People's Issues were Raised by SUCI (C) in its Massive Rally

Patna:

Prices of essential commodities, including food items are going up every day. The traders, black marketeers and illegal hoarders are looting common people by enhancing the prices of commodities at their whims, while the state and central government are allowing them to do so.  The people of the state are suffering from the problem of drought and flood. Even they are not getting sufficient relief. Parroting development and good governance the state government is introducing the same anti people policies of the Congress led UPA government in Centre. The electricity has been privatized and its tariffs have been enhanced excessively. Build up by the hard earned money of common people the Bihar State Road Transport Corporation has been handed over to private owners under the name of Public Private Partnership. The fares of buses and autos have been increased excessively. The education and health is in such a condition that these can only be availed if one has sufficient money.

The children from the families of toiling and poor people are not getting education. The health services are out of the reach of the common people. The recruitments in government departments are closed, posts are being removed. It is being done on contract basis. Holding taxes in cities and towns are increased by two times. But there are no civic amenities. The incidents of rape, murder, sexual harassment and atrocities on women are on increase. Youths are migrating in other states in search of job, but they are not able to even lead a life with dignity. As a whole the common people are compelled to live in a suffocating condition.

In such a horrifying situation all the parliamentary parties in the state including Congress, BJP, JD(U) and RJD are badly involved in the game of electoral alliances and different kinds of equations to grab political power leaving behind the issues of common people. But the SUCI (Communist), the only genuine revolutionary party of the toiling people of India is trying its best to build up mass movements on the burning issues of people’s life. In the continuation of building up mass movements in the state the SUCI (Communist) organized a huge demonstration here in Patna on 30^th September 2013 before Chief Minister against sky rocketing price hike; unemployment; rising crimes on women; privatization of education, health, power and transport and for providing sufficient relief to the drought and flood victims and for its permanent solution. The well decorated and large procession of farmers, agricultural labourers, students, youths and women coming from different districts was taken out from Gandhi Maidan. The participants were shouting thunderous slogans against anti people policies of the government and demanded its rollback. On the one hand the anguish of the participants against the anti people policies and the government was clearly experienced and the people standing on the road side were watching the huge procession with deep hope and admiration on the other. Some were seen commenting like- the procession is really on people’s issue. The procession conversed in a big rally at R block after police blocked the procession to march ahead.

Addressing the mammoth gathering at R Block Arun Kumar Singh, senior member, SUCI (Communist) Bihar State Committee said that the people’s problems were not solved through election and through changing the government. He stressed the need to straighten mass movements involving the people of all sections. Presiding over the mass meeting Shiv Shankar, Secretary, SUCI (Communist) Bihar State Committee said that capitalism was unable to solve all the burning problems of day to day life in our society. “Capitalism cannot advance society further”, he asserted and appealed the common people to build up militant mass movements conducive to the anti capitalist socialist revolution. Among others who addressed the meeting were Sadhana Mishra, Arjun Kumar, Lalbabu Mahato, Pramod Kumar, Krishnadeo Sah, Lalit Kumar Ghosh and Uma Shankar Verma, all members, SUCI (Communist) Bihar State Committee. Later a five member delegation submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister.       

AIDSO Protest march in Patna

Patna, July 25:  

All India Democratic Students’ Organisation Patna District Committee took out a protest march from Patna College to Shaheed Bhagat Singh Chowk on Thursday on its All India Protest Day. The Organisation raised the issues of the deaths of 23 children consuming midday meal at Saran, fee hike, privatisation and commercialization of education, security of girl students, private university bill, semester system and reintroduction of pass-fail system. Students were shouting thunderous slogans against anti education policies of central and state governments. A protest meeting was held at Shaheed Bhagat Singh Chowk, which was addressed among others Anil Kumar, secretary, AIDSO, Bihar State Committee, Saroj Kumar Suman, Secretary, AIDSO, Patna District Committee, Nikolai Sharma, Rajeev Kumar Sharma, Pushpa and Sumanlata Maurya. Later a memorandum of seven point charter of demands addressed to the union Human Resource Development Minister was sent through the governor by fax.

Protest of Worst Midday Meal tragedy in Bihar

Patna, July 17:

27 children died and many others got seriously ill after eating their midday meal at Dharmsati Primary School under Mashrak bloc in Saran District. SUCI (Communist) Bihar State Committee termed the incident country’s worst midday meal tragedy. Shiv Shankar, Sercretary, SUCI (Communist) Bihar State Committee, said in a press statement that the deaths due to consuming poisonous midday meal was the outcome of utter negligence of the state government. He demanded high level impartial judicial inquiry of the incident so that the culprits could be brought out in public and stern punishment could be meted out against them. “The deaths could have been avoided if the local Primary Health Centre and even the Sadar Hospital were equipped and have sufficient doctors and staffs,” he added. He demanded Rupees 10 lacks compensation to parents of each victims and proper treatment of ill children at government expense.

SUCI (Communist) Bihar State Committee called All Bihar protest day on 17^th July the next day of the tragedy. Under the auspices of Patna District Committee of the party a protest meeting was held amid thunderous slogans against the State Government and effigy of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was burnt at Patna Junction roundabout. Sadhana Mishra, Member, Bihar State Committee cum Secretary, SUCI (Communist), Patna District Committee, M K Pathak, Suryakar Jitendra and Rajkumar Chaudhary, all Members, Bihar State Committee, SUCI (Communist) addressed the meeting.

On All Bihar protest day, party workers and supporters took out a protest demonstration at Muzaffarpur which traversing the main thoroughfares of the city reached Kalyani Chowk, where a protest meeting was held. Among others the meeting was addressed by Arjun Kumar, Member, Bihar State Committee cum Secretary, SUCI (Communist), Muzaffarpur District Committee and Lalbabu Mahato, Member, Bihar State Committee, SUCI (Communist).

In Munger protest demonstration and meeting was held at Jamalpur. Amid thunderous slogans against State Government protest meeting was held at Jubilee Well. Among others it was addressed by Pramod Kumar, Member, Bihar State Committee cum Secretary, SUCI (Communist), Munger District Committee and Jyoti Kumar, Secretary, SUCI (Communist), Jamalpur Local Committee.

Protest demonstrations were also held at Darbhanga, Jehanabad and Kurtha in Arwal district. 

Discussion on “Present Economic-Social-Political Crisis and the Role of Progressive Forces” organised

Patna, July 7:

Under the auspices of SUCI (Communist) Patna District Committee a discussion was organized at Indian Medical Association Hall here on Sunday. The topic of discussion was: Present Economic-Social-Political Crisis and the Role of Progressive Forces. Amitabh Chatterjee, Member, Editorial Board, Ganadabi (a Bengali Weekly) and Member, SUCI (Communist), West Bengal State Committee said as main speaker that the whole world was crying for change. The whole economic system was reeling under acute recession. The capitalist economic-social system had reached in its decadent phase resulting unprecedented crisis of human values, ethics and morality. 

 

Amitabh Chatterjee speaking

“Only a handful of people are getting rich while most are becoming ruined. The vast masses of the country have been deceiving in the name of development since independence. Lacks of farmers have been forced to commit suicide. Innumerable factories are closed resulting retrenchment of lacks of workers and employees. Common people are suffering from the  unbearable pain of price hike,” he said dealing the economic condition of the country. Dealing the present political crisis, Mr. Chatterjee said, “All the parliamentary parties like Congress, BJP, JD (U), RJD are sub serving the interest of capitalist class. Once the students and youths considered the political leaders as their role model, they dreamt to be like them, but now no one is interested to follow their characters. Almost all the leaders of national and state parties are corrupt from top to bottom. They are engaged in different scams and unscrupulous activities.”

Prof. Devendra Prasad speaking

Speaking on Bihar, he said, “In the name of good governance and social justice the Nitish Government is following the same anti people policies of privatization, commercialization and PPP as the Congress led UPA Government is following at Centre and the erstwhile RJD Government followed in the state. The atrocities on women and crime are on increase. The Government is not only making its frantic efforts to privatize the field of education, health, public transport and Municipal Corporations but suppressing the mass movements of different section of people erupting everywhere in the state. ”

Showing deep concern over the increasing incidents of rape, murder, abduction and suicide he said that the capitalist social system based on earning maximum profit was breeding all these. The indifferent attitudes of students and youths towards society, degradation in social and human values, lack of sense of social responsibility and not last but least the growing disrespect to elders are all derived from the present exploitative system.

 

A section of gathering

 Discussing on the role of progressive forces in such a condition he said that we should all make our best efforts to build up mass movements on different democratic legitimate demands of people. In course of building up mass movements on the burning issues of people’s lives broader unity may be forged comprising different left, democratic and progressive forces. He suggested forming public committees at every level of the movement, which would lead the movement to its final victory. At last he urged the people assembled to be a part of the ongoing struggle for replacing this capitalist society, the root of all evils manifesting here and there by a class less socialist society.

Prof. Devendra Prasad, retd. Professor of Patna University presided over the discussion. Prof. Nawal Kishore Chaudhary, Renowned Economist; Bal Govind Singh, R N Jha and Sadhana Mishra, Secretary, SUCI (Communist) Patna District Committee took part in discussion. Arun Kumar Singh, Senior Member, SUCI (Communist) Bihar State Committee was also present on dais. Many intellectuals were present in the programme.

Farmers of Khagaria are on war path against grabbing their fertile lands

Patna / Khagari, June 6: 

Parroting the popular slogans like ‘good governance’, and ‘development with justice’ the JDU-BJP government headed by Nitish Kumar in Bihar is talking for launching the schemes of agricultural map for the progress and happiness of farmers. But in reality the clique of ministers, MLAs and officials is utterly violating the norms and laws of their own government by using administrative power.

At Mansi under the Khagaria district each and every ploy is being used to provide fertile agricultural and residential land to private companies grabbing from the farmers. In the name of growth centre under BIADA (Bihar Industrial Area Authority) the process of land acquisition was started in 1986-87 at Mansi. But K. K. Pathak, the then director of BIADA and Mayank Badbade, District Collector of Khagaria ordered to nullify the process of land acquisition after getting the complaints of irregularities in the process of acquisition and farmers’ protest. In spite of that the Land Acquisition Officer, Khagaria issued the order of losing the ownership of farmers on their lands utterly violating the article 11 A of Land Acquisition Act and the order of K. K. Pathak and Mayank Badbade. This wrongful act was done only to get position of the land by Pristine Logistics and Infra Projects Pvt. Ltd., patronized by the leaders of ruling alliance in Bihar. But the farmers are committed to wage relentless struggle under the banner of Upjau Bhoomi Bachao Sangharsha Samiti (Struggle Committee to Save Fertile Lands ) for saving their fertile and residential land. The SUCI (Communist) and other left and democratic parties have extended their support to the struggling farmers. The leaders of different left and democratic parties including Arun Kumar Singh, senior leader, SUCI (C), Satya Narayan Singh, former MLA of CPI and renowned social activist and Magsaysay awardees Dr. Sandip Pandey took part along with the farmers in protest march from Khutia to Khagaria Collectariat and expressed their solidarity with the struggling farmers in the meeting organized after the march at Khagaria Collectariat. In the mean time the goons of Pristine Company fatally attacked the farmers several times injuring dozens of farmers among them three farmers and a seventy five year old lady are under treatment at Patna Medical College and Hospital for months. The district administration is silent over the demand of arresting the named accused involved in attack. Not only this, without circulating advertisements in media the Company is cheating lacks of rupees from unemployed farmers in broad day light in the name of providing job. The innocent unemployed are being used to attack the farmers struggling to save their lands. In spite of giving written information of the incidents, no action has been taken against the cheaters and attackers.

 
In such a situation under the joint banner of Sarvadaliya Samiti, Khagaria and Upjau Bhoomi Bachao Sangharsha Samiti a massive dharna was held before District Magistrate, Khagaria on June 6, 2013. The massive dharna demanded stopping of grabbing lands of farmers in unjustified and unlawful manner, arresting of named accused involved in the attack of farmers, probing of the move of providing jobs, withdrawing of false cases implicated against the protesters, removable of the camp of Pristine Company from lands of farmers and immediate release of the protesters including Kamal Kishore Yadav, Convener, Upjau  Bhoomi Bachao Sangharsha Samiti. The dharna was presided over by Sita Ram Ray and conducted by SUCI (Communist) leader Jitendra Kumar. In course of addressing the dharna Arun Kumar Singh, senior leader, SUCI (C) urged the farmers to take lessons from the struggle and victory of the movement of farmers of Nandigram and Singur in their struggle and to build up mighty and sustained movement against grabbing the fertile lands by unjust and unlawful way by the clique of ministers, MLAs and officials. Among others who spoke on the occasion were former MLA Satya Narayan Singh and SUCI (C) State Committee Member Indradeo Ray. After the dharna was over a delegation met to DM and submitted him a memorandum of seven point’s charter of demands.   

Citizen convention to get civil amenities in Patna

Patna, June 4: 

When the common people are reeling under acute price rise, the government and its different agencies/institutions are increasing the burden of taxes. The common people of

From Left: Naresh Kumar, Anamika & Jagadish Prasad

Bihar and of its capital Patna have the same fate. Recently the holding tax has been increased two times byPatna Municipal Corporation.  Not only this, the registry fee has been enhanced by increasing the government rate of lands. The rates for water supply and cleanness has been increased. Even the holding tax has been imposed on unused lands. On the other hand the record of Patna Municipal Corporation is very bad regarding the cleanness of the city, maintenance of parks, arrangement of street lights, supply of drinking water and other civil amenities. No proper arrangement is there in different wards and localities to collect garbage. Dumps of garbage and rubbish are  commonly visible in the major localities, lanes and roads. The announcement of cleaning of underground drains, open drains and chambers goes wind the winds. A scene of hell in rainy season is quite visible in major localities. Even Patna Municipal Corporation and Patna Jal Parshad is not efficient in proper supply of water. In night, practically there is no street lights arrangement even on the main roads and lanes. Majority of parks are in worst condition due to lack of sufficient staff. No arrangements are made for the prevention of rapid growing of mosquitoes. Municipal Corporation is suffering from the acute shortage of permanent employees.

Anamika addressing the citizens

The citizens of Patna have started organizing under the  banner of Nagrik Sangharsha Samiti (Citizens Struggle Committee) against the anti democratic and anti people steps of Patna Municipal Corporation. At first a dharna was staged at Dinkar Roundabout, Nala Road to press demands. And on 4^th June, 2013 a Citizen’s Convention was organized at IMA Hall.

Sadhana Mishra, Secretar, SUCI (Communist) Patna District Committee and Suryakar Jitendra, Member, SUCI (Communist) Patna District Committee addressed the convention among others. They said, “The governments proclaiming themselves as public welfare state are shirking the social responsibilities gradually and are inclining to submit those all to private owners. As a result majority of people are condemned to live under utter poverty and destitution. In the name of ‘good governance’ and ‘development with justice’ the state government too following the same anti people and pro capitalist policies of privatization, liberalization and globalization.” The speakers observed that the total apathy and indifferent attitude of Government, Municipal Corporation and administration towards availing the civil amenities to citizens and much activeness in increasing the burden of taxes left no other alternative but the struggle against it. The convention was addressed by many social and political activists along with some ward councilors. All the speakers appealed the citizens and stressed the need to develop united and sustained movement against the anti people steps and for availing civil amenities. The main resolution of the convention was moved by Mohan Prasad, Convener, Nagrik Sangharsha Samiti and conducted by a 5 member presidium including Anamika, Member, SUCI (Communist) Patna District Committee.