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“Netaji, do you know the meaning of converting UP into Gujarat? It means 24- hour electricity, no power cut for 356 days in every village and street. You can’t do it. You don’t have the guts to turn UP into Gujarat. It takes a 56-inch chest,” Narendra Modi said amidst rapturous applause and sloganeering by his supporters at Maanbela area in Gorakhpur on January 24, 2014. He had said this accepting the challenge thrown by Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav in an earlier election rally in Varanasi. Narendra Modi won the election and became Prime Minister of the country. Now after eight years of his rule, India has fallen into unprecedented energy crisis, and we are facing hours of electricity blackout across the country despite his claims of 56-inch chest and good governance which are obviously false.

For the Delhi-based Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), winning a seat in the 2022 Guwahati Municipal elections was not exactly a major victory, but it certainly helped in consolidating its position as the undisputed front runner among regional parties in India, currently ahead of the Trinamool Congress (TMC).

LUCKNOW: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and BJP are working for Mission 2024 to achieve the target of getting more than 70 seats in Lok Sabha from Uttar Pradesh. Soon after taking over as chief minister for second time Yogi Adityanath announced programmes for his ministers with targets keeping in mind 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

There are two Indias. One outlined by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, and the other by over 100 ex-bureaucrats and ex-diplomats who wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister. And if S. Jaishankar’s is a fine exposition of everything that is fine about India, and how India should position itself in the comity of nations, the “Over 100” have nothing good to talk about India in these times of Narendra Modi.

It may take time to get the Bombay High Court to clear Jesuit Father Stanislaus Lourduswamy’s name in the so-called Elgar Parishad case.

CPI general secretary D Raja said that the unity of left, democratic and secular parties is the need of the hour to save the country from the clutches of communal fascists. He underlined the necessity of launching struggles in the same spirit as of communist veterans, who sacrificed their lives during the freedom struggle against the British imperialists. He was addressing as the chief guest the meeting of party leaders and cadres assembled at Dasari Bhavan, Vijayawada on April 26 to set up the Reception Committee for the forthcoming 24th Congress of CPI in Vijayawada to be held during October 14 to 18, 2022. The meeting was presided over by party’s AP state council secretary K Ramakrishna.

We have entered a phase when the history of class divided society has been taking a new turn. One of the basic features that are called the driving forces through which capitalism is characterised is labour, and through labour, comes surplus that drives ahead the productive forces in capitalism. Labour is one of the priorities of economic growth in the modern society. It is the injustice at the roots of capitalist society that gives it momentum. Surprisingly, the capitalist today is not interested in investing on labour and this indifference towards economic growth deepens the crisis capitalist society has been facing itself.

May Day reminds us the saga of great sacrifices of the workers throughout the world in bringing to focus the extreme exploitation of the working class that they were treated as animals, no fixed working hours, no justified return of their hard labour, no occupational safety at work places and nothing for social security.

Majoritarian propensities have completely riveted the Indian politics and its social order. This majoritarian principle has not only vitiated the political structure, instead it has also affected the judiciary; the bureaucracy is already dancing to its tunes. Stimulating majoritarian is the part of the well designed strategy to convert India into a Hindu Rashtra.

The chief justice of India, N V Ramana, has stated in court that he would consider resuming the hearing of the petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 and the creation of two union territories by dismantling the state of Jammu & Kashmir in July, after the summer vacations.