What’s behind the BJP’s victory in the 2023 assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan? Beyond numbers, lies a complicated web of political and organisational factors.
Arrest of tribal people at Silger exposed how Congress-led Chhattisgarh government unapologetically follows the BJP’s police-state template
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Singh Baghel’s father Nand Kumar Baghel’s arrest exposed Congress’s similarity with the BJP when it comes to gagging voices.
The Congress party’s factional feuds, especially in Punjab between Captain Amarinder Singh and Navjot Singh Sidhu, are turning catastrophic for the party.
Corporates in India are celebrating World Environment Day with much fanfare while they are destroying the environment by encroaching on water, forests and land.
The Chhattisgarh Maoist attack has again placed the ongoing civil war in central and eastern India’s tribal belt at the front row of public discourse. The question is why the government is avoiding peace with the ultras?
The media showed Constable Sunaina Patel fighting Maoists in Bastar despite being eight-month-pregnant but none asked why she didn’t get maternity leave.
With the passage of the UAPA Amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha, the Modi regime is all set to curtail the leftover democratic rights of the people.
As millions suffer due to heat wave and children are struggling to breath amid pollution, the Modi regime donated 170,000 hectares of forest to Adani group.
The Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Telangana and Rajasthan assembly election results are out and in all these states, the BJP appears to be a big loser in terms of the number of seats it has won. While the Congress secured a whopping majority by winning 68 out of 90 seats in the BJP-ruled Chhattisgarh, the … Read more
Since the time Narendra Modi won a landslide majority in the 16th Lok Sabha election and formed a government in May 2014, the common wailing of the parliamentary opposition was that secularism, as defined by the Indian Constitution, is under threat. Neither Narendra Modi nor the RSS-led Hindutva fascist camp disappointed the opponents and their … Read more
Participating in the campaign trail of Chhattisgarh assembly election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi trained his guns at ‘Urban Naxals’, accusing them of living ‘luxurious lives’, riding luxury cars and instigating violence in Bastar. ‘Urban Naxal’ is a term used to demonise dissent by the RSS-led Hindutva fascists. Mr Modi was speaking at Jagdalpur, 450 km … Read more
A nationwide outrage is taking place over the arrest of five civil rights activists in Maharashtra and Delhi, to combat which the Pune Police had to invent the dubious theory of an assassination plot prepared by these people in connivance with the Maoists to kill Narendra Modi. Though the loosely plotted story is busted by … Read more
The AIADMK is paying the price of its pro-Hindutva and pro-Hindi stance more than ever since it carried out the brutal massacre of 13 protesters in Thoothukudi, shot by the Tamil Nadu Police’s snipers, trained by the Zionist Israeli regime. While the police and the district collector, obeying the order of the AIADMK’s ruling E. … Read more
The Soil of Chhattisgarh is crimsoned again in the blood of the tribal people resisting the aggression of the corporate houses on their land, water and forests. According to reports, 10 (12, according to unofficial estimate) hapless tribal people, four men and six women, were killed in a fake encounter at Pujari Kanker of Bijapur … Read more
Since the Sukma encounter of 24 April, in which 25 CRPF men were killed by the Maoist guerrillas, the Modi government has plunged into a drive to prove that its forces in the jungles of Chhattisgarh are gunning down the outlawed CPI (Maoist) activists successfully. One such claim surfaced a few days ago when the … Read more
After the Maoist attack on 24 April took the lives of 24 CRPF men in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh, the corporate media is continuously firing salvo on the Maoists for using violence against the men in uniform, who are called the son of the poor, and for “misguiding” the poor and “stalling the development work” … Read more
The session court of Gadchiroli, Maharashtra has convicted Prof. Dr G.N. Saibaba, JNU student Hem Mishra, former freelance journalist Prashant Rahi, Mahesh Tirki, Vijay Tirki, and Pandu Narote of being “Maoists” and sentenced all to life imprisonment, except Vijay Tirki, who was awarded a 10-year jail term. The case in which these six were convicted … Read more
(This article was first published in February 2016 in the previous version of People’s Review. Due to an incident of hacking the old website was pulled down and we could only restore the old articles in this section) While the entire gamut of the media had been focused on the assault of the fascist saffron block … Read more