Com. Sisir Bhattacharjee, veteran P and T union leader and first Patron of BSNLEU, has been admitted to the Presidency General Hospital, Kolkata on 18th April in a serious condition. Our comrades Om Prakash Singh, Adhir Kumar Sen, Mihir Dasgupta, Saibal Sen Gupta and other leaders are at the hospital and making all efforts for the best treatment and early recovery.

We hope for an early recovery.

Calcutta High Court on 17th April extended the stay on the panchayat poll process in West Bengal and said the State Election Commission’s withdrawal of a notification giving an additional day for filing of nominations was in question before it.
Justice Subrata Talukdar extended the stay on the panchayat poll process till tomorrow morning when the matter would be heard again.
He said that the Supreme Court had asked the SEC to allay apprehensions of the petitioner or any intending candidate, and in line of that the Commission had extended the nomination process by a day.
It, however, withdrew the notification the very next day, which is in question before the court, the judge said, while hearing the SEC and the ruling Trinamool Congress’s challenge of his order to stay the elections. (Courtesy: Ganashakti)

In the name of reforms and new experiments, the Modi Government is plunging the people in to crisis after crisis making it difficult for them to live peacefully. The Demonetisation  and the GST were implemented by the government with assurance of catching the black marketers, easing the money transactions etc. etc. But what has happened is known to every body. The people suffered months together without money. Day to day life was adversely affected. People thought that the problem of shortage of rupee notes was over.

But NO! the crisis has become more acute and intensive. There is no money in the ATMs in most of the places. The government on its part is accusing the people of withdrawing more money.

It is clear and proved that the Modi government is not sensitive to the need of the people. It moves only for the interests of the corporates. The  it moves fast, very fast!

The rape and murder of an 8 year girl, Asifa, in a temple in Kathua, Jammu and a similar incident of rape in Unnao in U.P. is most condemnable and a crime beyond description. The stand of the governments, both in J ans K and UP to save the culprits is again condemnable.

The central and state governments should take immediate action to arrest all the culprits and also those who are trying to save the culprits. Prime Minister’s assurance that justice will be done should be implemented in its full sense and should not be made a mockery,since the culprits are BJP and high level and highly connected people.

Com. Basudev Acharya, former MP being taken to hospital after Trinamul attack.

Purulia , Apr 6 : CPI(M) Central Committee member and former MP Basudeb Acharya was today attacked by some miscreants and injured along with several other party activists when they were going to the BDO office at Cossipur block in this south Bengaldistrict for filing nomination papers for panchayet elections.

The CPI(M) veteran leader was attacked a day after ex-MP and CPI(M) central committee member Ramchandra Dome received head injury in a bloody attack while proceeding to the BDO office for filing nomination papers at Nalhati in Birbhum district.

We condemn this dastardly attack on the senior leader and demand the government to arrest the culprits. These attacks are being made to stop CPI(M) from filing nominations to the panchayat poll.

The exposure that huge data bank have been leaked through / by Cambridge Analytica and that the same have been misused by the political parties at the time of elections is a shock to the people. This is a complete violation of the privacy rules.

Government should take immediate action to find out the culprits and punish them harshly.