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The CPI(M) central committee has just released its draft political resolution (DPR) for discussion and adoption at the 23rd congress of the party scheduled in Kerala in April this year. The last party congress was held in 2018 and this DPR assesses the course of developments in the last four years both nationally and globally to enable the party delegates to arrive at the final political resolution which will guide the party leadership in framing strategy and tactics for the next few years till the 24th party congress.

Will too many cooks spoil the Opposition broth? Many players in the national opposition camp are trying to come together ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls against the BJP. You have Congress President Sonia Gandhi attempting to form a united opposition coalition. You have West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee trying to develop a non- Congress non-BJP coalition with the help of Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar. Then you have the Telangana chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao who wants to form a federal front without Congress. Tamil Nadu chief minister M.K. Stalin is the new entrant to this effort.

The Communist Manifesto, first published on February 21 in 1848, doesn’t suggest that we should imagine the future. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels tell us that the future is harbored within things themselves, and that is why it is rational to desire it. So it makes no sense to establish a dualism between the present and the future; if we reasoned according to this dichotomy, then we would be condemned either to desire the impossible or else to suffer the curse of Adam and accept suffering and poverty as divine punishments. The Manifesto instead tells us to take up the tasks we are capable of resolving — and by “us,” Marx and Engels mean not individuals or an aggregate of individuals but a class determined by economic processes.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It was a classic example of commendable conflict resolution in the face of extreme provocation. The Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government’s efficient handling of the explosive situation averted a confrontation with Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan.

To expect the Modi Government to hand over powers to recall a governor to a state government is naïve. Governors are appointed and function at the pleasure of the Centre. They can be recalled only by the Centre, in which case “recall” is a synonym for “dismissed.” The naïve state government here is the Kerala government. The governor sought to be recalled is Arif Mohammed Khan.

LUCKNOW: Priyanka Gandhi with her strategy, road shows and public meetings in fourth phase constituencies in assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh on February 23, can give surprise results for the Congress party. Priyanka Gandhi worked very hard to save Nehru -Gandhi bastion in Rae Bareli and reminded local voters about old connection with the family and work done for development. Priyanka is in charge of the elections in Uttar Pradesh as the AICC general secretary.

New Delhi: Former coach Anand Amritraj, feels that India start firm favourites against Denmark in the Davis Cup World Group I playoff tie here on March 4 and 5 here because the visitors will find it tough to negotiate the grass court on which the matches will be played.

New Delhi: Promising pugilist Sumit stunned the World Championships silver medallist Dzhambulat Bizhamov, while three other Indians fell by the way side on the opening day of the 73rd Strandja Memorial Boxing Tournament, in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Nearly four years before the martyrdom of Abul Barkat, Abdul Jabbar, Rafiquddin Ahmad, Abdus Salam and Shafiur Rahman on 21 February 1952, polymath Syed Mujtaba Ali, linguist and Bengali litterateur predicted dismemberment of Pakistan. At a meeting of Sylhet Sahitya Sangsad (Sylhet Literary Council on 30 November 1947. 105 days after the birth of Pakistan, Dr Ali who knew occidental and oriental languages. “The repercussions of imposing Urdu as the language dropping Bangla will not do good in future. One day our people will revolt against against Pakistan if Urdu is made the national language edging out Bangla”, he stated.

In Bengaluru’s 80 workers have entered their third month of protest against Indian Telephone Industries (ITI) Limited, one of the India’s largest public sector undertakings (PSU). The workers, many of whom, are women and belong to the Dalit community, have been on protest since December 1 of last year, after being prevented from entering the premises of the company’s K.R. Puram-based plant on that day. Hours after being turned away from work, they were informed by a Human Resource representative that their employment had been terminated by the company, on account of a change in the contracting agency attached to the company.