without vegetables. Shopkeepers lost their business and vendors their precious livelihood.
The foul smell emanating from putrid matter made life hellish for them. Discontentment grew because of the terrible apathy of the administration. As taxpayers, it was their right to get basic civic amenities. Even at this stage they did not allow despair to take over. They wrote petitions signed by more than 100 people and submitted them to their respective ward councilors. After getting no positive response from the administration the residents decided to register a non-violent protest on 12 august, 2011 to draw the attention of the administration about their terrible plight.
A fairly large number of people were gathered in the morning around 8:30 am on Aug 12, 2011. The protesters barricaded one half of the two way road and allowed the other half for vehicular movement. They burnt tyres to draw the city’s administration to their daily sufferings. At 9 am, the women started addressing the crowd on microphone. A police Jeep from Kadam Kuan Police Station led by ASI Lal Babu singh arrived. But they didn’t interfere with the peaceful protest. According to the witnesses a crowd of 200-300 had gathered there by then.
Around 10 am, the Dy SP (Town), Rama Kant Prasad arrived with his two body guards. He was neither interested to know the reason of protest nor in its peaceful end. He preferred to use force. He himself snatched away the microphone from speaker, Anamika, 31 yrs, and without any prior warning, ordered his men to disperse the crowd by force. What followed then was brutal lathi blows. According to them, Ramakant Prasad forcibly took Sadhana Mishra, 41 yrs into a tight grip within his arms. Rest of the public including other girls and women were infuriated over this unacceptable behavior and they tried to release Sadhana from his clutches. During this scuffle, Ramakant Prasad’s uniform was partially torn. He threw Sadhana on the road with full force causing her bodily injury. Police brazenly used cane against women; a youth named Nikolai Sharma, while trying to defend the women, bore the brunt of the attack on his bare palm, that required eight stitches to stop bleeding. A girl, Suman Lata Mourya, said Ramakant Prasad threw a burning tyre over her which she allowed to slip down her body by closing her limbs tightly. She narrowly escaped with only burn injury on her left arm.
The angry crowd threw few stones resulting in some damage to the wind screen of the Police Jeep. Policemen turned more violent than earlier and used their cane more indiscriminately against the crowd. After dispersing a large part of the crowd, Police started arresting protesters. They took Sadhana Mishra,41, Sandhya Maiti, 50, Anamika, 31, Leelavati Singh, 42, Laxami Devi, 45, Sumanlata Mourya alias Pinky,21, Anjali, 18, Pooja Singh,23, Pummy Kumari alias Sadhana,21 and five men Suryakar Jitendra, 38 yrs, Anil Kr, 35 yrs, Saroj kr Suman, 30 yrs, Krishnamohan Singh, 22 yrs, Rahul Singh, 20 yrs under custody. The people mentioned above were beaten up in public view. The women were roughed up, humiliated by using filthiest abuses in the Police vocabulary to demoralise them exposing the brutal face of Patna Police. The people were furious. It was only when the whole thing was over they brought two women police in civil dress just to show that lady police were present.
In the Kadamkuan Police Station: Victim’s version
At the Police Station, the arrested people were asked to sit on the floor. The police hurled filthy abuses on them while the men were beaten up again and again. When Dy SP Ramakant arrived he made hell for the victims. He told Policemen to beat them up as there were no media reporters inside. Ramakant Prasad smashed the spectacles of Sadhana Mishra. He slapped her on her checks again and again while calling the women and girls prostitute and worse. Meanwhile, Ramakant’s body guard didn’t want to be left behind. He took one young woman and started misbehaving with her. Her cries brought all the others to shriek and cry. Only then the bodyguard left her free. In the meantime arrested men received lathi blows and kicks.
Injury report (Medical report)
Victim, Suman Lata Mourya alias Pinky, suffered burning injury at her left arm and burn hair.
Nikolai Sharma wore a thick bandage covering his right palm. He had received eight stitches as his medical report suggest.
Sadhana Mishra had received arm and leg injury along with some internal injury according to her medical report.
All the arrested five men were sent to Jail after registering an FIR against them; the three women whose names were included in the FIR were let off.

According to FIR
FIR: no. 3784/11 filed by ASI Kadam Kuan P.S Lalbabu Singh
IPC section 147,148,149,341,323,353,307,332,427
Name of Accused:
Rahul Singh, S/O Girjanandan Singh, Langartoli
Suryakar Jitendra, S/O Late Saryug Sharma, Nala Road, Near Shiv mandir, SUCI worker
Mohan Singh, S/O Girijanandan Singh, Langartoli
Anil Kumar s/o Laxmi Narayan Barnwal, Rajendra Nagar Rd No.-1, Kadamkuan
Saroj Kumar Suman s/o Balkrishna Sharan, Darbhanga
Sadhana Mishra D/o Sitambar Mishra, Langartoli
Sandhya Maiti, D/o Late Bisheshwar Maiti, Langartoli
Pooja Singh D/o RAmdani Singh, Mirjapur Mali, Aurangabad
40-45 unknown active workers of SUCI
According to FIR, ASI Lalbabu singh, along with driver Ramashish Singh, Home guard Jawan Shivnath singh, and Lallan Sharma with mobile no. 1, reached the protest spot after getting information of huge traffic jam at Nala Road. He found 10-15 women and nearly 50 men had blocked the road, by burning the tyres. When he requested them to call off the protest and allow the movement of traffic, they all rejected his request and became defiant and started shouted slogans against the administration. Meanwhile, Dy SP (Town) Ramaknt Prasad arrived. He also requested them to call off the agitation. Instead of calling off, they started pelting stones and later on attacked the police using sticks and canes, leaving few policemen injured. One of the protesters was whirling the burning tyre which caused injury to protesters themselves. When anti-riot control vehicle arrived, a stampede occurred and some agitators received injuries. We chased and caught five men who later revealed the names of three women who were involved in this protest.
SHO Jyoti Prakash’s version
The protesters had not given prior notice of their agitation. Our ASI Lal Babu Singh was there to keep vigil over the peaceful Protest of around 50-60 people. As the Dy SP Rama Kant Prasad arrived, he ordered the Policemen to disperse the crowd. Our forces acted on his order. The mob turned violent and pelted stones. In the meanwhile, Dy SP asked for reinforcement from the Kadamkuan Police Station. Special Mobile-2 also arrived to control the mob. In this skirmish, ASI LalBabu Singh received minor head injury; constable, Suresh Thakur, who arrived with reinforcement, received Left hand injury and minor head injury. When the arrested were brought to the Police Station, no Media was present there.
Dy SP Ramakant Prasad’s version:
The team met Dy SP in his office at old Police lines near Gandhi Maidan on 23 August, 2011, morning. He was vocal in praising himself: his college days, his union activities and the many achievements of his life. He said when he was passing through Nala Road and found slogan mongering students. He intervened. Then he was compelled to take action. ‘I wish I had no uniform on me to teach them a lesson of their lives’ he said. On being asked about his alleged misbehavior with women and girls, he denied everything and put the all blames on the protesters. He said that there is a case against him in the court regarding this incident. He asked us to wait for the court verdict. He said he had acted in full media glare and promised to provide a CD to the team to prove his innocence. But that CD is not still made available even after repeated reminders.
Conclusion:
1. Any one visiting Langartoli even in normal days can imagine what the situation would have been when flooded with filth and putrid matter for days together. So the cause of protest was totally legitimate. The protest was peaceful as testified by the SHO, Kadamkuan PS.
2. The order of Dy SP to remove the protesters by force was not only against concept of modern policing but also against basic civil rights.
3. Eventually the police had the whole place thoroughly cleaned up by 6 pm the same day with the help of concerned ward councilors. If the Policemen had shared this possibility with the protesters in the morning, they would have found them their allies in restoring their legitimate right for civic amenities. The Patna police had missed a golden opportunity to gain community support in sorting out problems without violence.
4. The team sensed the anger of the people in the way Dy SP led the police in manhandling women protesters, beating them with lathis, slapping them and mouthing foul language against them as a method of punishment. This indicates the barbaric mindset of male chauvinistic police. The team unequivocally condemns this.
The Patna police often behave as the enemy of the people. Contrast the behavior of Patna police with that of the London police 117 of whom were wounded because of stone pelting during the recent riots there. They maintained restraint in the face of extreme provocation. Later the law-breakers were arrested and prosecuted. That is the route police should take in any civilized society.
5. The arrest and detention of 9 women by male police, without the presence of lady police, took place in full public view. The police also admitted this but this was not mentioned in the FIR. This had happened not by chance but by a clever design.

Recommendations:
1. The team found the conduct of the Dy SP led Police action as anti-people. We recommend his removal from the present assignment and start disciplinary procedure for blatant violation of human rights.
2. The team found the case made against the arrested persons manufactured. We recommend unconditional release of the arrested five men.
4. The arrest and detention of women protesters at Langertoli by Police men was totally illegal. The team recommends initiation of criminal procedure against the Dy SP, ASI Kadamkuan, Lal Babu Singh and other guilty policemen.
5. A radical police reform is a must in keeping with the increasing, legitimate aspiration of the citizen of this country in accordance with the provisions of the Indian constitution.
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Signature

1. Fr Philip Manthara 2. Jitendra Choubey
3. Kanchan Bala 4. Manish Kumar

Massive Women March to Governor

Patna, September 6:
Protesting against the severely beating up and misbehavior with women and citizens in the custody of Kadamkuan Police Station here and increasing attack on mass movements in the state Women took out a massive Rajbhawan March on Tuesday. The March organized under the banner of Sanyukta Mahila Sangharsha Morcha consisted of 5 women organizations, namely Bihar Mahila Samaj, All India progressive Women’ Association (AIPWA), Working Women Association, All India Democratic Women Association (AIDWA) and All India Mahila Sanskritik Sangathan (AIMSS).
The March started from Gandhi Maidan and reached at R Block traversing through Fraser Road, Dakbunglow roundabout, Patna Junction and New Market. While the huge procession was stopped by the police at R Block, it conversed into a mass meeting. The participating women coming from different parts of the state were shouting thunderous slogans and they were holding placards like ‘reward exemplary punishment to the Town DSP Mr. Ramakant Prasad, guilty for slapping and abusing badly the women at Kadamkuan PS’, ‘immediately release the arrested youths’, Stop police repression on democratic mass movements’.
Addressing the huge women gathering at R Block the women leaders said: Without making any attempt at dialogue the Town DSP Mr. Ramakant Prasad resorted to lathicharge, severely beat up and misbehaved with the citizens and women protesting against water logging, garbage pile-up and extreme insanitary conditions in their locality, Longertoli Gali. Ignoring and disregarding the fact that only a woman police can arrest a woman the DSP beat up Sadhna Mishra and threw a burning tire on Pinky, which singed the hair and clothes and she received a burn wound on the upper part of her arm. In the police station DSP Mr. Ramakant Prasad beat up the male activists mercilessly and trampled upon their chests with his boots like criminals and he twice slapped Sadhna Mishra hard and smashed her spectacles. Attempt was also made for sinister motive encircling the girls.
Terming the incidents of beating of social activists in police custody and misbehave with women a shameful act and also gross violation of human right the speakers told that the Nitish Government was talking of 50 percent reservation of seats in panchayats and local bodies for women on the one hand and citizens including women were being beaten up in police custody by DSP using the name of Deputy CM on the other. Beating up ASHA workers mercilessly by police, police barbarity at Marwan (Muzaffarpur) on the citizens and women protesting against the construction of carcinogenic asbestos factory in the vicinity of densely populated area, Forbesganj, Goradi and recently in Nala Road, Patna was the attack on the right of seeking rights in peaceful manner. The women leaders demanded in one voice the dismissal of DSP Mr. Ramakant Prasad and other guilty officers, unconditional release of all the arrested persons, regular cleaning of drains and lanes and stop police repression on democratic mass movements.
Denouncing the incident of mass rape with a youth girl by Officer In charge and other police personals at Manjhi Police Station under Saran district, the speakers demanded the stern actions to the guilty police personals by probing the incident fairly.
The Meeting was presided over by Mrs. Sushila Sahay, State President, Bihar Mahila Samaj. The meeting was addressed by Rampari and Shankutala Devi from AIDWA, Anita Sinha, Patna District Secretary, AIPWA, Shivani Chaudhary and Chitralekha from Working Women Association and Sadhana Mishra, Anamika and Sandhya Maity from AIMSS. Later on a 5 member delegation submitted the memorandum to the Governor.

Student and woman organizations staged dharna for dismissal of Patna Town DSP Mr. Ramakant Prasad

Patna, August 24:

Protesting against the heinous action of the police on demonstrators peacefully protesting against water logging, garbage pile-up and extreme insanitary conditions in their locality, Longertoli Gali, Nala Road, on 12 August, different students’ and women organizations separately staged dharna at Bhagat Singh Chowk, Gandhi Maidan and demanded exemplary punishment to the guilty police officer the DSP Mr. Ramakant Prasad and unconditional release of arrested students and youths.

The students’ organizations comprising of All India Democratic students’ Organisation (AIDSO), Students’ Federation of India (SFI), All India Students’ Federation (AISF), All India Students’ Association (AISA) and Democratic Students’ Union (DSU) staged Joint Students dharna on Tuesday. The dharna was presided over by a presidium comprising of Anamika from AIDSO, Manoj Chandravanshi from SFI, Navaneet Kumar from AISF, Lais Rahi from AISA and Vikas from DSU. In course of their speech the student leaders asserted: The incident has proved the hollowness of good governance as proclaimed by the state govt. The way the protesters were beaten up severely, trampled upon chests of students and youths by DSP himself, even girl activists were misbehaved by police personnel and barbaric beaten up of them shows the undemocratic and repressive tendency of the Bihar govt. They said that democratic mass movement was under attack. Dharna was addressed by Umashankar Verman, Vice President of AIDSO, Vishwajit Kumar, State Secretary of AISF, Markandey Pathak of AISA and Vikas Kumar of DSU.

The Women organizations Jointly organized a dharna under the banner of Sanyukta Mahila, Sangharsha Morcha on Wednesday. The organizations like Bihar Mahila Samaj, All India progressive Women’ Organisation (AIPWA), Working Women Association, All India Democratic Women Association (AIDWA and All India Mahila Sanskritik Sangathan (AIMSS) participated in the dharna.

While addressing the gathering the speakers said: “The citizens of Langertoli Gali were demonstrating against water logging and sewage pile-up in their area. The Town DSP came to the spot and resorted lathicharge without any attempt at a dialogue. Sadhna Mishra was badly beaten up by the DSP and he threw a burning tire on another woman, Sumanlata Maurya aka Pinky. The burning tire singed the hair and clothes of this girl and she received a burn wound on her arm. 9 women and 5 male social activists were taken to Kadamkuan P.S. In the police station DSP Mr. Ramakant Prasad beat up the male activists mercilessly and trampled upon their chests with his boots like criminals and DSP twice slapped Sadhna Mishra hard and smashed her spectacles. Attempt was also made for sinister motive encircling the women. Only a woman police can arrest woman.” Terming the incident of beating of social activists in police custody and misbehave with women a shameful act and also gross violation of human right, the women leaders told Nitish Government was talking of 50 percent reservation of seats in panchayats and local bodies for women on the one hand and citizens including women were being beaten up in police custody by DSP using the name of Deputy CM on the other. Expressing deep concern over the incidents of raising attacks on mass movements women leaders said police is less active on ever increasing incidents of crimes, but it becomes very much active when people bid to register their protest on the problems they are facing. Beating up ASHA workers mercilessly by police, police repression at Marwan, Forbesganj, Goradi and recently in Nala Road, Patna unveil the reality of good governance. In spite of parroting good governance the Nitish government is now following the path of autocracy. The woman leaders demanded dismissal of DSP Mr. Ramakant Prasad and other guilty officers, unconditional release of all the arrested persons, regular cleaning of drains and lanes and stop police repression on democratic mass movements. Denouncing the incident of mass rape with a youth girl by Officer In charge and other police personals at Manjhi Police Station under Saran district. They demanded to arrest the guilty police officer and other police personels.

Dharna was presided over by Mrs. Sushila Sahay, State President, Bihar Mahila Samaj. Dharna was addressed by Sushila Sahay and Anita Mishra from Bihar Mahila Saman, Anita Sinha and Mdhy from AIPWA; Rampari and Shakulta from AIDWA; Shivani and Chitralekha from Working Women Association and Sadhana Mishra, Anamika and Sandhya Maity from AIMSS.

Solidarity March of students, youths and women in support of ongoing movement against corruption

Patna, August 19:

A solidarity march was taken out jointly here on Friday under the auspices of All India Democratic Students’ Organisation (AIDSO), All India Democratic Youth Organisation (AIDYO), All India Mahila Sanskritik Sangathan (AIMSS) and All India United Trade Union Centre (AIUTUC). The march started from Dinkar Golamber and traversing through Nala Road, Thakurbari Road, Bari Path reached Bhagat Singh Chowk. The participants were shouting slogans against corruption, increasing attack on democratic rights, police repression on peoples’ movement and in favour of building movement against corruption. The solidarity march conversed into a meeting at Bhagat Singh Chowk.

Addressing the meeting the speakers said that corruption is pervading all over the country and this is why the movement is getting support of different section of people. Expressing deep concern over the increasing attack on democratic mass movements by state machinery the speakers said that both the governments-whether it is UPA government in Central or the Nitish government in the state- are trampling down the democratic mass movements. They condemned the autocratic design of the government to shut the voice of the people and appealed to foil this heinous attempt. Denoumcing the barbaric lathicharge, arresting and severely beating up youths including women activists in police custody led by Town DSP Mr. Ramakant Prasad, they demanded unconditional immediate release of five youths; withdraw false cases implicated against them and suspension of Town DSP Mr. Ramakant Prasad.

The meeting was addressed by Uma Shankar Verma and Anamika, both Vice Presidents, Bihar State Committee, AIDSO; Deepak Kumar, All India Vice President and Anil Kumar Chand, Incharge, AIDYO Patna; Sandhya Maiti, State President, and Sadhana Mishra, State Secretary of AIMSS and Shivlal Prasad, Bihar Vice President, Arun Kumar and Baidyanath Sharma of AITUUC .

Shibdas Ghosh Memorial Meeting in Patna

Great leader of proletariat and one of the great Marxist thinker of this era Com. Shibdas Ghosh Memorial Meeting was held Bihar Hindi Sahitya Sanmelan, Kadam Kuan, Patna. Satyawan, Central Committtee Member, SUCI (Communist) was the main speaker of the meeting. Shiv Shankar, Secretary, Bihar State Committee, SUCI (Communist) presided over the meeting. Arun Kumar Singh, Senior State Committee Member, SUCI (Communist) moved resolution against bid to privatise of power, state transport, education, health and service sectors by Nitish government. The meeting started with the internationale and ended with the song composed on Com Shibdas Ghosh.

Police repression on the people protesting against civic problems in Patna

Patna, August 14:

Flowing of rotten garbage in water logged Langertoli Lane and emitting of bad smell is the usual phenomenon. SUCI (Communist) activists took initiative to build up movement against this civic problem Residents lent their support and joined the movement. Protest demonstration started at the crossing of Nala Road and Langertoli Lane on August 12 at 10’ 0 clock. As anger was accumulating amongst the residents against the administration, they blocked Nala Road. Street corner meeting was going on. After sometime Ramakant Prasad, Town DSP, reached suddenly on the spot and tried to snatch mike from Com. Anamika, State Vice President, AIDSO, and pushed her towards police van. She was addressing the people gathered there. DSP hit Sadhana Mishra, District Secretary, SUCI (Communist) severely by throwing her on the Road. Common people burst their anger and the mob became furious. After the arrival of DSP with a large contingent of police force, police started resorting to lathicharge indiscriminately and unarmed people were being beaten up chasing on the roads and lanes. DSP started throwing the pieces of burning tires on the body of girls standing on forefront of the protesters. Some hairs and scarf (Dupatta) of Com. Pinki was burnt. She got injury on upper part of her hand. DSP threw pieces of burning tires even on Sadhana Mishra. The palm ofNikolai Sharma, AIDSO Patna Office Secretary cut deeply and he had got 8 stitches. Police continued indiscriminate lathicharge for half an hour from Nala Road to Langertoli Lane. Police arrested 14 people, including 9 women. DSP Ramakant Prasad beat severely Suryakar Jitendra, State Secretary, Anil Kumar, Former Patna District Secretary, Saroj Kumar Suman, Patna District Secretary of AIDSO in police custody asking why were they doing ‘Netagiri’. After getting tired by beating he ordered the fellow police personals to continue it. When Sadhana Mishra protested in high voice the act of Town DSP, he abused her badly and pulled and moved her hair fiercely. He pulled her spectacle and threw on the wall. Under the leadership of DSP Patna police continued beating 5 people for half an hour. Women activists were released in the evening. But Suryakar Jitendra, Anil Kumar, Saroj Kumar Suman, Rahul Singh and Mohan Singh were sent to jail.

A Citizens’ March comprising of professors, teachers, cultural activists, journalists, social workers and human right activists was organized on the next day (13^th August) against severely lathicharge on local residents simply protesting against civic problems, severely beating up students leaders and misbehave with women leaders. The citizens’ march started from Bhagat Singh Chowk and reached Radio Station, where a meeting was held. All the speakers condemned in one voice the police repression on citizens. They demanded unconditional release of the arrested people, suspension of Town DSP and high level enquiry of the incident. The dignitaries who took part in Citizens’ March were eminent Economist Prof. Nawal Kishore Chaudhary, Prof. Vinay Kumar Kanth, Arvind Sinha, Rupesh, Chakrabarty Ashok Priyadarshi, Ashish Ranjan, Poonam, Nand Kishore Singh, Narendra Kumar, Vinod Kumar, Ajay Kumar Sinha, Anish Ankur, Sarfaraj, Shreekant, Baldeo Jha, Jay Prakash, Girija Ranjan Singh, Bal Govind Singh, Ajay Prasad, Com Arun Kumar Singh and Com Sadhana Mishra.

On 14^th of August torchlight (Mashal Julus) procession of students and youths was taken out from Langertoli Lane to Dinkar roundabout. The procession turned into a street corner meeting at Dinkar roundabout. The Meeting was addressed by Indradeo Ray, Secretary, AIDYO Bihar, Sadhana Mishra, Patna District Secretary, SUCI (Cmmunist), Anamika, Vice President, Bihar AIDSO, Rajeev Kumar Sharma and Pushpa. While addressing meeting the speakers narrated the police atrocities on citizens. They opined that the regime recollects the emergency clamped by the then despotic Indira Gandhi. This kind of police atrocity with citizens, especially with women on the road and inside the police lockup is unpardonable in civilized society.