One comrade from Chennai reported today that some bad pictures are appearing in the home page of my blog-site. I checked myself in my laptop, but there was nothing. Another comrade also reported from Chennai the same thing. After some time both the comrades contacted and intimated that it is normal now. Except from Chennai, nobody reported any thing unusual.
It seems that either some technical fault might have come or some mischief makers are on the job. My request to them is not to hack the website and confuse the visitors.

The First Congress of the Indian National Congress was held at Bombay on 3rd August 1885. Although it was only a moderate organisation seeking some concessions from the British Government at that time, gradually it grew in to a mighty movement of the people for achieving Independence from the British rulers. And we got Independence on 15th August 1947.
After Independence, the Congress changed. Its priorities have changed. Instead of caring for the ‘daridra narayanas’, it is now caring for the MNCs and big business. It is submerged in huge corruption cases.
Will the Indian National Congress be able to have an introspection of what has happened to it? How is it that the high traditions and sacrifices upheld by the leaders of the Independence struggle have been discarded and has fallen to the corruptions and moral depredations?

Each day more and more problems are coming in to the way of the Prime Minister. After former Minister A.Raja has stated that the PM and the former Finance Minister Chidambaram were in the loop on all decisions regarding allotment of 2G, it has been revealed now that PMO was responsible for appointment of Kalmadi as Chief of Common Wealth Games Organisation instead of a Government Officer as is the system. It is also reported that Sunil Dutt, then Sorts Minister, has opposed the proposal to appoint Kalmadi, but it was over-ruled by the PMO.
It seems that the Prime Minister has been involving in all these decisions making or atleast is fully aware of the same. Is it this ugly situation that the Government is strongly opposing the inclusion of Prime Minister in the Lok Pal Bill?

Nobody has any doubt that the UPA II Government under the leadership of the three promoters/pensioners ( Dr.Manmohan Singh, Ahluwalia and Chidambaram), of Bretton Wood Institutions( World Bank, IMF and WTO)will continue aggressively with the anti-people anti-worker reforms. This has now been clearly spelt out by the present Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma, in a special meeting called by the FM with the captains of Industries. The industrialists included Ratan Tata, Anil Ambani, Sunil Mittal, Anand Mahindra, Shashi Ruia, N.R.Narayana Murthy, Venu Srinivasa, G.V.K.Reddy and others.
The Finance Minister assured that the Banking Laws Amendment Bill, Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Bill,Insurance Lawa Amendment Bill, Life Insurance Corporation Bill etc. will be passed in this Monsoon session itself. The progressive sections of the people and the working class organisations have been opposing these bills which are intended to take away the hard-won rights of the workers as also to utilse the pension corpus for the benefit of market which may shatter the pension of the retired workers. The FM never called or discussed with the representative of the workers on these bills which are completely against their interests. It has become very clear that whose interests are most important to the government. It is not the interest of the workers but the interests of the MNCs and big business.
A sustained and united struggle is required to correct the priorities of the government. Start preparations for the same now itself.

W.Bengal had always some difficulty with its ‘West’. It did not give any benefit to anybody. Having the ‘West’ tag, it used to be always in the last being one of the last alphabet. In any conference, the delegates from W.Bengal gets the last chance to speak. It is the same with the Central Government meetings also. By the time a lot of time have been taken by others and the delegates lose interest. In another way, W.Bengal is not in the west of the country. It is on the east. Due to the partition and the Bangladesh taking its name, Indian Bengal became W.bengal.
Now Mamata Government is trying to change the name to Bongo or Bongodesh. Certain historians have pointed out that the original name of Bengal was Bongo and it became as Bengal at a later period. It is called Vangadesh in the puranans.
So, West Bengal will have a new name based on the old name as Bongo or Bongodesh? Do the Bengalis cherish the name?

The CBI has calculated the loss to the government from 2G spectrum allotment as Rs. 30,984.55 crore, while according to CAG report it is Rs. 1.76 lakh crore. According to R.K.Chandolia, IAS and Personal Secretary to former Minister A.Raja, the break up of the loss for issuing licence to the companies is as follows:
Company No of licences Loss to Govenment
Tata 19 GSM 3 CDMA Rs. 4930.66 crore
Unitech 22 Rs. 4441-05
Datacom 21 Rs. 4239.19
Loop 21 Rs. 4239.19
Reliance 14 Rs. 3379.58
Shyam 21 CDMA 1 GSM Rs. 2650.03
Swan 13 GSM Rs. 2624.26
Idea 9 GSM Rs. 1816.8
S-Tel 6 GSM Rs. 1211.2
Spice 4 GSM Rs. 807.46
Allianz 2 GSM Rs. 403.73
HFCL 1 GSM Rs. 241.4
Total Rs.30984.55 Crore

According to Chandolia, all the companies who got the licences have got windfall benefit. He might have pointed out this to escape from conviction, but it seems that there is something fishy and some private companies are being allowed to escape. The Prime Ministe and former Finance Minister P.Chidambaram have got a lot to explain before the people of India.

I am surprised and shocked by reading in the newspapers that Delhi High Court has given a judgement stating that equal pay for equal work can not be extended to the workers appointed on casual basis. The High Court was disposing of an appeal filed by the Air India against order of the Central Government Industrial Tribunal.
This is completely against the principle accepted for decades. The casual worker is neither allowed increments nor promotion etc. He is given only the minimum of the scales of pay. This is an accepted principle by the Government, the Labour Authorities and even the judiciary earlier.
Now the bolt from the blue has come denying the casual worker his right for equal wages. This has got to be opposed and justice got to the casual worker.The Government should immediately make necessary legislation to ensure the right for equal wage for the casual labourers.

The Parliament session has started today which is going to be a stormy one with the issues of intolerable price hike, 2G and other corruption cases, differences in the Lok Pal Bill, PFRDA Bill etc. The Prime Minister and the former finance Minister P.Chidambaram have to answer a lot in the 2G scam after the statement given by former Minister A.Raja that they were in loop for all decisions connected with 2G auction. The no-action by the Government on Black Money is another issue.
Central TUs and various Federations of workers are also in the struggle field during the Parliament session.
It is really going to be a stormy session.

China was under the rule of Japan for a very long period.The land was controlled by war lords and local chieftains who exploited the chinese people. The living conditions of the common people were very pitiable. The earlier emperors of China were very powerful but that did not improve the conditions of the people.
There were dissatisfaction every where. It was the Communist Party of China which started organising the people against the tyranny of the Japan and later the Chiang Kai Shek’s army.It was the formation of the Chinese Communist Party and the formation of the Red Army that changed the entire situation. The Red Army was formed on 1st August 1927. The army was mainly formed by the peasants and workers. Mao-Tse-Dung and his comrades formed the Red Army a really revolutionary army. The armed struggle and the historic Long March ended in the victory of communist revolution.
Through decades, China has developed and is now second only to USA both in military as well as economy. And China is growing at a higher rate than USA. At this stage we remember the Red Army and Communist Party and the people of China who made it possible.Congratulations to Chinese people.

Dear Comrades, Friends,
This blog has completed one year with the support of all of you.I have tried to bring news as also information which are important and our friends would like to read. I have got full support from all of you and a large number have visited the blog during this period as also sent their comments. I would try to improve the publication in the coming days.
Thanking you all
VAN Namboodiri