Marxistindia Digest, Vol 1134, Issue 1

[Anil Chandran]

marxistindia
news digest from cpi(m)
Today's Topics:

   1. Sitaram Yechury writes to PM on Kashmir (news from the cpi(m))
   2. Court issues notice to Delhi Police on Complaint Against
      Anurag Thakur (news from the cpi(m))

Message: 1
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 15:48:46 +0530
February 5, 2020

Press Release

CPI(M) General Secretary, Sitaram Yechury, has addressed a letter to 
the Prime Minister today calling for the release of the detained 
persons in Kashmir, lifting of the  clampdown on communications, 
restoration of the democratic process and honouring of the assurances 
made to the people at the time of the accession of the state to the 
Indian Union.

The full text of the letter is being released herewith.


(Hari Singh Kang)
For Central Committee Office

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Dear Pradhan Mantri ji,

It is now six months since the severe restrictions had been clamped in 
Jammu & Kashmir following the abrupt abrogation of Article 370 & 35A 
of the Indian Constitution through a resolution adopted by the 
Parliament.

Thousands have been detained from the night of the 4th-5th of August 
2019. Many of them are lodged in jails in J&K and outside, detained in 
their residences under virtual house arrest or in other different 
locations. These include such people who have served as Union Cabinet 
ministers in the past, people like Shri Farooq Abdullah, Ms. Mehbooba 
Mufti & Shri Omar Abdullah (all three former Chief Ministers), Shri   
Mohd. Yusuf Tarigami, a four time elected MLA to the now defunct 
assembly of the state of Jammu & Kashmir, and many others.

I am writing to you to demand that the detained persons be released 
and granted their liberty and freedoms as guaranteed by the Indian 
Constitution. The Communications clampdown must be lifted and the 
democratic processes  restored immediately. These have severely 
impacted the economy of the region imposing unprecedented misery on 
the people.

The assurances made to the people at the time of the accession of the 
state to the Indian Union must be honoured.

I hope you will consider the matter with all the seriousness that it warrants.


Yours sincerely

(Sitaram Yechury)


Shri Narendra Modi
Prime Minister

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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 16:27:25 +0530

February 5, 2020

Press Release

Court issues notice to Delhi Police on Complaint against Anurag Thakur

While hearing a plea by Brinda Karat, Member of the Polit Bureau of 
the CPI(M) and K.M.Tewari (Secy Delhi State Committee) the Additional 
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vishal Pahuja has directed the DCP, New 
Delhi to submit a report on the non-filing of FIRs against BJP leaders 
Shri Anurag Thakur and Shri Parvesh Verma for delivering hate speeches 
in Delhi recently, during the campaign for the assembly elections.

The Court gave this direction after Karat had approached the court 
after her written complaints to the Commissioner of Police and the 
SHO, Parliament Street failed to elicit any response.  She and 
K.M.Tewari  had written to the Commissioner on January 29 and 
subsequently on 31, while the letter to the SHO Parliament Street was 
sent on February 2.

In their complaint they had sought filing of FIRs under Sec. 153A/ 
153B/ 295A/ 298/ 504/ 505/ 506 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 among 
others against Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Verma.

The said Members of Parliament had sought to incite people as a result 
of which three incidents of firing took place at two different protest 
sites in Delhi.

The Court has asked the DCP to file his reply by February 11, 2020.
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