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Subject: Funds from Kerala  handed over to Junaid Family
From:    "Communist Party of India (Marxist)" <cc at cpim.org>
Date:    Wed, August 23, 2017 2:53 pm
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August 23, 2017

Press Release


At a solemn and moving solidarity meeting at Junaid's home in the village
of Khatawali, a CPI(M) delegation with Polit Bureau Member Com. Brinda
Karat, Surinder Malik (Haryana State Secretary) and others handed over two
cheque of five Lakhs each to Junaid's parents, Jalaluddin and Saira on
behalf of the Kerala State Committee of the CPI(M). This followed the
meeting of the grieving parents with Kerala Chief Minister Com. Pinarayi
Vijayan last month when he was visiting Delhi. At that time Saira,
Junaid's mother had said she wanted to start a school for girls and name
it after Junaid.

Today reiterating the commitment of the Party to confront and defeat the
dark forces that are responsible for mob lynchings like Junaid's Brinda
Karat said the funds are only a token of the strong feeling of solidarity
that we have come here to express in this time of grief and distress. She
strongly criticized the subversion of justice in the case as four of the
six arrested have already been released on bail. Surinder Malik said
Haryana Party will always be with you and will continue its multifaceted
struggles against the BJP Government who he held responsible for the
criminal killing of Junaid.

The village joined all family members of Junaid in the solemn function.






(Hari Singh Kang)
For Central Committee Office