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Nagpur (India): A meeting of Samajawadi Janaparishad National executive Committee was held on February 29- March 2, 2008 at India Peace Centre Nagpur. The meeting took various decisions including to contest elections in the next Lok Sabha and assembly elections of various states. Around Ten Lok Sabha Seats will be contested. The election plan and strategy will be decided in the national council meeting on 20, 21, 22 and 23 May 2008 at Baltra Road, Ballia, U.P. on the detailed reports of the state units. The party is planning to conduct a Bharath Yatra for spreading the message of a building up of a ‘Naya Bharat’. The meeting also took decisions on various organizational matters and adopted resolutions including the condolence in the death of Baba Amte, Justice H.R. Khanna, Dr. Rajendra Vora, Sagar Singh, Bibin Bihari Singh and Niranjan Yadav. The meeting was presided over by President Sunil. Senior Socialist leader Pannalal Surana, General Secretary Lingaraj Vice Presidents Sanjeev San...

ON POLICE REPRESSION OF PEOPLE’S STRUGGLES IN THE NAME OF CAMPAIGN AGAINST MAOISTS Based on draconian MAHARASHTRA ORGANISED CRIMES PREVENTION Act of Mahartashtra, Several States have passed repressive acts to repress the legitimate people’s movements. Restrictions are put on the activities of the organizations engaged on people’s struggles all over India in the name of campaign against Maoists, Police is harassing activists who have deep faith in values like peaceful change, Non-violence and belonging to Gandhi, Ambedkar, Socialist and other traditions. It is learnt that names of people like Dr. Baba Adhav, Medha Patkar, Suresh Khairnar, Nagesh Chaudhary are included in the list of Maoists- Nexalites by police authorities. Dr. Vinayek Sen, PresidentChathisgarh State, PUCL is in jail for past more than one & half year for his alleged pro-maoist activities and Supreme Court has also rejected his bail application. Dr. Sen is known throughout the Country as an activist serving the adi...

POLITICAL RESOLUTION The meeting of the National Executive of Samajawadi Janaparishad February 29- March 2- 2008 , Nagpur. The an nouncement of loan waiver for farmers by Government of India in the Budget 2008-09 will neither end the crisis of Indian farmers nor will living a major relief to them. The reasons are the following –: The major portion of the loans to the aggrieved farmers are from private money lenders & businessmen, where coercions are compelling the farmers to suicide. In the last 15 years due to the policies of globalization, there has been a steep decline in bank loans to farmers who are now compelled to go in the clutches of private lenders. The loan of farmer with holdings of less than 5 acres have been waived that too pending loans, while the crisis has fallen on all farmers of under developed and unirrigated regions where the condition of even these farmers with larger landholdings are mush worse. In the policy the 25% of loan of farmers with holdings larger t...