Addressing the gathering were BKU (Ekta) Ugrahan District President Chamkaur Singh Nainiwal and General Secretary Jarnail Singh Badra; BKU (Dakaunda) Dhaner leader Bhola Singh Chhanna; Krantikari Kisan Union (Buttar) leader Janta Singh Dhaula; Mazdoor Adhikar Andolan TUCI Punjab leader Comrade Labh Singh Akalia; BKU Dakaunda Burjgil leader Darshan Singh Ugoke; Punjab Kisan Union leaders Jagga Singh Badra, Binder Kaur Bhadaur, and Ranjit Kaur Patti Sekhwan, among others.

The speakers stated that the “fascist” Modi government is rapidly passing pro-corporate, anti-people black laws, which have pushed workers and farmers into worsening conditions, while benefiting highly corrupt crony corporate houses such as Adani and Ambani.

Labour leaders alleged that the Modi government is dismantling the MGNREGA Act, thereby increasing unemployment among poor workers and further worsening the condition of the toiling masses. They said that in the interest of domestic and foreign corporate houses, the government has scrapped 44 labour laws and implemented four anti-worker Labour Codes. Replacing the eight-hour workday with a twelve-hour workday, they claimed, will intensify economic exploitation of workers and employees while directly benefiting big capitalists.

The new trade agreement between Prime Minister Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump, they said, is entirely against Indian farmers and working people and will benefit foreign companies and big corporate houses. The leaders alleged that the Modi government has completely bowed before what they described as U.S. imperialist policies under Trump. They warned that the agreement would increase exploitation of farmers cultivating soybean, cotton, fruits, pulses, vegetables, and sorghum, and would severely impact the country’s agricultural marketing system.

They further alleged that through the Electricity Amendment Bill 2025 and the Seed Act, the Modi government is handing over crucial sectors to corporate houses, leading to privatisation of electricity and the withdrawal of facilities available to poor people. With poverty, inflation, and unemployment already severely affecting citizens, they claimed that 85 percent of the toiling and oppressed population now faces devastation.

For these reasons, the joint front of farmers’ and workers’ organisations has been holding protest demonstrations across Punjab in front of the residences of BJP and Aam Aadmi Party leaders against what they described as anti-people policies of the Modi government and the Punjab government. The leaders demanded that the Aam Aadmi Party immediately fulfill its electoral promises, repeal the new GRG law, the four Labour Codes, and the trade agreement with the United States, and abolish the contract system while ensuring permanent employment for workers and employees.

Other speakers at the protest included Darshan Singh Mehta, Malkit Singh Sandhu Kalan, Jarnail Singh Dhaula, and labour leader Nachhattar Singh Ramnagar.

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The procession began from Nalghar Chowk in the capital city of Raipur and marched to the Budhatalab protest site, where it culminated in a public meeting.

The chief guest of the program was Comrade Janak Lal Thakur, former MLA and President of Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha. The event was conducted by Amarjeet Patel, Convenor of Moolnivasi Sangh Chhattisgarh.

Speakers included prominent intellectual Vishnu Baghel; Comrade Saura, State Secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Red Star; Comrade Tuhin, All India Convenor of the Caste Annihilation Movement (CAM) and the Revolutionary Cultural Forum; Advocate Bhanjan Jangde; Dashrath Ahirwar; Savita Bauddh Sankalpi, Convenor of the Buddhist Pracharak Wing, Chhattisgarh; Advocate Surekha Jangde; Advocate Shakir Qureshi, All India General Secretary of Rashtriya Muslim Morcha; Shyam Murat Kaushik, Convenor of Chhattisgarh Kisan Mazdoor Sangh; Akhilesh Edgar, Convenor of Progressive Christian Alliance Chhattisgarh; Advocate Katyayani Verma; Shagun Verma; Chandraprakash Dhidhi; retired Judge Prabhakar Gwal; and Jayashree Bauddh.

At the conclusion of the demonstration, a memorandum addressed to the President of India was submitted to government officials on behalf of Moolnivasi Sangh Chhattisgarh.

The demonstrators took an oath to defend the Indian Constitution drafted by Babasaheb Dr. B. R. Ambedkar and to safeguard democracy. They also resolved to unite all progressive democratic forces—including Dalits, oppressed communities, Adivasis, women, and minorities—to launch a struggle for the creation of an egalitarian society and against the imposition of a inhuman caste-based Hindu Rashtra and its constitution in the form of the cruel Manusmriti by RSS Manuvadi, fascist forces upon the 85 percent Bahujan Moolnivasi population of the country.

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As part of the strike, a sit-in demonstration was held at Nehru Chowk, Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh), organized by the Trade Union Council, Bilaspur. The program was presided over by Comrade Pawan Sharma of the Trade Union Council, Bilaspur, and conducted by Comrade Rajesh Sharma of the LIC Employees’ Union.

Those who addressed the gathering included former MLA and President of Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha, Janak Lal Thakur; CPI (ML) Red Star State Secretary Comrade Saura; All India Convenor of the Revolutionary Cultural Forum (RCF) and the Caste Annihilation Movement (CAM), Comrade Tuhin; senior Railway Union leader Comrade Ravi Banerjee; senior Left leader Comrade Nand Kashyap; Comrade Pramod of the Bank Union; President of Jan Chetna Party, Sardar Jasbir Singh Chawla; Convenor of Kisan Mazdoor Sangh Chhattisgarh, Comrade Shyam Murat Kaushik; Comrade Lalan Prasad of AICCTU ; Comrade S. K. Jain; Comrade Vijay Mudaliyar of the SECL Union; former MLA Siyaram Kaushik; Alka Gupta of the LIC Employees’ Union; Comrade Mahesh Shrivas of the Chhattisgarh Electricity Employees’ Union; AITUC leader Comrade Haridwar Singh; Comrade Narayan Chaudhari; Mahesh Gangotri and Rakesh Sharma of the Congress; leader of the Government Employees’ Union Comrade P. R. Yadav; leader of the Lingiyadih Bachao Andolan and Councillor Dilip Patil, among many others.

Comrade Tuhin presented revolutionary song at the gathering.

At the conclusion of the protest, a memorandum addressed to the President of India on behalf of the workers’ organizations was submitted to the SDM, Bilaspur. Along with various mass organizations, a large number of activists from the Lingiyadih Bachao Andolan also participated in the demonstration.

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Ballia: On January 16th, at the district headquarters, a public meeting and protest were held at the call of the United Farmers’ Front (Samyukt Kisan Morcha) demanding the withdrawal of the #proposed Electricity Bill 2025, the #four anti-labor codes, the #VBG Ramji (Viksit Bharat Guarantee Employment and Livelihood Mission Rural), and the #proposed new Seed Bill 2025, as well as demanding loan waivers and a law guaranteeing #MSP (Minimum Support Price). Following the protest, a memorandum addressed to the President was handed over to the administrative officer representing the District Magistrate. The protest saw participation from the #Inquilabi Mazdoor Kendra, #Krantikari Lok Adhikar Sangathan, #Uttar Pradesh Kisan Sabha, #Uttar Pradesh Kisan Sabha, Kisan Mahasabha, All India Revolutionary Kisan Sabha (AIKKS), Trade Union Centre of India (TUCI), Uttar Pradesh MNREGA Workers Union, Uttar Pradesh Agriculture Workers Union, Kisan Front, and #Krantikari Kisan Union.

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The chief speaker at the protest meeting was renowned human rights activist Bhawar Meghwanshi, National Secretary of the PUCL. The meeting was chaired by Comrade Lakhan Subodh, Convenor of PMSM and President of GSS. Ramnarayan Baghel’s wife, Mrs. Lalita, was specially present at the programme. The proceedings were conducted by Comrade Kaladas, State General Secretary of PUCL.

Other speakers included PUCL State President Junoos Tirkey; folk singer Asha Subodh; Advocate Priyanka Shukla; Comrade Manharan Yadav, leader of the Inquilabi Mazdoor Sangathan; Rameshwar Kurre of the Migrant Workers’ Organisation; Comrade Lakhan Singh of the CPI; Pastor Anishcharan; Comrade Tuhin, All-India Convenor of the Caste Annihilation Movement; Wahid Ali Siddiqui, State Vice-President of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind; AAP leader Jasbir Singh; and former judge Prabhakar Gwal. Comrade Kaladas and Asha Subodh presented revolutionary mass songs.

In the protest meeting, it was unanimously resolved that the fascist RSS and its affiliated organisations—Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad—are responsible, both in the state and across the country, for spreading hatred and division, unleashing communal violence against minorities, especially Muslims and Christians, as well as against Dalits, oppressed sections, women and Adivasi communities, and for undermining the Constitution of India and the country’s pluralistic traditions. The administration was therefore urged to impose a ban on these communal organisations.

Demands were raised before the Kerala and Chhattisgarh governments to provide adequate compensation to the family of Ramnarayan Baghel. A resolution was also passed demanding that the Kerala government ensure strict punishment for the Sangh-affiliated, Manuvadi criminals responsible for the murder and take firm measures to curb communal fascist saffron gangs in the state of Kerala.

The protest meeting unanimously adopted a pledge to build united resistance—from Parliament to the streets—by all progressive democratic forces and the exploited and oppressed people against the fascist Sangh Parivar and its brutal, Manusmriti-based Hindutva state project.

Representatives of major mass organisations of the state participated in the anger protest meeting.

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The meeting discussed the indifference, extreme insensitivity, and apathy of the BJP state government towards the problems of Anganwadi workers and helpers, as well as the strategy for struggle against this anti-worker attitude.

During the meeting, the contribution of Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule to women’s education and the women’s liberation movement was remembered with deep respect.

The meeting strongly condemned the prevailing situation in the country where rapists are being granted bail, while activists of people’s struggles are being sent to jail.

It was also decided to intensify the struggle for gender equality against Hindutva-driven patriarchy by observing International Women’s Day on March 8 in a militant and spirited manner. The meeting further resolved to invite militant and leading women activists from different states who are fighting against women’s oppression to the March 8 public meeting.

The meeting was attended by union office-bearers Hema Bharti, Durga Yadav, Lakshmi Kosle, Khileshwar Sahu,Kunti Sahu ,Rajeshwari Soni,Shashi Sahu,Anju Sonwani,Radha Tandon and Organisation Secretary Comrade Saura spoke Com. Tuhin of RCF sang revolutionary song.Hemant Tandon,Than Singh Mandey along with several other union members have participated.

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Unnao Minor Rape Accused Kuldeep Singh Sengar’s Life Imprisonment Stay:A Planned Murder of the Judicial System –

Mass Protest Against Delhi High Court’s Unjust Order

Bhubaneswar, 27/12/25: The stay on life imprisonment of BJP leader and former MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the Unnao minor rape case in Uttar Pradesh has been opposed by various human rights and democratic organizations. Branding it as a planned murder of the judicial system and a miscarriage of justice, a mass protest was organized today at Protest Square (Master Canteen Chowk) in Bhubaneswar against this inhumane and unjust order.

The stay on the sentence of former MLA and BJP leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the Unnao rape case has been legally flawed and problematic, according to various quarters, and protests are being held across the country against it. This Delhi High Court directive is not based on any primary evidence showing the accused as innocent; rather, legal experts have expressed that such a directive has been issued due to misclassification of the crime. In the Unnao rape case, the recent Delhi High Court directive to stay the sentence of former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar has sparked agitation in various quarters, as it overlooks the seriousness of the crime while following the interpretation of the term ‘public servant.’

In this context, various human rights and democratic rights organizations have immediately demanded that the Delhi High Court should cancel this unjust order and have called for the intervention of the Supreme Court to deliver justice to the victim.
Essentially, the court noted that a sitting MLA is not a ‘government servant’ under Section 21 of the Indian Penal Code. On this argument, it was concluded that Section 5(c) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, which makes sexual assault by a public servant a serious offence, is not applicable to him. The court further held that Section 376(2) of the Indian Penal Code, which also makes rape by a public servant an aggravated offence, is not applicable to Kuldeep Singh Sengar. Consequently, it held that the sentence of imprisonment for the remainder of his life awarded under this provision cannot be sustained.

But the court’s interpretation that an MLA is not a “public servant” for the purposes of Section 5(c) of the POCSO Act seems to be valid in view of a syllabus and technical textbook which adopts the definition given in the POCSO Act, the Indian Penal Code. However, if we disregard the application of Section 5(c), then Sengar can be held guilty of sexual assault of a minor girl under Section 4 of the POCSO Act, which is punishable with life imprisonment. Similarly, life imprisonment is also attracted for the offence of rape under Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code. Even after accepting the Court’s view on the application of Section 5(c) of the POCSO Act, the order of stay of execution in a case involving life imprisonment for serious sexual offences is not acceptable.

Protesters like Pramila and Henarani of the All India Revolutionary Women’s Organization, Narendra Mohanty of the Campaign Against Fabricated Cases, Basanti Acharya and Mohammed Sukur from the Humanist Rationalist Organization, Debendra Sutar, Chairman of the Civil Society Forum for Human Rights, Deb Prasad Roy of the Lohia Academy, human rights activist Advocate Bishwapriya Kanungo, columnist Ranga Charan Pradhan, social activist Subhashini Bhadra, human rights activist Pradeepta Nayak, social activist Sharmishtha Nath, Rumita Kundu, Dilip Nayak , Arnapura, Jagannath Nayak, Puja Das, Kavita Jena, Rajni Behera from Basti Suraksha Manch, senior lawyer Khirod Raut, poet Lelin Kumar took the lead in today’s protest.

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On 18 December, a large village meeting was organised near Rampura, in village Bugar (Bathinda, Punjab), by the Mazdoor Adhikar Andolan Punjab and the Trade Union Centre of India. During the meeting, an effigy of the fascist Modi government was burnt.

Addressing the gathering, Comrade Labh Singh Aklia, Provincial Secretary of Mazdoor Adhikar Andolan Punjab and Central Committee Member of the Trade Union Centre of India, along with Comrade Nashtar Singh, stated that the Modi government has for a long time been engaged in dismantling the MGNREGA law. This extremely anti-worker government has continuously reduced the budget allocation for MGNREGA and has also restricted the funds allocated to states under the scheme.

Now, the Modi government has amended the MGNREGA law, removed the name of Mahatma Gandhi, and, in a ridiculous move in line with the fascist Sangh Parivar’s Hindutva Rashtra project, has passed a new law in the Winter Session of Parliament under the name “Ji Ram Ji 2025”. Under this new law, the right to demand of employment has been abolished. At the same time, the central government has shifted its financial responsibility onto the states.

Progressive workers’ organisations across the country are strongly opposing this move. At the meeting, working class leaders demanded that this new law be immediately repealed. They also demanded year-round employment for workers, a daily wage of ₹700, and a guarantee of year-round employment for two members of each family.

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Karnataka Raitha Sangha AIKKS
Taluk Samiti Maski
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Appeal Letter

To
The Tahsildar
Maski Taluk
Raichur District

Subject: Appeal to take immediate action against the negligence, corruption and anti-people activities of the administration in the limits of Balganur Town Panchayat.

We, Karnataka Raitha Sangha (AIKKS), Taluk Samiti Maski, hereby express our strong indignation against the anarchy, complete failure of the administration and the conditions that are making the lives of the people hell in the limits of Balganur Town Panchayat.

Balganur Cross, Sri Basaveshwara Nagar, Survey No. 509, in the year 2005-06, a purchase agreement was made in the name of Shri Hanumanthappa’s father Durugappa for public housing from Bhimappa’s father Pamappa, and about 100 families are living in it. According to the boundary of the said land, there is Balganur Goudanabhavi Road to the east, a 5-foot wide road to the west, Balganur Goudanabhavi Road to the north, and a 12-foot wide road to the south. In this, the 5-foot wide road to the west has been blocked by private individuals for no reason by planting trees, so we request that it be immediately cleared and made open to the public and the people living in this place. Similarly, we demand that Baba Saheb Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Bhavan and a high-tech toilet be constructed for the public in the said available place.

Similarly, the people of the town panchayat area have been wandering for basic facilities for about years, and the concerned authorities have turned a blind eye. The situation has developed where the administration is attacking the lives, health and dignity of the people. We clearly warn that an organized struggle is inevitable if immediate action is not taken on the following serious issues.

Our main demands:

1. Balganur Cross, Sri Basaveshwara Nagar, S.No. 509/23, a 5-foot wide road to the west has been blocked with trees and bells and should be cleared immediately.
2. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Bhavan should be constructed at Balganur Cross, Sri Basaveshwara Nagar. And a high-tech toilet should be constructed for the public.
3. Illegal sand mining should be stopped completely. The roads have been damaged by illegal sand tippers running day and night, posing a threat to people’s lives. All tippers should be stopped immediately and strict legal action should be taken against those concerned.
4. Narayana Nagar Camp, Lakshmi Camp and Basaveshwara Nagar (Cross) houses should be included in the demand list and comprehensively developed. These areas have been deliberately deprived of development. Road, water, electricity and sewage system should be provided immediately by including them in the demand.
5. The open defecation system should be completely abolished. The government’s announcements are limited to paper only, and people are still in a state of defecating in the open. This is an attack on the dignity and health of the people.
6. Continuous supply of clean drinking water should be ensured. People are getting sick due to unclean water. Clean drinking water system should be implemented immediately.
7. The dumps on the main road side, which are causing ill health to the people and spoiling the beauty of the town, should be removed immediately. These dumps are causing foul smell, disease and environmental damage.
8. The open toilet next to the government hospital should be removed immediately. This situation right next to the hospital is a clear evidence of the shamelessness of the administration.
9. The inhumane practice of dumping all the town’s garbage in the ditch should be stopped immediately. This is not only environmental destruction, but will also be a curse for the next generation.
10. A high-level investigation should be conducted into the increasing corruption in the town panchayat. Public money is being looted in the name of development works. Strict action should be taken against the guilty officials and contractors.
11. Street lights should be installed immediately from Malegaddi to Cross. Accidents and crimes are increasing due to darkness. This is a direct threat to the safety of the people.
12. The problem of lack of a sewage system should be resolved immediately. Dirty water is flowing on the road itself, ruining the health of the people.
13. A government first-grade college should be sanctioned for Balaganur town and a hostel for boys and girls should be constructed.

All these problems are not new. But due to the negligence of the administration, the people have reached the brink of explosion. If this appeal is not responded to immediately and the issues are not resolved within the stipulated time frame, a violent protest, road blockade and public movement will be held in front of the Balaganur Town Panchayat office under the leadership of the Karnataka Raitha Sangha (AIKKS). The administration will be fully responsible for it.

We demand that this should not be considered as just an appeal, but as a warning and wake-up call for the people.

Place: Maski
Date: 15.12.2025

With regards

Karnataka Raitha Sangha AIKKS
Taluk Committee, Maski

M. Gangadhar
State Committee Member
CPI(ML)Red Star

Venkatesh Nayak
Taluk Secretary
CPI(ML)Red Star

President: Santosh Hiredinni
Karnataka Raitha Sangha AIKKS
General Secretary

Maruti Jinnapur
Karnataka Raitha Sangha AIKKS

The above appeal was submitted by sit-in protest staged near the Ambedkar statue and raised slogans, appealing to Tahsildar Manjunath Bhogavathi to resolve the issue immediately.

On this occasion, Basavaraj Ekki, Balaganur, Tirupati, Durugappa, Hulugappa, Shantamurthy, Mariyappa, Durugappa, Sharanappa, Shivappa, Hanumantha, Huchappa, Yankappa and others were present.

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