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Nayamuddin Sheikh had something “new” to offer to the CBI Court to nail BJP president Amit Shah to the fake encounter that killed bro Sohrabuddin Sheikh. Youngest of the Sheikh Brothers, Nayamuddin failed to deliver, turning hostile in court. Another brother Shahnawazuddin Sheikh too stood up with something “new” but was last minute thwarted. Shah also has former chief investigating officers of the CBI popping up in court to nail him, but with empty hands!

In all honesty, the Government of India should erect a Statue of John Allen Chau, taller than the Statue of Unity, a 1,000 meters out at sea from the North Sentinel Island shore to warn people to stay off the island where Chau took Jesus to and found death. Nobody plays games with the North Sentinel Border Control and gets away with it. Ask POTUS Donald Trump, he has stationed a fraction of the US Army at the ‘Southern Border’ to keep off miserable caravan cretins.

Political parties make several promises during the elections, but healthcare has always been on the back seat. This is, even though, large amount of budget of the household goes towards healthcare. Whereas poverty is a cause of poor health, healthcare expenditure itself leads to poverty. The National Health Policy document 2017 admits that nearly 6.3 crore people are pushed below poverty line every year because of out-of-pocket expenditure on health. Successive governments have failed to address this issue. Public spending on health remains hovering around 1% of the GDP. The central government spending on health is a meagre 0.26% of the GDP. This is too low in contrast to the spending by others nations. Brazil spends around 8.3 per cent, Russian Federation 7.1 per cent and South Africa around 8.8 per cent. Even the figures of SAARC countries are much better; Afghanistan spends 8.2 per cent, Maldives 13.7 per cent and Nepal 5.8 per cent.

As the agrarian crisis intensifies, unemployment keeps growing and education, with privatization, goes out of the limits of common masses, there are communities that were once dominant in agriculture and in politics due to their numerical strength, have been engaged in agitation demanding “Reservation”.

The AITUC was formed in 1920 in erstwhile Bombay during the British Raj. Prior to that the First World War had ended (1914-18) and the Indian working class had gathered some experience of united action (six days hartal for six years imprisonment of Tilak in 1908). There was also sprouting of local unions from Bombay to Calcutta to Madras presidencies (Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, Calcutta (1907), Kamgar Hitvardhak Sabha, Bombay (1910)). And the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia had raised the hopes of toilers world-wide.

BJP ideologue S Gurumurthi, a stout defender of demonetisation, has described this widely criticized move by economists as necessary to resurrect the economy from the brink of collapse but admitted that the MSME sector that accounted for 85 per cent of jobs in manufacturing and 70 per cent of exports were badly hit by demonetisation and rollout of GST.

Only a few days left for the Madhya Pradesh assembly elections. The main battle in Madhya Pradesh is between BJP and Congress, however, BSP, SP and Aam Aadmi Party also hopeful that this time they will also be successful to register their presence in the state assembly. Alike Rajasthan, nobody could confidently claim that who is going to form next government in Madhya Pradesh. In Madhya Pradesh, many factors are working simultaneously due to which it is difficult to guess what will be the mind-set of the public during voting? There has been little doubt about BJP's victory in the last three assembly elections. There was speculation just about the number of seats. But now in 2018, conditions are altogether different from the past. Congress is convinced that this time the people will vote them to power, and on the other hand the BJP is confident about its strong organizational structure.

BHOPAL: Congress is facing a three-pronged attack: besides BJP, both Bahujan Samaj Party and Samajwadi Party have also mounted severe criticism of the Congress. Both the parties have accused Congress of nearly betraying the anti-BJP voters determined to end the 15 year saffron rule of the state.

CHANDIGARH: To awaken and mobilise the people against the real danger to indian democracy; secular fabric, composite culture, constitution and constitutional institutions like judiciary, election commission, even the RBI, the Punjab units of CPI and CPI(M) have organised Joint Jatha March in almost all the districts an main rural and urban centres of the state from of November 15 to of November 21 as part of state wide campaign to culminate in State Political Rally on January 28 2019.

Mizoram, with one of the highest literacy rates in the country, goes to polls on November 28. The state, which has a legislature comprising of 40 seats, is the last surviving bastion of the Congress party in the north-eastern region. The party is in power for the last 10 years with Lal Thanhawla as the Chief Minister. He is one of the tallest leaders in the state who became Chief Minister for the fifth time in 2013. The party is aware that this time the battle is hard as it is fighting 10 years’ anti-incumbency. In the last elections, Congress won a thumping majority in the assembly getting 34 seats with 44.6 per cent votes.