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The height of dubiousness and fraud is in selecting the name – ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan’. First, it is not a ‘Relief package’ as it was sought to be presented. There is nothing that even remotely provides any relief to the workers, peasants and other toiling people who are the worst Read more

Self reliance was the aspiration of our Independence struggle. The public sector was established and expanded to meet this aspiration of our people. The Modi led BJP government has changed the meaning of ‘self reliance’. Its ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan’ is meant to make our country totally dependent on foreign companies Read more

Narendra Modi led BJP Government promulgated three ordinances on 5th June 2020 – Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Ordinance 2020, Farmers’ (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Ordinance 2020 and Essential Commodities (Amendment) Ordinance 2020. These are part of the so called “Atmanirbhar Read more

A small virus, a new one, has created a pandemic and panic in the entire world. It has thrown a challenge to the abilities of societies, with all the scientific and technological advances of the 21st century, to cope up with Covid caused by it. The six months experience during Read more

Communalism is nothing but a political strategy using religious symbols and societal traditions as political mobilisation tools to serve a section of oligarchic monopoly capital. The RSS-BJP cannot survive without such ugly political mobilisation tools. Their existence therefore, is necessitated by extension of communal hate politics, which is an antithesis Read more

Though the Unemployment and Income Disparity have always been the two most horrible parameters exposing the structural problem of the system from the very beginning of the Neoliberal Regime, now, at this current juncture, they have become severely acute – blatantly depicting the crisis of the System itself. The global Read more

 India is the country with the largest number of people facing chronic hunger. According to Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), 22.4 crore people in India suffered from chronic hunger in 2019-21. No other country in the world has such a large number of people facing hunger. As per FAO estimates, Read more

MNREGA has proved its worth in providing employment in rural India even during the years of economic slowdown as well as pandemic lock down. It has helped the poorest and most oppressed sections of the rural masses to survive, while at the same time preventing general wages of the agricultural Read more

 ‘Legally guaranteed minimum support price at C2+50%’ as recommended by the M S Swaminathan chaired National Commission for Farmers has become a household demand of the peasantry across the country today-thanks to the prolonged and massive united struggles of the peasantry during the last two and a half decades especially Read more

One of the chief defining characters of the present political dispensation’s economic governance, inter alia, is its intransient push for rolling-out the labour reforms in India. The BJP government, immediately after assuming power at the Centre, embarked upon labour law codifications exercise, a euphemism for corporate unbridled process of profit Read more