[Marxistindia] Joint Call of Left Parties

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The Left Parties- Communist Party of India(Marxist), Communist Party of
India, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)-Liberation, All India
Forward Bloc, Revolutionary Socialist Party- have issued the following joint
statement:

 

 

Joint Call of Left Parties:

 

March 23: Martyrdom Day

Oppose CAA/NPR/NRC

For A Modern, Inclusive India

 

 

The Left parties have decided to observe March 23, 2020 marking the
anniversary of the martyrdom of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev to
consolidate opposition to the CAA/NPR/NRC process and to project the vision
of a modern, inclusive India that Bhagat Singh wrote about, worked for and
sacrificed his life.

 

The police under the BJP is being used to advance its communal polarization
and mount attacks on the democratic rights of the people to organize
peaceful protests. The brazen attacks at Jamia Millia University, Aligarh
Muslim University followed by the attack by masked goons under police
protection at JNU, continued with vicious attacks in Uttar Pradesh, other
BJP ruled states and in Delhi. The recent communal violence that rocked the
National Capital has left at least 53 (latest official count) dead with the
numbers likely to increase. Hundreds have been injured. Crores of rupees of
property has been looted. Worst, the victims of this violence are now being
charged by the police. The Delhi police under the Union Home Ministry played
the role of a by-stander, at best, and, at times, abetting the crimes. Left
Parties strongly condemn this and demand a time bound judicial enquiry into
this violence.  

 

Left Parties express strong opposition to the recent budget proposals. This
budget, while providing greater relief and concessions to the rich and the
corporates, mounts severe attacks on people's livelihood. The budget
proposes to sell away our national assets through largescale privatization
of the public sector. This budget severely undermines our economic
foundations and at the same time imposes unprecedented burdens on the people
increasing their misery exponentially.

 

All our units will jointly work out programmes in the state capitals and at
district headquarters. Marches from different parts shall be organised to
culminate at a central venue where political leaders, cultural personalities
and activists, intellectuals and people's movements shall hold a public
meeting and a cultural programme. An oath on the enclosed pledge shall be
taken at the end of the function. 

 

 

 

(Sitaram Yechury)       (D. Raja)                        (Dipankar
Bhattacharya)

General Secretary       General Secretary           General Secretary

CPI(M)                       CPI
CPI(ML)-Liberation

 

 

 

(Debabrata Biswas)                                                (Manoj
Bhattacharya)

General Secretary                                               General
Secretary

AIFB                                                                   RSP


 

 

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Annexure-I

 

Pledge

 

 

We pledge to safeguard the Indian Constitution and to strive to ensure that
our political freedom is also converted into the economic freedom of every
Indian, the vision of Bhagat Singh and his comrades in arms of creating a
modern, inclusive India.

 

We pledge on the preamble of our Constitution

 

We, the People of India, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a
Sovereign, Socialist Secular Democratic Republic and to secure to all its
citizens 

Justice, social, economic and political 

Liberty of thought, expression, belief, faith and to promote among them all 

Fraternity assuring the dignity of the individual and unity and integrity of
the nation

IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, DO
HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION.

 

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