*Suppression of Democratic Voices at Jantar Mantar Is an Open Display of the Fascist Character of the Modi Government!*

*Gyanesh Kumar Must Resign! Release All Detained Protesters Immediately!*

New Delhi, October 2, 2026: The Delhi Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Red Star strongly condemns the repressive action taken by the Delhi Police against the peaceful protest held today at Jantar Mantar, demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and an impartial investigation into serious questions surrounding the electoral process.

Several protesters, including activists of the Delhi Committee of CPI (ML) Red Star and the All India Revolutionary Students’ Organisation (AIRSO), were detained by the police. They continue to be held at various police stations. This attempt to crush peaceful dissent through barricading, detention, and police force is yet another demonstration of the anti-democratic and repressive approach of the Modi government.

At a time when serious questions are being raised about the impartiality of the Election Commission, detaining protesters instead of addressing these concerns constitutes a direct assault on democracy. The Modi–Shah government and its police must understand that the constitutional rights of citizens cannot be crushed by force, nor can the government evade accountability or silence voices raising concerns over the crisis of democracy.

The action at Jantar Mantar is not merely a case of repression against protesters; it is part of a broader assault on dissent, protest, and civil liberties. In a democracy, questioning those in power is not a crime but a fundamental right of citizens. Raising questions about the transparency of the electoral process and the impartiality of the Election Commission is a democratic right of every citizen.

The Delhi State Committee of CPI (ML) Red Star demands the immediate and unconditional release of all detained protesters, an independent investigation into the police repression, and the immediate resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. Public accountability must be ensured on the serious questions surrounding the electoral process.

We call upon all democratic, progressive, and justice-loving forces to stand united against the suppression of democratic voices at Jantar Mantar. Let us broaden the resistance against this fascist repression and advance the struggle to defend democracy, the Constitution, and civil rights.

Stop fascist repression against the working masses!

Release all detained protesters!

Gyanesh Kumar Must Resign!

Stop the Assault on Democracy and Civil Rights!

Issued by:

Vijay Kumar
On behalf of the Delhi Committee Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Red Star

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As concrete information on the ‘illegal’ actions of Election Commission under Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, including the reports that he was acting totally ignoring the dissent recorded by the other two Election Commissioners, all the Opposition parties have now come forward demanding his immediate resignation. Earlier, when well-meaning sections and all democratic forces in the country have been opposing the SIR including its ‘logical discrepancy’ that aimed at systematically disenfranchising mainly the Muslims and youth, with the exception of Rahul Gandhi, many Opposition parties were considering the issue as an insignificant one. However, with the information that the two Election Commissioners had put their objections on record at least 14 times between October 2025 and August 2026 against the unilateral move on the part of Gyanesh Kumar, now all the Opposition and the entire country are now rising up against him and the fascist regime using Kumar.

The role of the judiciary, which could have stopped the unconstitutional and illegal SIR, is also revealing. In the beginning, even the apex Court’s proceedings regarding SIR were like a Kangaroo court, and the Supreme Court even upheld the SIR and its ‘logical discrepancy’ that ultimately led to the elimination of more than 13 crore voters from the electoral roll. Of course, the Supreme Court has now consented to go into the constitutional validity of Section 16 of the CEC Act, 2023, that grants the Chief Election Commissioner life-long immunity from civil and criminal proceedings for official acts. In fact, it was the 2023 Law that replaced the Chief Justice of India from the selection panel with a Cabinet Minister chosen by the Prime Minister, thereby enabling the fascist regime to transform the Election Commission as its most pliable fascist tool to keep the election itself as a facade. When it was challenged in the Court, the latter refused to intervene, giving the fascist regime a free hand for manipulating the elections.

When all are now targeting Gyanesh Kumar as the villain, it should be underlined that he is only a stooge of the fascist regime whose ideological-political and organisational control is with RSS, which is in its maddening pace towards a Majoritarian fascist Hindu Rashtra. Kumar has been only a tool for facilitating this heinous task. All his illegal and unconstitutional actions were as per the diktats of the fascist regime. And, its outcome is the fraudulent electoral process and targeted deletion of crores of non- BJP voters and Muslims in collusion with the street power of Sangh Parvar, leading to the ascendancy of fascist “double engine governments” in 21 States across the country.

In this context, the demand for resignation and punishment of Gyanesh Kumar and abandoning the whole SIR should not be the end, but only the beginning of a prolonged struggle against the fascist regime which has been using him as a tool. We appeal to the working and oppressed people and all democratic and progressive forces to transform the struggle against the huge electoral fraud as a launching pad for developing country-wide movements and struggles to overthrow the fascist regime itself.

Standing Committee of the Polit Bureau
CPI (ML) Red Star

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Press Release

13th Party Congress of CPI (ML) Red Star Successfully Completed!

Rise up to fulfill the Immediate Task of Overthrowing RSS Fascism!

The 5-day Party Congress of CPI (ML) Red Star held in the historic city of Raichur from 16 to 20 September 2026 elected a 33-member Central Committee and a 13- member Polit Bureau. The Congress also elected a 3-member Central Control Commission. Around 250 Delegates from 14 States and Overseas Committee together with Observers and Fraternal delegates from various Parties participated in the Congress.

The 13th Congress of the Party is being held at a critical juncture when US- led imperialism is having its biggest offensive against world people through naked aggression and far-right corporatism. In continuation of the genocide of the Palestinians, the latest manifestation of this horrific crime is the ongoing US-Zionist aggression on Iran. Meanwhile, while there is a surge in fascism across the world, people’s resistance against it is also rising up.

India, the most populous country today, is under the stranglehold of RSS, world’s largest and longest-running fascist organization. While the country’s resources and people’s livelihood are sold out to Adani- Ambani like corporate billionares, the entire administration including police and even military, judiciary, education, culture, etc., are under the firm grip of fascism. Muslims are targeted as the biggest enemy, and are systematically disenfranchised and denied citizenship. And using Manusmriti as its ideological roots, the Dalits and Women are subjected to intensifying oppression, as the RSS is in its maddening pace towards a Brahmanical Hindu Rashtra.

In this context, as laid down in the Program and other basic documents adopted by the Congress and as discussed in the Seminars on Imperialism, Fascism and Caste Annihilation, held as part of the Congress, the Party has resolved to intensively take up the struggle against RSS Fascism and the dominance of imperialist-corporate capital over the country in its manifold ways.

In the specific context of India, where both the ideological and material basis of fascism is the most inhuman caste system, the 13th Party Congress of CPI (ML) Red Star has appealed to the working class and all oppressed peoples to join with all progressive-democratic forces to take up the anti-fascist movement appropriately linking the struggle for People’s livelihood with the uncompromising struggle struggle for the annihilation of Caste system. This is to be taken up self-critically taking lessons from the erstwhile mistakes on the part of Indian Communist Movement in its failure to understand the Caste question in the proper perspective.

The Party Congress unanimously adopted altogether 19 Resolutions concerning the International and Indian issues pertaining to the US-Zionist genocide on Palestinians, Aggression on Iran, Modi Govt’s tax on UPI payments at the diktats of Trump regime, against SIR and ongoing anti-Muslim moves, continued detention of Omar Khalid in jail without trial or bail, against Manuvadi-corporate Education policies, condemning the reluctance on the part of Modi regime to have a proper Caste Census, against Delimitation and ongoing anti-Federal moves towards a pan-Indian, unitary Hindurashtra, demanding abolition of the post of Governor, and so on.

The 5- day Party Congress, among other things, also put on record its cordial thanks and warmest greetings to all the Progressive-Democratic People of Raichur for their whole-hearted cooperation and for solidly standing with the Party for making the 13th Party Congress a great success!

P J James (General Secretary)

R Manasayya (Polit Bureau Member)

M Gangadhar (Karnataka State Secretary)

CPI (ML) Red Star)

Raichur, Karnataka

21.09.2026

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BRICS Summit Beats Around the Bush, Avoiding the Core Issues to be Addressed!

P J James

The 140-paragrah New Delhi Declaration that follows the two-day 18th BRICS Summit chaired by India, though depicts the “Global South” as the “driver for positive change”, it failed to address the core issues confronting humanity today in an objective manner. To put it differently, in tune with the competing and contradictory interests among its 11 members and 10 partner countries, now the Declaration that came out, while claims itself as a “consensus statement”, is cautious not to mention the names of countries who are behind the most threatening issue today, i.e., the aggression on Iran and global threats therefrom. Thus, references to “multipolarity”, “global governance”, “unity of Emerging markets and Developing Countries”, “climate finance”, “AI governance”, “digital health networks”, “peace and stability”, “nuclear disarmament and arms control”, “sustainable… supply chains of critical minerals”, “combating terrorism”, etc. , that are there in the Declaration, are functioning only as a cover for beating around the bush to avoid core questions.

For instance, regarding the unilateral US-Israel aggression on Iran, due to the so called “delicate diplomacy” arising mainly from Modi regime’s nexus with US and Israel, the BRICS Declaration fails to directly mention the US-Zionist axis, the perpetrators of this horrific crime on humanity, though it expresses “deep concern” over attacks on civilian infrastructure and nuclear facilities in West Asia. And, the biggest setback of the 18th BRICS Summit is its total silence on “De-dollarisation” and regarding the much discussed move towards a BRICS currency, which, if materialized, is not only a counterweight to Western imperialism but also a deathblow to the US role as the supreme arbiter of the postwar neocolonial global order. While China and Russia are working for an anti-dollar global monetary architecture, the Indian regime which is clinging on to the apron strings of the US, is against such a move.

Thus, as a manifestation of the inherent conflicting political-economic interests and geo-strategic alignments among its leading members, the BRICS is repeatedly failing to act as a strategic grouping capable of taking independent positions on the most crucial questions confronting the world today. To be precise, it still operates like an informal consultative forum or platform instead of an international organisation with a binding agreement or treaty.

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Communist Revolutionaries in India are observing 28 July as Martyrs Day, the day when Comrade Charu Majumdar, the first General Secretary of CPI (ML), was martyred under police custody in 1972. It was in accordance with the perspectives of developing peasant struggles put forward by Comrade Charu Majumdar that the historic Naxalbari Struggle took place in May 1967, leading to the formation of CPI (ML) in 1969.

Red Salute to Martyrs !
Resist and Defeat RSS Fascism !
Down with Imperialism !
Strive for People’s Democracy and Socialism !

CPI (ML) Red Star

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The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star unequivocally condemns the barbaric state attack on peaceful protesters during the Parliament March held as part of the Jantar Mantar struggle organised by CJP. This state-sponsored terror directly exposes the anti-student and anti-people nature of the fascist RSS-BJP regime.

On January 20, 2026, following the forcible removal of Sonam Wangchuk to the hospital, the CJP and allied student organizations along with thousands of students and youth marched from Jantar Mantar toward Parliament. Outraged by 152 “paper leaks” impacting over 7.5 crore students, this massive mobilization marks a further development of the student movement against BJP Regime under whom the country’s education system is increasingly becoming a profit-making field for the corporate-educational mafia. Facing heavy police barricades, tear gas, and brutal lathi charges near the Parliament Street Police Station, the youth demonstrated immense bravery. Reports confirm severe injuries and targeted attacks on student activists, including AIRSO comrades.

Despite state terror, the collective resolve of the youth remains unbroken. CPI(ML) Red Star, stands in solidarity with the movement that strongly demands the resignation of the Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, exemplary punishment for all officials and police personnel responsible for the unprovoked violence, and the immediate, unconditional release of activist Sonam Wangchuk along with all detained students and youth. The Party also demands a total overhauling of the NEP and all the interconnected policies whose ultimate aim is saffronisation and corporatisation/commercialization of the Indian education system under the fascist regime.

We salute the solidarity extended across India for the struggle, and call upon all progressive-democratic forces to come forward to strengthen this movement of the youth and students ahead with a proper perspective and sustainable orientation, resisting and overcoming all heinous manoeuvres by the regime.

Central Committee
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star

New Delhi
21 July 2026

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hame on the UN System and the Comity of Nations that Remain as Spectators!

Far-right, neo-fascist, Islamophobic Trump’s relaunching of the illegal war of aggression against Iran, now reaching its most terrorist phase, targeting civilians and strategic infrastructures including that of Iran’s oil production, blockade of Iranian ports and Strait of Hormuz, is now inflicting horrific levels of destruction on Iran. As part of Iran’s adorable resistance against the world’s biggest military machine, it is continuing with its retaliatory strikes on US military bases, inflicting immense damage over them across the Middle East. In spite of Trump’s claim on control over the Strait of Hormuz, it’s obvious that Iran will never cede its control over it. And Trump has cancelled all previous waivers that became part of the Pakistan-mediated truce that formally came into being on 17 June.

Even in this critical situation, the already defunct UN System remains as a mere edifice. Gulf monarchies are exposed as lackeys of US imperialism (and apologists of Zionism). And except for the usual anti-war statements, the ruling regimes of many countries are exposed as incapable to do anything. Trump’s unilateral aggression on Iran is continuing without any let up, even as the inter-imperialist contradictions between the US on the one hand, China and Russia on the other, are sharpening. While Russia’s direct involvement through military support to Iran is reported, China, under the cover of its usual anti-US rhetoric, is solely guided by its self-interest, and is taking advantage of the situation to strengthen China’s economic position and trade access in the region.

In this extremely reactionary global situation, where the International Communist Movement and progressive forces are weak and confronting many setbacks, this US imperialist offensive can be challenged only through the emergence of a powerful anti-imperialist and anti-fascist movement with a political program backed by the fighting unity of the working class and oppressed peoples of the world. Even to make use of the inter-imperialist contradictions in a critical situation such as this, the presence of an anti-war and imperialist movement at a global level is indispensable. To be precise, there is no short-cut other than a political leadership which is capable to effectively coordinate and lead the struggles of working and oppressed peoples of the world against imperialism and their lackeys, is the solution.

Down with US imperialism and Its Lackeys!
Down with Imperialism of all Hues!
Solidarity with the People of Iran!
Workers and Oppressed Peoples of the World Unite!

International Department
CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi
15 July 2026

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Comrade Subrata Basu, a senior leader of COI (ML), has passed away after a prolonged battle with cancer.

Comrade Basu joined the communist revolutionary movement in West Bengal in the early 1970s and remained steadfast in his commitment to the cause of revolution throughout his life. During the period from January 2005 to January 2009, we worked together in a united organisation, sharing common struggles and aspirations for the revolutionary movement.

With his passing, the communist movement has lost a dedicated revolutionary fighter whose contributions and commitment will be remembered by comrades and activists alike.

CPI (ML) Red Star extends its heartfelt revolutionary tributes to Comrade Subrata Basu and conveys its deepest condolences to his family, comrades, and associates.

Red Salute to Comrade Subrata Basu!

Party Centre
CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi
21 June 2026

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Modi Government’s Subservience to US Imperialism has further exposed

The Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Red Star strongly condemns the brutal attack by the United States on three Indian vessel that have claimed the lives of three Indian seafarers. We extend our heartfelt condolences to the families of the martyrs and express our solidarity with all those affected by this outrageous act.

This attack is yet another manifestation of the aggressive and interventionist character of U.S. imperialism, which has repeatedly violated the sovereignty and rights of nations across the world in pursuit of its hegemonic interests. The killing of Indian personnel cannot be justified under any circumstances and demands unequivocal condemnation.

At the same time, we strongly denounce the shameful servile conduct of the Modi government in the face of this grave incident. While the government routinely invokes nationalism for domestic political gain, its namesake protest and ritualistic response toward acts committed by powerful imperialist allies reveal the hollowness of its claims. The BJP-led regime’s growing strategic alignment with the United States has increasingly subordinated the interests of the country and its people under the geopolitical designs of Washington.

Instead of firmly defending the lives of Indian citizens and military personnel, the Modi government appears more concerned with preserving its strategic partnership with the United States. Such a posture amounts to a betrayal of national sovereignty and the interests of the Indian people.

CPI (ML) Red Star demands an immediate and unequivocal condemnation of the attack by the Government of India and a transparent international investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident. Full accountability for those responsible for the deaths of the Indian Navy personnel and adequate compensation and support for the families of the deceased.

This tragic incident underscores the dangers inherent in the Fascist Modi regime’s growing integration with imperialist military and strategic frameworks. The Indian people must reject both imperialist aggression and the subordinate policies that place foreign interests above national sovereignty.

CPI (ML) Red Star calls upon democratic, progressive, and anti-imperialist forces across the country to raise their voice against this attack and against the continued subordination of India’s foreign policy to U.S. strategic objectives.

Down with US Imperialist Aggression!
Defend India’s Sovereignty and Independent Foreign Policy!
Long Live International Solidarity of the Working People!

International Department
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Red Star

New Delhi
12. 06. 2026

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Being started as a spontaneous satirical internet protest against CJI’s insulting remarks comparing the unemployed youth of India as “cockroaches” and “parasites”, the Cockroach Janata Party has stepped off the viral world into the real world of action holding its street protest in Jantar Mantar on 6 June 2026. The CJP’s demand for the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, exposition of Exam Scams, Paper Leaks and shortcomings of related digital infrastructure, protest against unemployment, corruption and total erosion of administrative accountability, and so on under the crony-capitalist fascist regime, which is rotten to the core, need support and solidarity from all well- meaning people.

Of course, this is not the time to go for an evaluation of the ideological underpinnings of the CJP. Rather than a digital outlet relaying youth’s frustration, the relevance of CJP in the days ahead depends on the extent to which it can overcome or fill the gap between digital popularity and real-world mobilisation of youth, in tune with its declared position.

In the meanwhile, firmly upholding the inalienable right of the students and youth to organize, protest, and make their voices heard, it is the task of all progressive-democratic forces, irrespective of their ideological-political persuasion, to declare solidarity and support the CJP from the perspective of building up the broadest anti-fascist unity of the people.

Party Centre
CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi
08.06.2026

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