Basis Paper for meeting on 28th Feb09. Gujarat was perhaps the chosen state by BJP and Sangh-parivar to experiment with the communal agenda and making it the launching pad for spreading “Hindutva” across the country by displacing the “secular forces” led by Congress. This choice of Gujarat became more a compulsion [...]
RESOLUTIONS PASSED IN THE GUJARAT JAN ABHIYAN MEETING HELD AT SARDAR BAUG ON 17TH MARCH, 2009 House appealed to all the left and Democratic forces to unite and establish an alternative political force in the State of Gujarat. House urged the people of Gujarat to reject the communal politics of the ruling party and [...]
The Central Committee of the New Socialist Movement (NSM) in its meeting held today on 22nd March 2009 decided to support the candidature of Ms Mallika Sarabhai who has declared her intention to contest the forthcoming Loksabha election from Gandhinagar constituency as an independent candidate. The New Socialist Movement and its affiliated organizations Jan Sangharsh [...]
Press Release The Trials and Tribulations of the Past Seven Years Seven Years back, on 27th February,around 8.30am in the morning, Mohamad Hussein Kalota , the then President of the Godhra Municipality was preparing to go to Gandhinagar to discuss with the Government about some problems of his Municipality. He received a telephone call from Godhra [...]
STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF INDIAN WORKING CLASS IN THE ERA OF GLOBALISATION (Draft prepared by MUKUL SINHA, PRESIDENT, GFTU) 24.1.2009 The Betrayed Vanguard: For quite sometime now, the Indian working class appears to have been inflicted with some variety of paralytic disability. Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the [...]
12th February 2009 Jan Sangharsh Manch strongly condemns the recent attacks on youngsters in a pub in Mangalore by the self styled guardians of Indian Culture. JSM stands for a vibrant culture which would encourage individual freedom, freedom of expression, celebration of India‘s diverse cultural traditions and co-existence with mutual respect. JSM strongly believes that the right wing fanatics, who in [...]
SIT moves to arrest Minister of State for Women and Child Welfare Dr Maya Kodnani and VHP leader Jaydeep Patel in Naroda Gam Case? Minister of State for Women and Child Welfare Dr Maya Kodnani must step down after being declared absconder by the Supreme Court appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT). SIT also declared Dr.Jaydeep [...]
STATUTORY PREVARICATION COMMISSION OR OMMISSION? (Mukul Sinha) Prologue: Six months back, when I was asked by Lassnet to send the summary of what I would be presenting in January, 2008, I had said that the Commission of Inquiries Act, as implemented in the present days, provided a convenient machinery for prevarication. I had even [...]
The Double Helix of Violence (Mukul Sinha) 8.12.2008 THE FIRST HELIX The arrest of Pragya Singh Thakur by the Mumbai ATS Chief Hemant Karkare for the 29thSeptember,2008 Malegaon bomb blast had cracked the very foundation of the propaganda regarding “islamic terrorism” that the Hindu rightist forces were building [...]
