Topic: CPI

All the activists and academics arrested in the Bhima Koregaon case should be released immediately, Communist Party of India demanded on Thursday in the light of the latest revelations that showed that the case was based on planted and manipulated documents.

Indian authorities must immediately release journalist Mandeep Punia and refrain from detaining and investigating members of the press covering protests, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Monday.

The Congress will join hands with the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), the CPI, CPI(M), CPI(ML) and the Anchalik Gana Morcha in forthcoming Assam assembly polls.

The ruling CPIM-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) is ahead of the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) in corporations, grama panchayats and district panchayats , while the UDF is ahead in more municipalities in the polls to local bodies in Kerala.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), Revolutionary Socialist Party, and All India Forward Bloc have called upon all their units all across the country to extend full support and solidarity to the call given by the All India Kisan Sangarsh Coordination Committee for countrywide protests on 25 September, demanding the withdrawal of the "antifarmer legislations."

Congress Party Treasurer and MP Ahmed Patel, CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury, DMK leader & MP Kanimozhi, RJD leader and MP Manoj Jha, and CPI General Secretary D Raja met the President of India Ram Nath Kovin on Thursday and handed over a memorandum raising questions about the role of the police during the northeast Delhi riots, besides expressing their lack of confidence in the probe of the incident.