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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: #2b00fe;">Rekha Babbal </span></span></p><p><b>A documentary by Rekha Babbal based on Prof. Vinodanand Prasad Singh (Socialist).</b></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131151656916524712.post-47817872704491408662019-06-10T11:54:00.001+05:302019-06-10T20:05:41.527+05:30Lingaraj Azad, Aflatoon Elected as National President and General Secretary of Samajwadi Jan Parishad<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ranchi (Jharkhand, India), June 9, 2019: Lingaraj Azad (Odisha) and Aflatoon (Uttar Pradesh) were on Sunday, 9th June unanimously elected as the National President and National General Secretary respectively of the Samajawadi Janaparishad (S.J.), the Socialist political party in India. The party also elected other members of its National Executive on the concluding day of its 12th biennial national conference, which held in Ranchi (Jharkhand) from June 7 to 9, 2019.<br />
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The National Executive elected, Joshy Jacob (Kerala), Kamal Krishna Banerjee (West Bengal) and Dr.Swaty (Uttar Pradesh) as National vice presidents, Dr. Chandra Bhushan Chaudhari (Jharkhand) as treasurer, Ranjit Rai as National organizing secretary and Fag Ram (Madhya Pradesh) Dr.Mahesh Vikram Singh (Uttar Pradesh) Atul Kumar (Delhi) and Tara Jadhav (Maharashtra) as National secretaries of the party.<br />
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This meeting of National Executive of Samajwadi Jan Parishad is being held when the political climate of nation is passing through an unprecedented political turmoil. Schedule for next Lok Sabha elections have been announced. Every democratic nation holds its elections at fixed interval under the aegis of its Election Commission. Opposition parties and civil society have alleged that Election Commission accommodated Prime Minister to announce all his pre-election sops and projects before making announcement of elections. This meeting of National Executive of SJP reiterates its commitment for adopting Proportional Representation in our election system in place of prevailing FPTP system which facilitates parties to win more seats despite getting less votes. SJP will create awareness for PR election system throughout the country. <br />
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All democratic forces are eagerly expecting defeat of BJP and its allies in the forthcoming elections. Modi govt draws its core support from Hindutva forces who keep attacking Muslims, Dalits, Tribals, Christians, women, and Kashmiris. These forces incite crowds to violence and have terrorised these groups as never before. <br />
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Entire govt machinery is being deployed to toe the line of Hindutva ideology. Intellectuals as well as the public at large are now apprehensive that this process will eventually destroy the very basic democratic structure of our republic. Our democracy has been founded on the values that evolved during long and arduous nationalistic freedom struggle. But philosophy of Hindutva is based on exclusion which is dangerous for the nation.<br />
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Samajwadi Jan Parishad once again pledges to deploy its full might to defeat Modi govt and Hindutva forces. We will play a key role in building the climate leading to defeat of Modi govt. But we are also wary of openly supporting major non-BJP political outfits since all of them justify interference of WTO, IMF, World Bank, Asian Development Bank etc in our economy and development planning.<br />
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Almost all political parties including BJP, Congress (I), Janata Pariwaar, Communists and Regional Parties have brought Upper Caste Reservation in order to jeopardise the ongoing reservation provisions for SCs, STs and OBCs which was an icon of social revolution in our caste infested society. The Upper Caste Reservation has been essentially introduced to undermine the ethos of our existing reservation institution. These political parties are also unanimous in not standing for fight against large scale displacement of Tribal and village population. They are not at all bothered about the growing disparity of wealth possession between poor and the rich. We have to restore alternate politics in favour of common citizens of India.<br />
We may get entrapped by providing open support to these opposition parties in order to defeat the dangerous entity called BJP which may not be conducive for growth of alternate politics. At the same time we are not certain about continuance of an anti-BJP party in it’s opposition. TDP, TMC, BJD are past allies of BJP. JDU of Nitish Kumar is a historical example which separated from BJP, defeated them in alliance with RJD and re-joined BJP to remain CM of Bihar. Such parties are unreliable and unpredictable. <br />
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In this scenario we have only alternative to approach the voters in constituencies where we are not fielding our own candidate. Whether to field a candidate or not, call will be taken by respective state committees. <br />
SJP is deeply worried on the ruling of Supreme Court to evacuate lakhs of tribal families whose applications have not been accepted under Forest Rights Law 2005. This situation has arisen due to total apathy of bureaucracy towards forest rights of Tribals and governments not strongly representing the concerns of Tribals before the courts. We will oppose all efforts of displacing tribals. These forest dwellers, forest animals and forest itself have been cohabiting with each other in harmony since time immemorial. The way Modi govt has withdrawn consent of Gram Sabhas for land acquisition for various projects on the very day of announcement of elections is entirely anti-people and undemocratic. We appeal to all democratic entities and civil society to jointly oppose this draconian step of Modi govt. <br />
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Proposed by – Joshi Jacob<br />
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9,10 मार्च को भुवनेश्वर में हुई राष्ट्रीय कार्यकारिणी में पारित राजबाइटिक प्रस्ताव।<br />
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समाजवादी जन परिषद की यह राष्ट्रीय कार्यकारिणी एक विकट राजनैतिक परिस्थिति में हो रही है।चुनाव सारिनी की घोषणा हो चुकी है।किसी भी लोकतांत्रिक देश में चुनाव नियत अंतराल में वहां के चुनाव आयोग द्वारा करवाये जाते हैं।सत्ताधारी गठबंधन के विपक्ष की पार्टियों व जम्हूरियत पसंद नागरिकों के मत में चुनाव आयोग प्रधान मम्न्त्री की सारी योजनाओं की घोषणा समाप्ति का इम्तेजार कर रहा था। राष्ट्रीय कार्यकारिणी यह दोहरा रही है कि वर्तमान में जो चुनाव प्रणाली है उसे अंग्रेजी में FPTP कहते हैं जिसमें कुल जनसंख्या में कम मत मिले होने के बावजूद कोई दल ज्यादा सीटें पा जाता है। आबादी का उचित प्रतिधित्व आनुपातिक प्रणाली द्वारा संभव है।सजप आनुपातिक प्रणाली लागू किए जाने के लिए अभियान चलाएगी।<br />
देश की सभी लोकतांत्रिक ताकतें तत्परता से भाजपा और उसके सहयोगियों की पराजय की उम्मीद लगाये हैं। मोदी सरकार की असली ताकत हिंदुत्ववादियों से आती है जो मुस्लिम,दलित,आदिवासियों , इसाइयों ,स्त्रियों तथा कश्मीरियों पर हमले करवाती रही है यहां तक की भीड द्वारा हत्याएं भी करवाती रही है। इन तबकों में भय पैदा कर दिया गया है।<br />
पूरे सरकारी तंत्र को हिंदुत्व विचारधारा के अनुरूप में काम करने के लिए बाध्य किया जा रहा है।जनता और बुद्धिजीवी तबके मन में आशंका है कि इस विचारधारा द्वारा लोकतांत्रिक ढांचे को खत्म कर दिया जाएगा। स्वतंत्रता के लिए चले राष्ट्रीय आंदोलन के दौरान विकसित मूल्यों से देश में लोकतंत्र स्थापित हुआ है।हिंदुत्व का दर्शन बहिष्कारवाद पर आधारित और इससे राष्ट्र को खतरा है।<br />
समाजवादी जन परिषद इस संकल्प को दोहरा रहे हैं कि मोदी सरकार और हिंदुत्व की ताकतों को परास्त करने की लिए पूरी ताकत लगा देंगे। मोदी सरकार को हराने के लिए माहौल बनाने में हमारी भूमिका रहेगी। गैर भाजपाई स्थापित दलों को खुला समर्थन देने का भी हमें कारण समझ में नहीं आता है।सभी गैर भाजपाई स्थापित दल अर्थनीति,विकास,विश्व व्यापार संगठन,मुद्रा कोश,एशियाई विकास बैंक द्वारा हमारी अर्थनीति में हस्तक्षेप को उचित मानते हैं।<br />
भाजपा,कांग्रेस,जनता परिवार के लगभग सभी दल,कम्युनिस्ट और क्षेत्रीय दलों ने अनुसूचित जाति,अनुसूचित जनजाति,अन्य पिछड़ा वर्ग के आरक्षण को नुकसान पहुंचाते हुए सवर्ण आरक्षण लागू किया है।जातिग्रस्त समाज में पहले से लागू आरक्षण सामाजिक क्रांति का प्रतीक है और सवर्ण आरक्षण ने इसकी उपेक्षा की है।ग्रामीण आबादी तथा जंगल से जुद़ी आदिवासी आबादी के व्यापक विस्थापन का विरोध न करने में भे यह सभी दल एक मत हैं।अमीर और गरीब के बीच बढ रही खाई की इन्हें चिंता नहीं है।हमें भारत की आम जनता के हक में वैकल्पिक राजनीति को जिंदा रखना है।<br />
खतरनाक भाजपा को पराजित करने के लिए इन दलों को खुला समर्थन देने पर हम एक जाल में फंस जाएंगे जिसे तोड़ न पाने की स्थिति में वैकल्पिक राजनीति का नुकसान होगा।इसके अलावा यह भय भी बना रहता है कि कौन सा भाजपा विरोधी दल गैर भाजपा खेमे में कब तक बना रहेगा। तेलुगु देशम,तृणमूल,बीजू जनता दल कभी न कभी भाजपा के साथ सत्ता में भागीदार रहे हैं।नीतीश कुमार और जदयू का उदाहरण भी आंखें खोलने वाला है।भाजपा का साथ छोड़कर उसे हराने वाले गठबम्धन का नेतृत्व किया,मुख्य मंत्री बने और फिर भाजपा का साथ पकड़ लिया।ऐसे दलों के बारे में कोई अनुमान नहीं लगाया जा सकता है तथा ये विशवसनीय नहीं हैं।<br />
इस परिपेक्ष्य में हमारे पास एक ही विकल्प है कि हम जहां चुनाव नहीं भी लड़ेंगे वहां वैकल्पिक राजनीति के साथ जनता के बीच जाएंगे।चुनाव लड़ने अथवा न लड़ने का निर्णय राज्य समितियां तय करेंगी।<br />
सजप इस बात से चिंतित हैं कि वनों में रहने वाले लाखों आदिवासी परिवारों ्को वनाधिकार कानून 2005 के तहत आवेदन अस्वीकृत होने के कारण सर्वोच्च न्यायालय ने उजाड़ने का निर्णय दिया है।आदिवासियों के वनाधिकार के प्रति नौकरशाही की उपेक्षा के कारन यह नौबत आई है तथा सरकार ने आदिवासियों का पक्ष न्यायालय के सामने मजबूती से रखा भी नहीं है। <br />
आदिवासियों को विस्थापित करने के हर प्रयास का हम विरोध करेंगे।आदिवासी,वन्य जीव तथा वन अनादिकाल से एक सामंजस्य के साथ रहते आए हैं।मोदी सरकार द्वारा परियोजनाओं के लिए ग्राम सभाओं की स्वीक्रिति का प्रावधान को चुनाव घोषणा के दिन हटा लेना पूरी तरह जन विरोधी और अलोकतांत्रिक है।सभी लोकतांत्रिक शक्तियों से हमारी अपील है कि इस अधिसूचना का विरोध करने के लिए एकजुट हों। <br />
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<b>Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, March 25, 2019:</b> Ranjit Kumar Rai,National organizing secretary of the Samajawadi Janaparishad filed his nomination in Jalpaiguri on Monday, March 25 for the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections.<br />
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The Pakistan Socialist Party was a political party in Pakistan.It was formed out of the branches of the Indian Socialist Party in the areas ceded to the new state of Pakistan.The PSP failed to make any political breakthrough in Pakistani politics.Being a secular socialist party, which had strongly opposed the creation of the state Pakistan, the PSP found itself politically isolated and with little mass appeal.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131151656916524712.post-1174282887989348392019-03-23T17:58:00.000+05:302019-03-23T17:58:48.980+05:30INDIAN SOCIALIST MARCH<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #999999;">Cut story - KS. GV procession. Various shots of Indians carrying banners march through streets, crowds walk along beside them. SCU of one person resembling Gandhi. CU another person (unknown) holding up his arms, bound in chains. Various angle shots of procession including elevated GVs of same.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">A very big procession was recently formed in Delhi by the Socialist party of India. Their protest was against living conditions.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Storyline The Indian People's Socialist Party stages mass anti-Nehru demonstration in New Delhi. Praja Socialist Party (PSP) leader, Nath Pai, addressed the crowd.</span><br />
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Two persons were killed and 50 injured at Vedanta’s alumina refinery unit in the town of Lanjigarh, situated in Odisha’s Kalahandi district on March 18, 2019.<br />
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The deceased have been identified as Dani Batra (45), a displaced person of Chatarapur village and Sujit Kumar Minj (32), a worker of the company.<br />
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The deaths happened after Odisha Industrial Security Force (OISF) personnel mercilessly used batons on displaced tribals demanding jobs.<br />
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Around 500 tribals launched an indefinite protest in front of the main gate of the refinery on March 18, demanding jobs and free education for their children in the Vedanta-managed school at Lanjigarh.<br />
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“The Vedanta Alumina Company acquired around 3,000 acres of land in 2004 in Rangopali, Potagada Bundel, Bandhuguda and other villages, on the promise of providing jobs. But now, the company is not considering our demands. The officials of the company also promised to provide free education for our children. But our kids are being denied education in the school of the company. We were peacefully agitating in front of the office when the OISF mercilessly attacked us. As a result, two persons were killed and many sustained injuries”, said Basant Batra (42) of Rangopali.<br />
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The officials of the company are giving priority to outsiders in the matter of jobs, depriving local youths, who have the requisite degrees and diplomas in different streams. Those who have lost land have also accused the company authorities of adopting anti-local policies in all the appointments in their project, in violation of the decisions of the Rehabilitation and Peripheral Development Advisory Committee, said <span style="background-color: yellow;">Lingaraj Azad</span>, National vice-president of <i>Samajabadi Jana Parisada </i>(Samajwadi Jan Parishad) and one of the leaders of <i>Niyamagiri Surakhya Samiti </i>(Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti).<br />
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Azad added that company officials have been reluctant to admit children of the displaced tribals on the pretext of shortage of seats.<br />
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Following the deaths of the two persons, Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure has been imposed at Lanjigarh and neighbouring areas.<br />
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Any public meeting, assembly of five or more people and processions has been prohibited for now. The district administration has appealed to people to maintain peace in the area.<br />
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Security forces have been deployed to check any untoward incident, said Gupteswar Bhoi, Sub- Divisional Police Officer of Kalahandi.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131151656916524712.post-68981866284106127342019-03-15T19:59:00.000+05:302019-03-15T19:59:08.917+05:30Despite CRPF Repression in Niyamgiri<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Despite CRPF repression in Niyamgiri the Dongria Kondh community had a celebratory welcome for Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti leader and activist Lingaraj Azad.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131151656916524712.post-50092921489763690862019-03-12T20:12:00.000+05:302019-03-21T19:10:58.596+05:30Dongria Kondh people Of Niyamgiri Stage Protest Demanding To Release Lingaraj Azad<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Dangaria Adibasi Of Niyamgiri Stage Protest Demanding To Release Lingaraj Azad<br />
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In response to the arrest of Lingaraj Azad, tribal leader of the Dongria Khand of Niyamgiri Hills on March 6, the tribal community staged a protest outside the Odisha Assembly in Bhubaneswar on March 11. Tribals were led by workers of the Samajwadi Jan Parishad and were demanding the immediate release of Azad from the Bhawanipatna jail. Samajwadi Jan Parishad leaders later met governor Ganeshi Lal on the issue. Azad was arrested by Kalahandi police under suspicion for two cases.<br />
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Adivasis protest in Bhubaneswar against the arrest of supporter and activist Lingaraj Azad and demand his immediate release<br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;">The Samajvadi Jan Parishad and National Alliance of People’s Movements staged a protest with tribals from Niyamgiri hills decrying the arrest of tribal leader Lingaraj Azad who had successfully opposed the mining of the hills.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">The silent protest by tribals here was followed by a delegation submitting a memorandum to Governor Prof Ganeshi Lal. The Dongaria tribe of Niyamgiri hills are subjected to gross human rights violation and police repression said the SJP and NAPM activists Prafulla Samantara, Joshi Jyckob, Dadi Pusika and others. After a series of battles to save Niyamgiri from the aggression of a mega multinational Aluminum Company Vedanta, the Dongarias got a favorable verdict from our Supreme Court on 18 April, 2013 which directed the government to conduct Gram Sabhas to seek the mandate of the people for mining.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">The Dongarias and other inhabitants of Niyamgiri unanimously rejected mining in the officially conducted Gram Sabhas under the supervision of a District Judge.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">But after the unanimous verdict of Dongarias against mining, a proxy war against the tribals has been unleashed with the help of the police to crush the tribal movement by labelling leaders as Maoists, they alleged.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">The Naveen Patnaik government, notwithstanding the rhetoric they use in the name of tribal empowerment, have indeed aided the company in Niyamgiri, they alleged.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Lingaraj Azad who has been helping the Dongarias for the last 17 years since the time when the Maoist issue was not even whispered in the area. He has been booked under false cases, they alleged.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Much before that they had picked up the leader of the movement Lada Sikaka on false premises.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Azad, who happens to be the National Vice President of Samajavadi Jan Parishad and also a convener of the National Alliance of Peoples’ Movements (NAPM) has been arrested and threatened several times in all these years.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Citing the instance that led to the arrest of Azad, they said, a public hearing had opposed handing over of the Panchayat office to the CRPF to setup its camp. They noted that it is a Schedule V area and PESA is the law that governs the area but the administration and police were least concerned about the laws of the land.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">List out their demands they said repression of peaceful and democratic activists like Lingaraj Azad, Lada Sikaka, Dadhi, Drenju and several others must stop, erring police officers booked, the Trilochanpur panchayat office given back to the villegers etc.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Lingaraj Azad, convener of Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti (NSS), who was arrested last week, was granted bail by a local court in Kalahandi district on Monday.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">“We are happy that Mr. Azad, who was arrested on flimsy grounds, will be released from jail,” said activist Prafulla Samantara, who met Governor Ganeshi Lal here to seek his intervention on the police and administration’s “illogical” actions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Mr. Azad had been charged for leading a demonstration outside the Vedanta alumina refinery at Lanjigarh on the foothills of Niyamgiri in April 2017 and for a demonstration outside the India Reserve Battalion camp at Trilochanpur village last month. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">The activist was earlier granted bail in the Lanjigarh case while the court granted him bail in the Trilochanpur case on Monday.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Earlier in the day, a group of Dongria Kondhs, a tribal group, who had rejected a bauxite mining proposal through their gram sabhas in Niyamgiri in 2013, came to Bhubaneswar to express solidarity with Mr. Azad. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">“The decision to arrest Mr. Azad was an atrocious one. We have been peacefully protesting against attempts to start mining in Niyamgiri Hills. The government wants to bully us through indiscriminate arrests. The police had also slapped fabricated cases against me and Lada Sikaka, NSS chief,” said Dadhi Pusika, a Dongria Kondh community leader. He was part of the delegation that met the Governor.</span></div>
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<b>Kalahandi, March 11, 2019: </b>Lingaraj Azad, adviser of Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti (NSS) and the National Vice-President of Samajwadi Jan Parishad , who was arrested on 6th March, 2019, was granted bail by the Bhawanipatna SDJM court in Kalahandi district on Monday, March 11.<br />
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Kalahandi, March 11, 2019: T<strike>he Bhawanipatna SDJM court today rejected the bail plea of Lingaraj Azad, activist and adviser of Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti.</strike><br />
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Azad, a known tribal rights campaigner was arrested by police on Wednesday for allegedly possessing arms, supporting the Maoists and mobilising other tribal leaders against mining in Lanjigarh.<br />
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Shri Lingaraj Azad, a leader of the anti-mining movement in Niyamgiri, who is also the vice- president of the political party Samajwadi Jan Parishad, has been arrested by the Kalahandi police on 6th March, 2019. The arrest of Shri Azad is yet another repressive act of the Government of Odisha meant to silence the voices of resistance of the people of Niyamgiri against Bauxite mining.</div>
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In the early morning of 6th March, some policemen from Kesinga Thana reached the house of Shri Azad, who lives with his family in a village named Kandel, about 15 kms from the town. He was woken up by the police and told that the SDPO had asked him to come to the Thana. After reaching the thana, he was interrogated by the police for several hours about a case which was filed in 2017 in the adjacent Thana of Lanjigarh. Then he was arrested and handed over to Lanjigarh police. Later in the day, he was produced before the Magistrate in Bhawanipatna, the district headquarters of Kalahandi.</div>
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At the Court, Shri Azad was represented by a lawyer who moved his bail application. However, Shri Azad was neither granted bail nor was his bail application rejected. The Magistrate kept it for consideration to be heard on the 8th and Shri was sent to judicial custody.</div>
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According to the police records, there are two cases against Shri Azad. One is case number 28/dated 26.04.2017 under Sections 143, 147, 148, 149, 341, 120B of the Indian Penal Code. This case is in connection with a protest demonstration which the Adivasis of Niyamgiri had staged in front of Vedanta’s Alumina Plant about two years ago. According to Azad’s lawyer Shri Purna Chandra Pradhan, there is no police record to show that Shri Azad was absconding or was issued summons to report at the police station.</div>
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The other case is in connection with a protest demonstration held in February, 2019, by the local Adivasis against the setting up of a CRPF camp near Trilochanpur village. The Sections under which this case is filed are - 147, 148, 294, 506 and 149 of the IPC, and Section 27 of the Arms Act.</div>
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It needs to be noted that, local adivasis including Dongria Kondhs of Niyamgiri have been protesting against the Alumina Plant and Bauxite mining, for more than a decade under the banner of Niyamgiri Surakhya Samiti. Shri Azad has been part of the NSS from the very beginning, and has been jailed more than once for raising his voice against Vedanta.</div>
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The State government, however, has been keen to hand over the hills to Vedanta and adopted all means, including the use of force, to suppress the movement. Picking up people from market place, illegal detention, arrest of innocent people, slapping false cases and threatening to name them as ‘Maoists’ all these have been regular phenomena by the government, in the area. The deployment of para-military forces and combing operations in the name of curbing Maoists has been a constant threat to the common people living in the region.</div>
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The latest development in this regard has been the setting up of a CRPF camp in Trilochanpur village, despite strong opposition from the local people. This camp has been put up right at the Gram Panchayat office premises hampering its regular functioning. Local people have organised several protest rallies opposing the camp at Trilochanpur. One of the cases against Lingaraj Azad, which invokes, among others, the Section-27 of the Arms Act, pertains to his participation in one such rally held in February 2019.</div>
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Earlier, in October last year, Lodo Sikaka, one of the leaders of the Niyamgiri Surakhya Samiti, was picked up from the market place by the local police and was tortured. He was threatened to be booked as a ‘Maoist’, if he continued to organise people against mining.</div>
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In December last year, British Kumar, a resident of the Karlapat area (adjacent to Niyamgiri hills and a part of the proposed areas of Bauxite mining for Vedanta) was picked up by the police. He was ordered to report on a daily basis at the local police station, which itself is located near a CRPF camp. British Kumar has been opposing the mining project, but there was no case against him. This illegal action of the police could be stopped only after the Odisha Human Rights Commission intervened.</div>
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PUCL strongly condemns the arrest of Shri Lingaraj Azad which is nothing but a ploy to suppress the democratic voice of the Adivasis of Niyamgiri and those who have been raising voices against bauxite mining. PUCL also demands that the Government of Odisha withdraw the CRPF camp at Trilochanpur, respecting genuine concerns of the local people and stop using the law and order machinery to further the interests of corporate houses at the cost of local people.</div>
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BHUBANESWAR: Rights activists including Prafulla Samantara on Friday appealed the state government to unconditionally release Niyamgiri Surakshya Samiti advisor Lingaraj Azad from Bhawanipatna jail. He was arrested by Kalahandi police on Wednesday in connection with two cases pending against him.<br />
The activists including Narendra Mohanty, Chandranath Dani and Gopinath Majhi have approached United Nations’ special rapporteurs, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) for their intervention into the matter in order to release Azad.<br />
Samantara, president of Lok Shakti Abhiyan, said the press release issued by the state police headquarters on Wednesday revealed the tactics of the police to arrest him.<br />
“The release at the beginning said that Azad is a Maoist sympathiser, while it later mentioned him as an activist who organises meetings against bauxite mining in Niyamgiri area. If an activist stages protest against mining in their area, it is not an offence. Even the Supreme Court had earlier asked the gram sabhas to decide whether mining can be held in Niyamgiri or not. People have the right to stage peaceful assembly against any wrongdoing of the state. Police has slapped fabricated charges on him,” he added.<br />
Inspector general (headquarters) Asheet Kumar Panigrahi said the Kalahandi police arrested Azad for his involvement in a case in 2017 and another case on February 18 for unlawful assembly and other charges.<br />
“According to the election guidelines, the director general of police (DGP) has issued detailed instructions to take measures to curb anti-social activism, warrant execution and raid on excise. In this particular case, DGP RP Sharma has not particularly ordered to arrest Azad or anybody. Kalahandi police issued the warrant and arrested Azad for his involvement in two cases pending against him,” he added.<br />
The activists urged chief minister Naveen Patnaik to intervene into the matter immediately and ensure that all cases against Azad and other innocent activists are immediately dropped. “Azad should be released at the earliest otherwise the movement will be intensified to expose the government,” said the activists.<br />
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BHAWANIPATNA/BERHAMPUR: A day after police arrested Lingaraj Azad, a known tribal rights campaigner, members of various outfits staged protests demanding his unconditional release.<br />
Several social activists staged demonstration in front of the revenue divisional commissioner (RDC)’s office in Berhampur and submitted a memorandum addressed to Governor Ganshi Lal demanding his unconditional release. Many tribals have threatened to demonstrate in front of Kalahandi collector’s office on Friday.<br />
Lingaraj, adviser Niyamgiri Surakhya Samiti, a tribal outfight opposed to mining in Niyamgiri, was sent to Bhawanipatna Jail on Wednesday after police arrested him for allegedly possessing arms, supporting the Maoists and mobilising other tribal leaders against mining in Lanjigarh.<br />
Theopil Gamang, convenor, Ingenious People’s Forum, a tribal outfit, termed Azad’s arrest as illegal. "It’s a government ploy to favour certain companies by arresting Azad as he is opposed to mining Niyamgiri. He has been fighting for protection of tribals’ interest,” Theopil said.<br />
Prafulla Samantara, an activist who has also been at the forefront of anti-mining movement of tribals in Niyamgiri hills, said it’s a cause of serious concern that the government is trying to falsely implicate Azad as Maoist sympathiser. “It seems, a well-crafted strategy to keep Azad behind bars to kill the tribals’ movement,” he said.<br />
Satya Mahar, the convenor of Niyamgiri Surakhya Samiti said Lingraj was the first person, who had motivated the locals of Trilochanpur to participate in the 2014 election when Maoists had threatened the people to keep away themselves from voting. “How could be Lingaraj linked to Maoists,” Satya asked. The government is trying to supress the tribal voice against the mining, he added.<br />
Police sources said Lingaraj was arrested in the wake of DGP R P Sharma directing police to nab the anti-socials, Maoists sympathisers and other disturbing elements before the general elections-2019.<br />
Additional SP of Kalahandi, M K Mohanta told the reporters in Bhawanipatna on Thursday that Lingaraj was arrested in two different cases.<br />
Police said, Lingaraj along with tribals had agitated and threatened in front of Vedanta gate for which Vedanta security head, Rajiv Ranjan had lodged an FIR against Azad and his associates in 2017.<br />
In 2019, Bijepur police station, ASI-Tankadhar Budhia, had registered another case against Lingaraj and four other tribal leaders for holding rallies and threatening the police against setting up of proposed CRPF camp at Trilochanpur.<br />
State co-ordinator of SC, ST, OBC and minority Sangram Samiti, Satyabadi Naik said Lingaraj peacefully protested against the CRPF camp bcause the jawans forcibly acquired the panchayat building of Trilochanpur in the name of proposed construction.<br />
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Lingaraj Azad- Gandhian, Niyamgiri Surakhya Samiti (NSS) leader- has been arrested, taken to Bhawanipatna jail in Odisha. NSS members have been targeted ever since they mobilised local Adivasi and Dalit communities who vetoed UK-based Vedanta’s mining plans.<br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Lingaraj Azad has supported the Dongria Kondh tribe’s iconic resistance to the Vedanta group’s plan to mine the Niyamgiri hills for bauxite.</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">...In Odisha, the members of the Dongria tribe of Niyamgiri, have planned to take out a march in the state capital on March 11 to protest against the Supreme Court’s order to evict them from forest land. Their leader Lingaraj Azad was arrested on March 6 on various charges including that of sedition....</span></i><br />
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PUDR protests the illegal arrest of Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti member Lingaraj Azad, who has been at the forefront of the peoples struggle against bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri hills, and the continuing repression against the people through routine detention of NSS leaders, security camps, patrolling and raids on villages.</div>
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Lingaraj Azad was detained and arrested on 6 March in Lanjigarh when two FIRs against him, one of April 2017 and another of February 2019, were resuscitated, in continuation of the trend under the current regime where retributive FIRs are used as ticking time bombs against activists and dissenters. The FIR of April 2017 accuses him of unlawful assembly, rioting with weapons, wrongful restraint, criminal conspiracy, among others under the IPC, for his participation in a protest outside Vedanta’s Alumina Plant. The FIR of February 2019 contains accusations of unlawful assembly, rioting, singing obscene songs and criminal intimidation under IPC, and the Arms Act for use of weapons, for his participation in a protest in Tirlochanpur against the setting up of CRPF camps.</div>
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One needs to look no further than the Odisha government’s own press release to reveal the reasons behind his arrest, which labels him a ‘Maoist sympathizer’, and a ‘nuisance’-maker who organizes meetings against bauxite mining and rallies against setting up of CRPF camps. NSS in particular has been subject to this intensified repression since 2016-17, when the Home Ministry declared it a ‘Maoist outfit’ and was met with strong protests. Lada Sikaka, another member of NSS, was illegally detained and assaulted in custody by the Raigarh police on 23 October 2018 for organizing a rally against the setting up of CRPF camps, surveillance and combing operations. Separately, British, a member of the Bhumi Adhikar Suraksha Samiti and CPI(M) had also been illegally detained and assaulted in Kalahandi.</div>
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The brazen abuse of state power, illegalities and violation of fundamental rights are made possible by the overarching climate of intense state repression against rights activists, dissenters and peoples movements, where illegal arrests, detentions, fabricated cases, encounters, militarization, sedition and UAPA have become part of the regular vocabulary of the fascist Hindutva-vadi regime.</div>
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It must be remembered that in 2013, 12 gram Sabhas unanimously and unequivocally rejected bauxite mining by Orissa Mining Corporation Limited in the Niyamgiri forests, under protection of a Supreme Court judgment, yet the greed of Vedanta and OMCL remains unvanquished. While attempting to have the Gram Sabha decision reconsidered in the Supreme Court, they are complicit with the state government in ensuring that the people of Niyamgiri are terrorised into handing over their <i>jal, jangal, zameen.</i></div>
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(1) immediate and unconditional release of Lingaraj Azad and the quashing of all FIRs against him,</div>
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(2) accountability for the illegal arrests and detentions, and custodial violence against Lada Sikaka, British and other people of Niyamgiri,</div>
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(3) stop the targeted persecution of Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti and the people of Niyamgiri</div>
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(4) withdrawal of security camps and patrolling,</div>
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(5) withdrawal of all proposed mining projects in the Niyamgiri hills.</div>
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Deepika Tandon and Shahana Bhattacharya<br />
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SANHATI http://sanhati.com/articles/19137/<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Human Rights Defenders Alert – India</span></h2>
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">March 7, 2019</span></div>
<span style="color: #0c343d;">To,</span><br />
<b><span style="color: #0c343d;">Mr. Khaleel Ahmed,</span></b><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">National Focal Point - Human Rights Defenders & Deputy Registrar</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">National Human Rights Commission</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">Sub: HRDA Alert – India – Urgent Appeal for Action- Odisha- Mr. Lingaraj Azad - Arrest of Mr. Lingaraj Azad, leader of Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti in Odisha -Regarding</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">Dear Sir,</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Greetings from Human Rights Defenders Alert - India!</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">HRD Alert - India is a forum of Human Rights Defenders for Human Rights Defenders. It endeavours to initiate actions on behalf of Human Rights Defenders under threat or with security concerns.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">We are now writing to express our grave concern regarding the repeated judicial harassment and arrest of human rights defender Mr.Lingaraj Azad, leader of Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti, Odisha by the Kesinga police under false charges.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #0c343d;">Status of Human Rights Defender:</span></b><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Mr. Lingaraj Azad, is an indigenous tribal activist from the Kalahandi District of Odisha and has been struggling against bauxite mining in Niyamgiri area of Kalahandi and Rayagada districts in Odisha, where Dongria Kondh (indigenous tribal commuity) are to be displaced forcibly from the thirty villages due to bauxite mining. Mr. Lingaraj Azad is a fierce fighter for the rights of the adivasis. He is the National Vice-President of Samajwadi Jan Parishad and National Convener of National Alliance of Peoples Movement (NAPM) under which he has successfully led the peoples movement and fought the valiant struggle against Vedanta Corporation. In nearly three decades of his activism, Mr. Lingaraj has faced physical attacks, arrests, judicial harassments from the State in connivance with corporates due his struggle against the systemic oppression and corporate loot of the natural resources in the region.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #0c343d;">Source of Information:</span></b><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">• Regional Coordinator HRDA for Eastern zone</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">• Advocate Sidharth Nayak, who is Mr. Lingaraj’s legal counsel</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">• Another HRD from the region (anonymous)</span><br />
<b><span style="color: #0c343d;">Perpetrators:</span></b><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">• Mr. Battula Gangadhar, Superintendent of Police, Kalahandi;</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">• Mr.Gupteswar Bhoi, Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Kesinga Police station;</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">• Mr. Mohapatra, Inspector In Charge Kesinga Police Station;</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">• Mr. Sanjay Kumar Mandal, Inspector In Charge Lanjigarh Police Station.</span><br />
<b><span style="color: #0c343d;">Date of Incident:</span></b><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">March 6, 2019</span><br />
<b><span style="color: #0c343d;">Brief History</span></b><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Dongria Kondh, is a vulnerable indigenous tribal group that resides in the Niyamgiri hill range, Odisha. The Odisha Mining Corporation (OMC), which is a public sector undertaking allowed Sterlite Industries, owned by Vedanta Corporation to mine bauxite from the Niyamgiti area by violating the Forest Rights Act and The Provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act (PESA), which was opposed by the Dongrias who consider the hill range as the abode of their traditional god ‘Niyam Raja’. Since then the said tribal group formed an association named “Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti” (NSS), which opposed the mining. After the landmark Supreme Court verdict in 2013 in the case of Orissa Mining Corporation Vs Union of India, the mining came to a halt, but Sterlite Industries along with OMC is now trying to re-start the mining by displacing the Dongrias from the nearby thirty villages. Mr. Azad was leading the NSS, since its inception because of which the local police is trying to arrest him in different fabricated and false charges inorder to help the mining companies to start the displacement of the indigenous community without much resistance.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">As per the sources, on March 6, 2019, while Mr. Azad was in his village, one police personnel from the Kesinga Police Station came to his house and asked him come along with him to meet Mr.Gupteswar Bhoi, who is the SDPO. Mr. Azad refused to go along with him and told him that he would go on his own to meet the SDPO. Accordingly, he went to the Kesinga police station in his bike from his village and at the police station, he met the SDPO. The SDPO informed Mr. Azad that the reason to summon him to the police station was to question him in an old case registered with the Lanjigarh police station and therefore personnel from the said police station had come to meet him.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">After a few hours, Mr. Lingaraj was told that he is now being arrested for two old cases bearing Case No. 28 dated 26/04/2017 under Sections 143,147,148,188,149, of the </span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Indian Penal Code (IPC) 7 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) along with 341,120 B of the IPC and another case bearing Case No. 1 of 2019 dated 18/2/2019 under Sections 147,148, 294, 506,149 IPC and 27 of the Arms Act. After medical checkup, he was forwarded to Bhawanipatna district court and remanded to custody.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">It is pointed out here that arrest and brazen attack of Mr. Lingaraj by the Odisha government just before general elections is a planned action and is done just to stop him from continuing the anti-displacement activism so as to discontinue him from carrying forward his struggle for the indigenous people.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #0c343d;">Appeal:</span></b><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">We, therefore urge you to immediately take necessary action to ensure that the Superintendent of Police and the District Collector of Kalahandi District:</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">• Order immediate and unconditional release of Mr. Lingaraj;</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">• Order that the State Legal Services Authority to send a senior criminal lawyer of Mr. Lingaraj Azad’s choice to represent in the cases for which he has been arrested now and others which he is facing at state cost;</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">• Order an immediate, thorough, transparent, effective and impartial speedy investigation into the above-mentioned incident;</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">• Guarantee in all circumstances the physical and psychological safety and integrity of the HRD Mr. Azad, his family members, other community leaders and members who are still under risk from the perpetrators.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">Looking forward to your immediate action in this regard,</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Yours sincerely,</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #0c343d;">Henri Tiphagne</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #0c343d;">National Working Secretary</span></b><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131151656916524712.post-79734753693234024022019-03-09T20:00:00.000+05:302019-03-09T20:00:06.802+05:30Arrest Of Lingaraj Azad Part Of Odisha Govt’s Efforts To Provide Fresh Lease Of Life To Vedanta<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: orange;">Activists and civil society organisations from across the country are up in arms over the arrest of Lingaraj Azad, the leader of Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti (NSS), which spearheaded the movement against bauxite mining by aluminium major Vedanta in the Niyamgiri hills, considered sacred by the local Dongria Kondhs.</span><br />
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Activists and civil society organisations from across the country are up in arms over the arrest of Lingaraj Azad, the leader of Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti (NSS), which spearheaded the movement against bauxite mining by aluminium major Vedanta in the Niyamgiri hills, considered sacred by the local Dongria Kondhs. Terming the arrest of Azad, who is also the national vice president of Samajwadi Jan Parishad and national convenor of National Alliance for People’s Movements (NAPM), undemocratic, vindictive and politically motivated, they have demanded his immediate release and dropping of all ‘cooked up’ charges against him. They have also drawn the attention of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) and the United Nations special rapporteur seeking their intervention in the matter.<br />
For the record, Odisha police has sought to attribute the arrest of Azad on March 6 to the ‘search and raid operations to nab the anti-socials, Maoist sympathisers and other disturbing elements before the General Elections, 2019’ ordered by DGP Dr. RP Sharma. But there is little doubt that the move is part of the Odisha government’s desperate efforts to provide bauxite to the Vedanta refinery at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district, which has been starved of raw material ever since 12 Gram Sabhas in and around the Niyamgiri hills unanimously rejected the proposal for bauxite mining in the hills under the historic, Supreme Court mandated referendum in July, August, 2013. Having failed to hand over the bauxite rich Niyamgiri hills – which has deposits of an estimated 80 million tons - on a platter to Vedanta after the SC’s intervention, the Naveen Patnaik government has now embarked on its Plan B, which envisages ‘compensating’ the Anil Agarwal owned company with bauxite from the Kodingamali hills in neighbouring Koraput district. A corridor between Kodingamali and Niyamgiri is already in an advanced stage of construction while the state government has committed itself to providing Vedanta 70% of its bauxite requirement from the Kodingamali hills under its long-term linkage policy announced last year.<br />
Azad has clearly invited the wrath of the government because he has proved to be a stumbling block in carrying out the government’s new, alternative plan, organising the local Kondhs against it. And branding the leaders of the anti-mining movement ‘Maoist sympathisers’ and putting them behind bars on flimsy charges has been a time-tested tactic of state governments in Odisha and neigbouring Chhattisgarh.<br />
Eminent activist Prafulla Samantara, the head of Lok Shakti Abhijan who won the Goldman Environment Award, considered the ‘Green Nobel’, in 2017, laughs at the allegation. “Does fighting for the rights of the indigenous tribes make someone a Maoist sympathiser?” he asks terming the charge ‘false and fabricated’ and demanding the immediate release of Azad.<br />
The immediate trigger for Azad’s arrest was an incident on February 18 where members of NSS and local tribals protested the setting up of a CRPF camp at Trilochanpur village on the foothills of Niyamgiri. Kalahandi SP B Gangadhar says Azad led an attack on the camp with about 250 adivasis armed with ‘bows and arrows’. But Samantara says the charge is laughable. “The SP should know that tribals always carry bows and arrows whenever there come for a gathering. The protest was entirely peaceful. No one attacked the camp. You can verify this,” he says. The camp is seen by the native Kondhs as a tactic to intimidate them and to facilitate the hassle-free construction of the corridor linking the Kodingamali and Niyamgiri hills.<br />
The clamour for the release of Azad has been growing with each passing day. Among the prominent activists and organizations who have condemned the arrest of Azad and demanded his immediate release are Medha Patkar, Yogendra Yadav, Binayak Sen, Damayanti Barla, NAPM, SJP and PUDR. Tribals under the banner of NSS and Sachetana Nagarik Manch protested against the arrest of Azad at Bhawanipatna on Friday while SJP plans to submit a memorandum to Governor Prof. Ganeshi Lal seeking his intervention on March 11.<br />
But if its past record is anything to go by, the Naveen Patnaik government is unlikely to heed the protest and can be trusted to go the whole hog in its scarcely veiled efforts to give a fresh lease of life to Vedanta, which has been languishing for the last six years due to the shortage of bauxite.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">BHUBANESWAR, March 07, 2019 00:00 IST </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Updated: March 07, 2019 05:05 IST </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mr. Gangadhar told <i>The Hindu</i> that a police team from Bijepur arrested the rights activist from Kesinga police station area of the district in a case relating to a protest demonstration outside the India Reserve Battalion camp at Trilochanpur village last month.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Activist Prafulla Samantara, who has been involved in the agitation against proposed bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri hills, however, claimed that the villagers were opposing the IRB camp since the security personnel had occupied their gram panchayat office without the consent of its office-bearers.</span><br />
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</span></b> <span style="font-size: large;">Mr. Azad has also been charged for staging a protest demonstration outside the Vedanta alumina refinery on the foothills of Niyamgiri; a case had been registered at Lanjigarh police station in April 2017 in this regard.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">He was later produced before a court at Bhawanipatna which remanded him in judicial custody.</span><br />
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</span></b> <span style="font-size: large;">The development took many activists supporting the cause of the tribals living in the Niyamgiri hills by surprise. Terming Mr. Azad’s arrest illegal, SJP and NAPM activists demanded his immediate release.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Activists also passed a resolution condemning the arrest.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">“We condemn Mr. Azad’s arrest ahead of the SJP’s proposed rally in Bhubaneswar on March 11 on the continued violations of rights in Niyamgiri hills,” said Aflatoon, all-India general secretary of the SJP.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ead1dc;">By Prof Madhu Prasad, Dr Vikas Gupta*</span><br />
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</span> The All-India Forum for Right to Education (AIFRTE) organized on February 18 in Delhi a protest demonstration at Parliament Street, a nation-wide referendum on education policy, a People’s Parliament (Jan Sansad), and an evening of cultural resistance as part the full-day All-India Shiksha Hunkar Rally. <br />
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Thousands of students, teachers and education activists from across the country participated in the programme. They opposed the policy of privatization, commercialization and communalization of education. <br />
They demanded public-funded free and equitable quality ‘common education system’ from KG to PG based on mother-tongue with social justice for Dalits, bahujans, adivasis, laboring masses, linguistic and religious minorities, transgenders, disabled, de-notified and nomadic tribes, especially girls. <br />
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The programme began with a protest demonstration at Sansad Marg addressed by Brinda Karat (CPI-M); Kavita Krishnan, CPI-ML (Liberation); N. Ramachandran, CPI-ML (Red Star), Dr Mrigank, CPI-ML (New Democracy); Prof Manoj Jha (Spokesperson, RJD); Prof Prem Singh, Socialist Party (India) and <span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Sri Aflatoon, Samajwadi Jan Parishad</span>; Prof Arun Kumar (JNU) alongside with AIFRTE Presidium Members Prof. Anil Sadgopal and Prof. G Haragopal. <br />
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Regretting his ability to attend, Chandrasekhar, leader of the Bhim Army, sent a message of support.<br />
Effigies of many educational policies which are regarded by AIFRTE as leading to inequality and exclusion in education were burnt. A nation-wide referendum on educational policy has been floated by AIFRTE till March 18, 2019. <br />
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Thousands of ballot papers have been already submitted to the Referendum Commission comprising of Prof Manoranjan Mohanty (chairperson), Adv Sanjay Parikh, Adv Ashok Aggarwal, Dr Harjeet Singh Bhatti, Prof G Haragopal, Prof Madhu Prasad. <br />
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The primary analysis of trend demonstrates people’s aspiration for an egalitarian education system fully and directly funded by the state and free of all discrimination on the grounds of language, caste, class, gender, disability, ethnicity and religion. <br />
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The demonstration was followed by a People’s Parliament (Jan Sansad) at Ambedkar Bhawan presided by Prof Prabhat Patnaik, Prof. KM Shrimali, Prof K Chakradhar Rao, Prof Zhatsu Terhuja, Prof. Jagmohan Singh (great-grand nephew of Shahid Bhagat Singh) Sri Prabhakar Arade, Prof Anil Sadgopal and addressed by representatives of people’s movements. <br />
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The People’s Parliament adopted two resolutions. The first resolution condemned illegal arrest and the continuing threat of arrest on trumped-up charges against Prof Anand Teltumbde, member of AIFRTE Presidium. In the second resolution, AIFRTE demanded that any future government following the general elections to be held in April-May 2019 should reverse the trend of corporatization being followed at the command of World Trade Organization-General Agreement on Trade in Services (WTO-GATS) in pursuit of the neo-liberal reforms policies promoting profit-making in education and contractualisation of services. It also unequivocally stated its opposition to communalization in education. <br />
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AIFRTE participants raised the slogan ‘Education is the People’s Right! It is not a commodity for Sale!’ AIFRTE opposed the model of PPP (Public Private Partnership), fee hikes, education loans, and discrimination between elite and ordinary institutions, which lead to exclusion of the mass of children and youth from access to equitable quality education. <br />
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AIFRTE demanded establishment of a nation-wide fully state-funded and entirely free Common System of Education from “KG to PG" to ensure the Fundamental Right to education for all children and youth. It demanded that the first step towards achieving this goal was to implement the Allahabad High Court judgment of August 2015 through a central legislation. <br />
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The judgement directed that all those who receive any form of pecuniary benefit from the State treasury must admit their children to the neighbourhood government school only, so that all children attend common schools all of which would be rapidly raised to the level of Kendriya Vidyalayas once the children of politicians, bureaucrats, business and the professional middle classes are also required to attend these schools. <br />
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This was followed by a programme of cultural resistance wherein cultural groups from several states presented performances giving expression to people’s angst against injustice and oppression and fascist-brahmanical- patriarchal attempts to impose cultural homogeneity. <br />
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Qurban Ali</b><br />
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Vetaran Socialist leader noted jurist and champion of human rights Justice (retired) Rajinder Sachar passed away in Delhi on 20th April 2018. He was 94. A distinguished advocate for the protection of human rights, and poor, Justice Sachar was a former Chief Justice of Delhi and Sikkim High Courts. He vociferously promoted the cause of human rights and was also head of People's Union of Civil Liberty (PUCL). He authored many reports on Kashmir.<br />
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Paying emotional tribute on the sad demise of late Justice Rajindar Sachar, senior journalist Seema Mustafa wrote “One of our finest has gone. Justice Rajinder Sachar has left us, fairly suddenly without too much notice except that delivered by age. A mentor, a friend, a man whose doors were always open he will be sorely missed. He did not really care---unlike Delhi’s famous---whether he was invited to speak or not, if he supported the cause he was there in the audience, listening attentively. For many of us he was the person we turned to when the times seemed very bleak and dark, just to hear Justice Sachar tell us that it will get better. The wisdom of experience and age gave his voice authority, and lifted spirits when little else would”.<br />
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Rajindar Sachar was born on 22nd December 1923 at Lahore in undivided India. His father Lala Bhim Sen Sachar was a well-known Congress leader and later become Chief Minister of Punjab. He educated at D.A.V. High School in Lahore, then went on to Government College Lahore and Law College, Lahore. During his students days he was attached to National movement and joined Congress Socialist Party. After the partition of the country he came to Delhi and joined Socialist party.<br />
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In May 1949, the Socialist Party under Rammanohar Lohia’s leadership held a demonstration in front of the Nepal embassy in New Delhi to protest against the autocratic and repressive regime of<br />
the Rana government in the Himalayan kingdom. There was violence and the police used teargas shells to disperse the mob.<br />
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Lohia was arrested for violating Section 144 CRPC. Young Rajinder Sachar was also arrested with Lohia and remained in jail for a month and a half. According to Sachar sahib “It was during that imprisonment that Nehru and Indira sent a basket of mangoes to Lohia. Sardar Patel was very angry and wrote to Nehru expressing his annoyance over sending mangoes to a person who had violated the law. Nehru in his quiet way told him that politics and personal relationships should not be mixed up”. It was a first movement and arrest in free India where Socialist offered civil disobedience”.<br />
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On 22 April 1952 Rajinder Sachar enrolled as an advocate at Simla. On 8 December 1960 he became an advocate in the Supreme Court of India, engaging in a wide variety of cases concerning civil, criminal and revenue issues. But at the same time he was actively associated with the Socialist Party led by Lohia. In 1963 a breakaway group of legislators left the Congress party and formed the independent "Prajatantra Party". Sachar helped this group prepare memoranda levelling charges of corruption and mal-administration against Pratap Singh Kairon, Chief Minister of Punjab. Justice Sudhi Ranjan Das was appointed to look into the charges, and in June 1964 found Kairon guilty on eight counts.<br />
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On 12 February 1970 Rajinder Sachar was appointed Additional Judge of the Delhi High Court for a two-year term, and on 12 February 1972 he was reappointed for another two years. On 5 July 1972 he was appointed a permanent Judge of the High Court. He was acting chief justice of the Sikkim High court from 16 May 1975 until 10 May 1976, when he was made a judge in the Rajasthan High Court. The transfer from Sikkim to Rajasthan was made without Sachar's consent during the Emergency (June 1975 – March 1977) when elections and civil liberties were suspended.<br />
Sachar was one of the judges that refused to follow the bidding of the Emergency establishment, and who were transferred as a form of punishment. After the restoral of democracy, on 9 July 1977 he was transferred back to the Delhi High Court.<br />
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In June 1977 Justice Sachar was appointed by the government to chair a committee that reviewed the Companies Act and the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act, submitting an encyclopaedic report on the subject in August 1978. Sachar's committee recommended a major overhaul of the corporate reporting system, and particularly of the approach to reporting on social impacts.In May 1984 Rajinder Sachar reviewed the Industrial Disputes Act, including the backlog of cases. His report was scathing. He said "A more horrendous and despairing situation can hardly be imagined... the load at present in the various Labour Courts and Industrial Tribunals is so disproportionate to what can conceivably be borne ... that the arrears can only go on increasing if the present state of affairs is not improved... It is harsh and unjust to both the employers and employees if the cases continue to remain undecided for years".<br />
In November 1984, Justice Sachar issued notice to the police on a writ petition filed by Public Union for Democratic Rights on the basis of evidence collected from 1984 Sikh riot victims, asking FIRs to be registered against leaders named in affidavits of victims. However, in the next hearing the case was removed from the Court of Mr. Sachar and brought before two other Judges, who impressed petitioners to withdraw their petition in the national interest, which they declined, then dismissed the petition.<br />
As an Indian lawyer and a former Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court Sachar sahib was a member of United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. He has served as a counsel for the People's Union for Civil Liberties. He chaired the Sachar Committee, constituted by the Government of India, which submitted a report on the social, economic and educational status of Muslims in India.<br />
Rajinder Sachar was one of the authors of a report issued on 22 April 1990 on behalf of the People's Union for Civil Liberties and others entitled "Report on Kashmir Situation". In January 1992 Sachar was one of the signatories to an appeal to all Punjabis asking them to ensure that the forthcoming elections were free and were seen to be free. They asked the people to ensure there was no violence, coercion or unfair practices that would prevent the people from electing the government of their choice. Rajinder Sachar was appointed to a high-level Advisory Committee chaired by Chief Justice Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi to review the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 and determine whether structural changes and amendments were needed. The committee prepared a draft amendment Bill incorporating its recommendations. These included changes to the membership of the National Human Rights Commission, changes to procedures to reduce delays in following up recommendations and a broadening of the commission's scope. The recommendations were submitted the Home Affairs ministry on 7 March 2000.<br />
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In April 2003, as counsel for the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Sachar argued before the Supreme Court of India that the Prevention of Terrorist Activities Act (POTA) should be quashed since it violated fundamental rights. On 24 November 2002 the police arrested twenty six people in the Dharmapuri district of Tamil Nadu, and on 10 January 2003 they were placed under POTA by the government on the grounds that they were members of the Radical Youth League of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist). On 26 August 2004, still being held without trial, the detainees began a hunger strike. Sachar led a team of human rights activists who visited them in jail on 15 September 2004 and persuaded them to end the hunger strike. POTA was repealed on 10 November 2004. However, all the POTA provisions were incorporated in the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. In October 2009 Sachar called for abolition of these laws.<br />
He said "Terrorism is there, I admit, but in the name of terror probe, many innocent people are taken into custody without registering a charge and are being detained for long period".<br />
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Rajinder Sachar, who had formerly been a United Nations special rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, headed a mission that investigated housing rights in Kenya for the Housing and Land Rights Committee of the Habitat International Coalition. In its report issued in March 2000 the mission found that the Kenyan government had failed to meet its international obligations regarding protection of its citizens' housing rights. The report described misallocation of public land, evictions and land-grabbing by corrupt politicians and bureaucrats.<br />
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In March 2005 Justice Rajinder Sachar was appointed to a committee to study the condition of the Muslim community in India and to prepare a comprehensive report on their social, economic and educational status. On 17 November 2006 he presented the report, entitled "Report on Social, Economic and Educational Status of the Muslim Community of India", to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The report showed the growing social and economic insecurity that had been imposed on Muslims since independence sixty years earlier. It found that the Muslim population, estimated at over 138 million in 2001, were under-represented in the civil service, police, military and in politics. Muslims were more likely to be poor, illiterate, unhealthy and to have trouble with the law than other Indians. Muslims were accused of being against the Indian state, of being terrorists, and politicians who tried to help them risked being accused of "appeasing" them.<br />
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The Sachar Committee recommendations aimed to promote inclusion of the diverse communities in India and their equal treatment. It emphasised initiatives that were general rather than specific to any one community. It was a landmark in the debate on the Muslim question in India. The speed of implementation would naturally depend on political factors including the extent of backlash from Hindutva groups. The Sachar Committee Report recommended setting up an institutional structure for an Equal Opportunity Commission.<br />
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In March 2003 Sachar was a signatory to a statement that condemned the US-led invasion of Iraq, calling it "unprovoked, unjustified and violative of international law and the United Nations Charter". Other signatories included Shanti Bhushan, Pavani Parameswara Rao, Rajeev Dhavan, Kapil Sibal and Prashant Bhushan.<br />
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He was a Judge who set an example. That after retirement Judges did not need to go into holes, and in fact were required to play a major role in keeping India on the Constitutional track. He spoke fearlessly, boldly, did not look for favours from the establishment regardless of who was in power, and as a result rubbed all the wrong way saying when we used to laugh, “well I am with the people and that’s all that matters.”<br />
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One does not really know where to begin, or for that matter end this tribute. Does one remember him for the Sachar report on the status of the Muslim community in India that created a storm as it was an honest and starkly revealing document; or for his stand on civil liberties for all; or for his criticism of established political parties; or for his love for the Indian Constitution that was always so visible; or for his gentle enquiries when he knew an individual was troubled; or for his willingness to walk the extra mile at any time of the day or night to help a person in need or for a cause; or for his consistency in advocating peace in South Asia; or for his fearlessness in taking on the communalists; or for his strong support for gender equality and justice.<br />
By the end Justice Sachar was visibly frail, a little bent with age, and clearly with many off days that he made sure none of us really knew about. This would not prevent him from attending meetings, signing statements and organising fact finding reports till his last days.<br />
One never heard him complain about his health. One never heard even a note of pessimism in his voice. One never heard him talk about his ailments or his problems. He was always there for everyone else, for India and her people.In these years one did, however, hear some pessimism in his voice.A ‘what will happen to our country’ tone, with worries that he would share occasionally. Excerpts from an article he wrote for The Citizen in December 2017:<br />
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Justice Sachar’s admiration for Ram Manohar Lohia spanned his life, never diminishing. But he never allowed that to come in his way of relationships with those who were perhaps, very critical of his mentor. As he said, “your view is yours, mine is mine.”And would then tell us stories about the differences between Jawaharlal Nehru and Lohia that never came in the way of mutual respect.<br />
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There are not many left now who say it like you did Justice Sachar, without mincing words, or looking over your shoulder, or bothering how the chattering classes would react. You looked for no favours, no positions, no awards. Respect Sir, Always!!!<br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">By Joshy Jacob,</span></b><br />
<b><i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Samajwadi Janaparishad National Executive Member and former National President.</span></i></b><br />
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My heartfelt condolences on the sad demise of Com Bhai Vaidya. <br />
He joined the socialist movement while a student. He joined the quit India struggle and participated the Goa liberation struggle and tortured and imprisoned. He got physical handicap by the police torture. <br />
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He was a close follower of Maharashtra veteran socialist leader S M Joshi. When S M Joshi decided to split from P.S.P. and merge with socialist party led by Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia to form the Samyukta Socialist Party (S.S.P.) he also stood with S.S.P. stream. <br />
When the nation was so moved by the student and youth agitation under the leadership of Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan Bhaji was the Mayor of the Pine municipal corporation. That time he organised a civic reception to Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan the first such reception in the nation. <br />
He was imprisoned during the emergency when democracy and liberty of the people were oppressed. <br />
Never he compromised with the rulers to be released on the dark days of India. <br />
His colleagues in the jail are including Deoras the then RSS chief apart from tall opposition leaders. He used to tell that at that time Devaras had agreed to open the RSS to people from all faith to make it a real nation building organisation. That would have been changing its communalist ethos and face. But the RSS had arrived at a compromise with the despot ruler Indira Gandhi and got out of the jail. Then all such promises were gone oblivion.<br />
After the emergency in 1977 general election at the centre the Indira Gandhi regime was thrown out by the common people. Then in Maharashtra assembly elections sharad pawar came out from Congress and the Janata Party made an alliance with his party under the banner of PDF. Pawar became the Chief Minister and the second rank Home Ministership was conferred to Bhaiji. <br />
While he was the Home Minister of he traveled not on state car but rode on his scooter. The present rulers barring no party can imagine such way of living. <br />
Once one man secretly came to meet him to gain some illegal thing with lot of money. He called the police and that person was got arrested. <br />
Later he was a staunch supporter of Chandra Shekhar in Janata party. He became national general secretary of that Janata party. He was the main organiser of the Bharat Yates of Chandra Shekhar. He walked down the entire distance from Kanyakumari to Delhi. He was the general secretary in charge of Kerala when there was dispute on the question of ministership in the 1987 Kerala L.D.F. government and the political drama followed. When Syed Shahabuddin got elected to Rajya Sabha from Bihar with the electoral manipulations by Chandra Shekhar aide and mining mafia Suraj Deo Singh, he was the gen. Sec.<br />
Later on he realised the limitations of all the established political parties. <br />
He began to organise the socialists out side such parties and inside them. Under the banner of S M Joshi memorial Forum held several meetings. <br />
While the process of formation of the alternative political party by various people's movements under the leadership of late Kishen Pattnayak was began. The Maharashtra socialists who wanted to form a party came together to form the Socialist Front. The socialist front had began dialogue with us. I also could participate their state conference in May 1993. <br />
Finally it was decided to come together to form a sampark Samiti and then formed the party organising committee.<br />
After discussions and dialogue and joint agitational programme it was decided to form the party Samajwadi Janaparishad on 1st January 1995 at the three day foundation conference held at Thane. <br />
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Jugal Kishore Raibir was elected as the president and Bhaiji was elected to the post of General Secretary. I was along with Dr. Swati, Adv. Nisha Shivurkar, Yogendra Yadav and Vishwanath Bagi were elected to the post of secretaries. Our top most leader was Kishen Pattnayak, but he was one of the Vice Presidents along with Prof. Keshav Rao Jadhav and Prof. Vinod Prasad Singh. Gajanan Khatu was the Treasurer. <br />
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He was a good General Secretary for the party. He used to travel the length and breadth of the nation in that task. He served for two terms and thereafter became the vice president of the Janaparishad. When he was gone out of completing the two term general secretary post I was asked to offer a vote of thanks to Bhaiji in the National Conference held at Varanasi. <br />
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Then he became inactive and undergone a heart surgery. <br />
He also share the traditional socialist views but courageous enough to take a position to discard the established political parties to experiment with the new political path propounded by Samajwadi Janaparishad. <br />
I got many chances to interact and associate closely with him. Meetings, travel, stay together, meeting at his home, discussing political ideologies and he attended my wedding held at my village koodalloor. He was so considerate and loved me. I too loved him very much despite different political perception. <br />
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The most memorable occasion with him was when we were arrested at the Enron Satyagraha under the banner of Samajwadi Janaparishad at Guhagar in Konkan we the eighty-two satyagrahis were presented to the Chiplun court Bahiji only spoke for and on behalf of us. We were punished for four or five days as we submitted that we were not prepared to remit the fine amount and prefer to jail as satyagrahis. We were put in the historical Yerawada jail in Pune. There the former home minister of Maharashtra. Bhai Vaidya and we other comrades 82year old comrade from Bihar and small kid around one year old and mother with their leader Ex MLA Shiv Pujan Singh including men and women were in the jail. Bhaji also every morning took bath in common space with we others and washed his cloths. <br />
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He was an idealist political leader, non corrupt and dedicated socialist. Above all he was a loving person for me. His contributions will be remembered and inspired the coming generations. His sad demise is a great loss. <br />
We all are expressing our deep condolences to Dr Abhijit, his Sister and other family members. <br />
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Joshy Jacob<br />
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Veteran socialist leader, former Maharashtra home minister and former mayor of Pune <b>Bhai Vaidya</b> (Bhalchandra Sadashiv Vaidya) died of old age and cancer-related complications at 7.30 pm on Monday April 2, 2018 at Poona hospital in Pune. He was 89. <br />
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He had been admitted to Poona hospital after he was diagnosed with cancer three weeks ago after complaining of breathlessness. Few months ago, he had undergone Angioplasty. He is survived by son Abhijit Vaidya, daughter Prachi Rawal, a grandson and a granddaughter. Vaidya’s body was cremated with full state honors on Tuesday April 3 evening at the Vaikunth crematorium in Navi Peth, where thousands of people from all areas were present. <br />
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Before performing the last rites, Vaidya’s mortal remains were kept at Sane Guruji Smarak, the headquarters of the Rashtra Seva Dal (RSD) where people from various walks of life paid tribute to him. An excellent orator and non-partisan leader, his death has caused a dent to the socialist movement. Political leaders across party lines paid their condolences.<br />
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Bhalchandra Sadashiv Vaidya (भालचंद्र सदाशिव वैद्य) was born on June 22, 1928 in Dapode village near Velhe in Pune district. He was fondly addressed as “Bhai Vaidya”. He did his post graduation in Social Science and Political Science. <br />
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Vaidya began his journey in activism and politics as a 14-year-old taking part in the freedom struggle. He had participated in the Quit India movement in 1942, the Goa freedom struggle in 1955, the united Maharashtra movement in 1957, the Kutch Satyagraha in 1968 and the JP Movement in 1974. <br />
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He was in jail for three weeks in 1957 while fighting for Sanyukta Maharashtra movement which fought for a Marathi-speaking state with Mumbai (then Bombay) as its capital. During the Emergency, he had served 19 months in jail. He had also participated in the 4,000-km padyatra from Delhi to Kanyakumari undertaken by Chandrashekhar in 1983. He actively participated in various movements including fight for farmers rights, charge-sheet against Antulay government, satyagrha, fight against inflation and many other social movements. He was jailed 25 times during various movements. Even at the age of 88, he was arrested after he took part in the agitation for “educational rights”.<br />
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He joined Rashtra Seva Dal in 1943, and later joined Congress Socialist party (C.S.P.) in 1946. He remained associated with the Socialist Party (S.P.), 1948–52, Praja Socialist Party (P.S.P.), 1952–55, Socialist Party (S.P.), 1955–64, Samyukta Socialist Party (S.S.P.), 1964–71 , Socialist Party(S.P.), 1971–77, Janata Party, 1977–88, Janata Dal, 1988–90, Janata Dal (Socialist), 1990–93, Socialist Front, 1993–95, Samajwadi Janaparishad, 1995–2011 and Socialist Party (India) 2011 till his death in 2018. He served as the National General Secretary of the Janata Party from 1986 to 1988, the National General Secretary of the Samajwadi Jana Parishad from 1995 to 1999, the National Vice-President of the Samajwadi Jana Parishad from 1999 to 2001 and the President of Socialist Party (India) from 2011 to 2016. He was the President of Rashtra Seva Dal in 2001.<br />
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His political career spanned 60 years and Bhai Vaidya was elected multiple times as the corporator for the Pune Municipal Corporation. He was a member of various committee in the civic body. He was member of Pune Municipal Corporation from 1967 to 1978 and was Pune city mayor from 1974 to 1975. He was the first president of the All- India Mayors’ Association. He was a vocal opponent of emergency even during his Mayorship, when he organized a rally of 20,000 people at Shaniwar Wada and got arrested. <br />
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In 1978 he was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from the Bhavani Peth Vidhan Sabha constituency on Janata Party (JNP) ticket. He was also Maharashtra minister of state for home in Sharad Pawar’s Progressive Democratic Front government between 1978-80. He is well known for many reformative decision during his Home Ministry, especially changing the police uniforms from half pants to full pants and refusing huge bribes from smugglers with his honest and uncompromising attitude.<br />
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He was the President of Bharat Yatra Trust, Delhi the President of S.M Joshi Medical Trust, Pune and president of the Ammunition Factory Workers' Union in Kirkee in Pune. He was also formed unions of unorganised workers in the state. <br />
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Mr. Vaidya was a close associate of S.M. Joshi, a well-known social worker and leader of Sanyukta Maharashtra Samiti. He was also an associate of former prime minister Chandra Shekhar.<br />
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He has authored books on socialism, the Mandal commission and educational reforms among others. He wrote various articles through newspapers.<br />
He is the recipient of several awards such as Goa Krantidin, Moulana Sadbhavna, Samata Bhushan and Mahatma Phule. He always remained a staunch socialist and progressive ideologue. <br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131151656916524712.post-21379762059737894662017-05-04T21:00:00.000+05:302017-05-04T21:00:19.752+05:30Political Resolution , 11th Biennial Samajwadi Jan Parishad National Conference held at Jateswar,Distt Alipurduar,Pashchim Banga <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The Bhartiya Janta Party has recently won a huge electoral victory in Uttar Pradesh, a big state, after single handedly forming the Central Government in 2014; on the other hand the leaders of this party in power have played a huge role in handing over the country’s politics to the capitalists. The irony is that despite changing and forming policies in the interests of the exploitative class, this party in power still claims to be nationalist. For Samajwadi Jan Parishad two interests are primary, the interests of the oppressed section and the interests of the country. Our party clearly believes that it is harmful in the interest of the nation to put the interests of the capitalists above all.<br />
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<b>Crony Capitalism and Agriculture </b><br />
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Even the foreign policy of the Central Government is in favor of the capitalists connected to the ruling class. The Prime Minister visits countries which are economically weaker than us and announces loans worth crores of dollars to them. These loans are given only to countries where the capitalists close to the PM are signing agreements to make huge projects. <br />
The big capitalists in the country owe 11 lakh crore rupees to public sector banks. The government is not taking any steps to recover this debt. When the last governor of the Reserve Bank of India demanded strong measures in this regard, his tenure in office was not extended. <br />
Self sufficiency in production of food grains and edible oils has been one of the biggest achievements of our country which is due to the farmers. But the capitalists are also behind attempts to end this self sufficiency. India has become the biggest importer of palm oil in the world. The ‘fortune’ brand company of oil run by Gautam Adani has been selling edible oil mixed with palm oil and also given the formula to other companies, which is the reason that the palm oil import is multiplying. The companies of all major capitalists in the country have started agriculture in mega farms of thousands of acres of land in African countries and govt. of India is signing agreements with these countries to import their products. When the prices of Arhar/toor Dal (pigeon pea pulse) were sky rocketing , Gautam Adani had hoarded cheap African imported Toor Dal (bought for Rs 40/50 per kilo) in his private port in Gujarat and took it out when the prices rose to 100 Rs per Kilo. The import duty on wheat import from abroad was first reduced to 10% from 25% and then abolished altogether. The finance minister has announced that private companies will be allowed to do contract farming if they want. <br />
The rising costs in agriculture have led to an increase of 26% in number of farmers committing suicide. The newly elected government has waived loans of small and marginal farmers which brings some relief. But at the same time, the top officers of Reserve Bank of India and State Bank of India have started giving statements against loan waivers. It makes it clear that the government doesn’t want to consider positively the demand to waive loans of all famers in the country. <br />
The Government has turned a blind eye towards implementing the Swaminathan Committee Recommendations on support prices for agricultural produce. The committee had recommended that the support price should be fixed at 50% profit on the cost of production. We should not forget that Narendra Modi had also promised to implement these recommendations in the campaign for the 2014 general elections. The SJP along with all the peasant movements in the country demands that these recommendations are not adequate and a parity should be made with prices and minimum wages in the Public Sector in deciding the price for agricultural produce. <br />
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<b>Unemployment </b><br />
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SJP leader and economist comrade Sunil had said about rural employment that ‘Today India’s villages have become de-industrialized and there is no occupation except agriculture and livestock farming. Villages and agriculture have become synonyms. On the other hand villages and industry have become opposites. Where there are villages there are no industries and where there are industries there are no villages. This condition is bad and is a legacy of colonial times.’ An open conspiracy has begun to finish the sectors providing the most number of employment after agriculture- handloom industry, cottage industries, small scale industries and forest dependent means of employment. The law which actually implemented the theory that decentralization gives employment to more people with less capital was made completely toothless in April 2015. When actually only 20 products had remained reserved for production solely by small scale industries under the manufacturing policy. In 1977 the Janta Party Government had reserved 807 products for production solely by small scale industries under the clear policy of not letting big industries produce products which could be produced at a small scale. This policy was against the conditions imposed by the World Bank and therefore the list was repeatedly shrunk after 1991. With the inflating balloon of foreign currency and the ‘reform’ of balance of payment came with the condition that quantitative restrictions cannot be placed on production. Due to this condition of the World Trade Organization, on 1st April 2000, 643 products were removed from the protected list. <br />
It is interesting to look at the list of the remaining 20 products which was completely cancelled to end protection of Small Scale Industries- Pickle, Bread, Mustard Oil, Wooden furniture, note-book and register, candle, incense sticks, fireworks, stainless still utensils, kitchen utensils of aluminum, glass bangles, iron furniture of all kind, rolling shutters, locks, washing soap and matchsticks. Big capital, aggressive marketing and technique which prefers machine over human labor will soon devour these small industries which provide more employment. <br />
The policy of Central and State level government purchase organizations to buy products from small and cottage industries only assures demand for them, now there are also initiatives to make this policy ineffective. Let’s take a look on the other side. There has been a history of changing legislation and rules to promote big capital. One of the prime examples of government changing rules and policies to favor its’ favorite industrial conglomerate is the then Congress Government’s decision to allow only the Ambanis to import raw material to make synthetic thread and disregarding the reserved list of fabric to be produced only by handloom s. It is notable that these policy decisions of the textile and industries ministry made Ambanis the biggest industrial group in the country, and before them cotton cloth used to be cheaper than cloth made of synthetic yarn. The permission to produce synthetic cloth produced on power looms has made lakhs of handloom weavers unemployed. Earlier it was only permitted to make ‘plain clothes’ on powerlooms and handlooms produced different colors and patterns. This law was made in 1985. Then twenty two types of cloth were reserved for handlooms under this law. The powerloom lobby kept the law stuck in courts till 1993 and when it was implemented in 1993 the number of protected fabrics was reduced to 11. According to a reliable study today 70% of the cloth which is sold claiming to be made on handlooms is actually powerloom or mill- produced. <br />
In India 30 lakh people have got employment in information technology sector while 2 crore people are connected to the handloom sector. 18th century French traveler Francois Pirad di Lavalle describes that people from as far as the southern end of Africa to China used to wear clothes woven on Indian looms. According to him just one port in Eastern India used to export more than 50 lakh yards of cloth annually. <br />
Along with implementing a policy to finish all employments related to traditional skills, art and handicraft the government is trying to fool the public by claiming to run schemes to promote skills through training. <br />
The government has answered in written in the parliament about Government jobs. Central Personnel Minister Jitendra Singh has stated in writing in the house that compared to 2013, in 2015 the number of direct recruitment in central government posts has reduced by 80%. The recruitment of SC, ST and OBC has reduced by 90%. In 2013, there were 1, 54,841 recruitments for the central government, which were reduced to 1,26,261. But in 2015 the number of recruitments is cut drastically from 1.25 lakhs to around 16 thousand. The number cannot be reduced so drastically without a policy change. In 2015, only 15,877 people were recruited for the Central Government. 74 ministries and departments have told the government that among ST, SC and OBCs 92,928 people were recruited in 2013; which goes down to 72,077 in 2014 and remains only 8,436 in 2015. Thus the overall decrease is 90%.<br />
Employment in railways will not increase between 2015-18. The manpower of railways will remain at 13, 31,433. The number was around 15 lakhs on 1st January 2014. Around 3 lakh jobs have been cut. Between 2006 and 2014 there were 90,649 recruitments. In the USA the number of central government employees is 668. In India this number is 138 per lakh and reducing further. <br />
The recent report of All India Council for Technical Education states that 60% of our engineers are ‘unemployable’. Every year 60 lakh engineers are prepared in India. Their educational fee has not reduced at all. If they are unemployable then it is the fault of engineering colleges. How have they prepared so bad engineers even after taking lakhs of rupees as fees. There is no comment on that. Now when there are no jobs in the market, they can start calling engineers ineligible so that the market cannot be blamed. If 60% of our engineers are useless, the institutions where they are produced should be shut down. <br />
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<b>Black money and corruption</b><br />
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What is more laughable than the claim of the government to finish black money while it benefits illegally the big capitalists. The truth is that a long time has passed since the news came of many Indians having secret accounts in the Geneva, Switzerland branch of HSBC bank. The names of many arms smugglers, drug dealers, and corrupt politicians from around the world were revealed. In this list there were names of many big industrialists and cinema stars of India. The government of India should have taken strict legal action against these account holders after the list was made public, but because these account holders were close to the government it announced an option for them to declare the amount publicly. <br />
Another list has also been made public of corrupt politicians and illegal traders, smugglers from around the world who have accounts in the country of Panama. After this news leaked, there were huge outcries in countries like Russia and Pakistan. In India despite names of the biggest industrialist and cinema stars etc the government has not taken any strict action against them. <br />
The government took the huge step of ‘demonetization’ with the claim of ending black money. The value of the notes which were put out of circulation was 86% of the total currency. This step led to an economic emergency in the country. More than 200 people died while standing in queues to get their notes changes. Despite this the people who had undeclared money in these notes were able to change or spend them successfully. The owners of these undeclared assets paid their employees and workers months’ worth of advance salary and bonuses, changed it to gold and dollars and through petrol pumps, and did not suffer any loss. The opposition parties did not enter the policy aspects and depth of the issue and evaded effective action against the issue. As a result, the government was successful in spreading the misconception among the common poor people that this step will not harm the general public much and will harm the rich. The truth I that the government has not declared an exact number of the notes returned. SJP demands that the government make public all the related facts and should make small currency notes available. <br />
When the Congress government was in power, the BJP benefitted from the movement to create a Lokpal. Despite this no effective legislation has been made for Lokpal. A big part of corruption is the undeclared contribution to political parties by capitalists without revealing the source of the money. In this year’s finance bill, it has been made legal to not announce the source of this money and for it to be unlimited in amount. It is noteworthy that currently there is a cap on the amount candidates can spend in elections but no limit to the expenditure of parties and therefore the details of expenditure are not provided seriously. During elections the ruling party spends crores of rupees to buy each leader of the opposition party, therefore it has no interest in hampering the sources of illegal undeclared income, but is actually making laws to make it easier to furnish such funds. <br />
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In the above paragraph the contexts of acquiring undeclared funds for contesting elections and their uses have been mentioned. Samajwadi Jan Parishad is in favor of adoption proportional representation in the electoral process. <br />
In India in each level of state/governance(like Centre, State, District Council, Block Council and Panchayat) the mode of elections is FPTP (First past the post- the one who gets the most number of votes wins). The futuristic and popular mode of elections is ‘proportional representation’ which is already in use in 80 countries. The FPTP method is driving and increasing many weaknesses and irregularities in India’s governance and democracy. It is producing very dangerous situations in policymaking and change. Some facts – <br />
1. The Modi Government has got a majority in the parliament with the support of only 30% of the people. Around 60% population which is against it, has become powerless and with very little representation in the house. New developing ideologies and organizations with small numbers find it impossible to reach the house and even keep their identities intact.<br />
2. In each state government of the country also, one small party has reached majority in this way with a small percentage of the votes. They also take many wrong and undemocratic decisions like the central government. All these minority governments make long lasting economic and administrative policies and programs with social- religious connotations. They promote extremist tendencies which often are deeply damaging to the country and society. <br />
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The party plans to organize seminars and publish literature on this issue. <br />
The people who promote narrow and divisive views in Indian society, spread the ideas of the caste system, strengthen the religious fiefdoms, spread communalism to promote politics of vested interests; their politics is powerful today. If the politics of the weak and poor section which Samajwadi Jan Parishad represents gets powerful; these sections will lose their power and assets. We have to take this issue to the people. The interests of the oppressed and the interests of the country are connected and mutual. We will fight the politics of the rich classes with this kind of politics. We have to establish this objective firmly in our minds. Just like the Capitalist and Manuwadi powers have firmly established the aim of ‘Hindu Nation’ in their minds, which will definitely lead to the destruction of the country. This convention pledges to strengthen the politics of the oppressed sections to defeat the current anti-national politics. <br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131151656916524712.post-90596025006133745512017-05-01T20:21:00.000+05:302017-05-04T20:56:44.179+05:30Kamal Banerjee, Aflatoon Elected as National President and General Secretary of Samajwadi Jan Parishad<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="color: #fff2cc;">Jateswar (Alipurduar district, West Bengal, India), May 1, 2017:</span></b> Kamal Krishna Banerjee (West Bengal) and Aflatoon (Uttar Pradesh) were on Monday, 1st May unanimously elected as the National President and National General Secretary respectively of the Samajawadi Janaparishad (S.J.), the Socialist political party in India. The party also elected other members of its National Executive on the concluding day of its 11th biennial national conference, which held in Jateswar (West Bengal) from April 29 to May 1, 2017.<br />
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The National Executive elected , Nisha Shivurkar, Lingaraj Azad (Odisha) and Ajay Khare (Madhya Pradesh) as National vice presidents, Dr. Chandra Bhushan Chaudhari as treasurer, Ranjit Rai as National organizing secretary and Fag Ram as National secretary of the party.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Joshy Jacob, </b>National President of the Samajwadi Jan Parishad from 2013 to 2017</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><i>Samajwadi Jan Parishad is a party for the alternative politics and upholds the new socialist ideology. But it stands for a new political culture too. I have served the party as national President for the last time two terms consecutively. No person can hold more than two terms of any post consecutively in the party according to the party constitution.</i><i>We elected new president, general secretary and other office bearers with a new national executive committee in our national conference.</i></span></blockquote>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131151656916524712.post-81090088825908497772017-03-06T20:49:00.000+05:302017-03-16T17:20:14.554+05:30Socialist leader K.P. Janardhanan Namboodiri passes away<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">K.P. Janardhanan Namboodiri<br />
(1930 — 2017)<br />
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<b>Cherpulassery (Palakkad, Kerala): </b>Samajwadi Janparishad State vice president and Freedom fighter K.P. Janardhanan Namboodiri passed away on Saturday March 04, 2017. He was 87. <br />
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Janardhanan Namboodiri breathed his last at P.K. Das Hospital at Vaniamkulam in Palakkad at around 6 PM. The funeral was held at 2 PM on Monday on his house premises.<br />
He is survived by his wife Savitry Antharjanam and children Hari Narayanan Jaya Narayanan and Babu Narayanan. <br />
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Samajwadi Janaparishad National President Joshy Jacob, Plachimada anti-Coca Cola stir leader Vilayodi Venugopal, Samajwadi Janaparishad State President Vinod Payyada and Lohia Vichara Vedi district convener Vidhyadharan K were among those present at the funeral.<br />
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Socialist leaders Dr. Swaty, Mahesh Vikram and Lohia Vichara Vedi general secretary E.K. Sreenivasan, among others, condoled Janardhanan Namboodiri’s death.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #ffd966;">Condolence message by Joshy Jacob, Samajwadi Janaparishad National President, on the passing away of Janardhanan Namboodiri.</span></b><br />
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Below, please find the original message in Malayalam language:<br />
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സമാജവാദി ജനപരിഷത്തിന്റെ സംസ്ഥാന ഉപാദ്ധ്യക്ഷൻ കെ. എസ് ജനാർദ്ദനൻ നമ്പൂതിരി 2017 മാർച്ച് നാലാം തീയതി ശനിയാഴ്ച വൈകിട്ട് അന്തരിച്ചു. സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യ സമരത്തിന്റെ ഭാഗമായി ഹിന്ദി പ്രചാരകനായി പൊതുരംഗത്തേക്ക് കടന്നു വന്ന അദ്ദേഹം പിന്നീട് ഹിന്ദി അദ്ധ്യാപകനായിരുന്നു. അദ്ദേഹം ഡോ. രാംമനോഹർ ലോഹിയയുടെ നേതൃത്വത്തിലുള്ള സോഷ്യലിസ്റ്റ് പാര്ട്ടിയിൽ അദ്ദേഹം ഉറച്ചു നിന്നു. സോഷ്യലിസ്റ്റ് പ്രസ്ഥാനത്തിലും സോഷ്യലിസ്റ്റ് ആശയത്തിലും പരമ്പരാഗത സോഷ്യലിസ്റ്റുകളെ അലോസരപ്പെടുത്തിയ ജാതിയുടെയും ചെറുകിട യന്ത്രത്തിന്റെയും ഉൾപ്പെടെയുള്ള മൌലിക മാറ്റം ഉണ്ടാക്കിയ ലോഹിയയുടെ ആശയാദർശങ്ങളിൽ അവസാനം ശ്വാസം വരെ അദ്ദേഹം ഉറച്ചു നിന്നു.<br />
ലോഹിയ വിചാര വേദിയുടെ മുതിർന്ന നേതാക്കളിൽ ഒരാളായിരുന്ന അദ്ദേഹം സമാജവാദി ജനപരിഷത്തിന്റെ രൂപീകരണ പ്രക്രിയയിലും സജീവമായി പങ്കാളിയായി. ലോഹിയ വിചാര വേദിയിലെ മുതിന്നവരിൽ നിന്നും പി.വി. കുര്യൻ, കെ രമേശ്, സി.ജെ. അബ്രാഹം, ജോസ് സഖറിയാസ്, ജനാർദ്ദനൻ നമ്പൂതിരി, എൻ. ശ്രീനിവാസൻ, പി.കെ. ഗോപാലൻ മാഷ് , ഉമ്മർ ഷാ തുടങ്ങിയ വളരെ ചുരുങ്ങിയ ആളുകൾ മാത്രമാണ് വ്യവസ്ഥാപിത രാഷ്ട്രീയത്തിന് പുറത്തുള്ള പുതിയ ചുവട് വയ്പായി ആരംഭിച്ച സമാജവാദി ജനപരിഷത്തിന്റെ രൂപീകരണ പ്രക്രിയയിൽ ഭാഗഭാഗിത്തം വഹിക്കുവാൻ തയ്യാറായത്. മുംബൈയിൽ ഠാണെയിൽ വച്ചു നടന്ന പാർട്ടിയുടെ സ്ഥാപന സമ്മേളനത്തിലും അദ്ദേഹം പങ്കെടുത്തു.<br />
ജനപരിഷത്തിന്റെ ആദ്യ സംസ്ഥാന സമിതിയിൽ ജനാർദ്ദനൻജി ഉപാദ്ധ്യക്ഷൻ ആയി തെരഞ്ഞെടുക്കപ്പെട്ടു. പിന്നീട് സെക്രട്ടറി, ഖജാൻജി തുടങ്ങിയ പദവികളും അദ്ദേഹം വഹിച്ചു.<br />
ഖാദി വസ്ത്രങ്ങൾ മാത്രം ധരിക്കുകയും മാതൃഭാഷയായ മലയാളത്തിൽ അല്ലാതെ ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് ഭാഷയിൽ നൽകുന്ന കല്യാണക്കുറികളുടെ ക്ഷണം നിരസിച്ച് വിവാഹച്ചടങ്ങുകളിൽ പങ്കെടുക്കരുതെന്നും അദ്ദേഹം വാദിച്ചിരുന്നു. ജനകീയ ഭാഷയുടെ കാര്യത്തിലും പ്ലാച്ചിമട സമരത്തിലും അദ്ദേഹം ആദ്യ കാലം മുതൽ ഉറച്ചു നിന്നു. ഒടുവിൽ കഴിഞ്ഞ ജനുവരി 21, 22, 23 തിയതികളിൽ കോട്ടയത്ത് വച്ച് ചേർന്ന ദേശീയ കർഷക ഏകോപന സമിതി യോഗത്തിനും അദ്ദേഹം പിന്തുണ നൽകി. ശാരീരികമായി വളരെ ബുദ്ധിമുട്ടിലായിട്ടും നിരന്തരം ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട് വിവരങ്ങൾ അദ്ദേഹം അന്വേഷിച്ച് വന്നിരുന്നു.<br />
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അദ്ദേഹത്തിന്റെ ദേഹവിയോഗം തീരാനഷ്ടമാണ്. സമാജവാദി ജനപരിഷത്തിന്റെ അഗാധമായ ദുഃഖം രേഖപ്പെടുത്തുന്നു.<br />
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</span> <b><span style="color: #ffd966;">The following is the statement issued by the Vinod Payyada, President of SJP Kerala State Unit on the Death of K.P. Janardhanan Namboodiri on March 5, 2017:- </span></b><br />
Janardhanan Namboodiri was one among the few elder socialist in kerala who always stood with Samajavadi Janaparishad from the beginning. He was a Hindi pracharak and thus he was honoured and always stood for mother tongue. Many times we met for our State committee in his house, his wife and children are sympathizers of the party and two weeks before he called me for discussing membership campaign of the party in Palakkad district. He was very good reader and he worked in front of plachimada struggle and took part in many environmental agitations.And above all he traversed the journey from human being to being human.Samajawadi Janaparishad state committee here expresses its deep condolence in the sad demise of our leader. <br />
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