Our Vijayawada Comrades,led by  KSC Bose ,Circle Secretary, P Asokababu, CHQ Vice President, Madhava Rao, District Secretary have met Shri. Kesineni Sreenivas, MP, Vijayawada on 25th January, 2020 and brought to his notice the burning issue , pension revision and sought his help to resolve. The delegation handed over him a letter to this effect and copy of memorandum being submitted to the Prime Minister. Shri.K Sreenivas promised the delegation that he will take up the issue with the government. 

Kannur SSA Comrades, K Kunhiraman, District Secretary, K Rajan, Asst Circle Secretary, K Santhakumar, District Organising Secretary C M suresh , Branch Secretary P gangadharan and Pratheesan have met Kannur Loka Sabha MP Shri.K Sudhakaran and apprised him of the issue of pension revision and sought his help. They handed over a letter in this regard and also a copy of the memorandum being submitted to the Prime Minister. Shri.K Sudhakaran MP had a patient hearing and assured the delegation of his earnest intervention for settlement of the issue.

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The delegation included Coms. V S Vemburaj, Circle Vice President, D.Gopalan, District Secretary, Tiruneveli, S Muthusamy, District President, M Kanakamani, Asst District Secretary and P Sivajnanam, Asst District Secretary, Villupuram. The MP promised the delegation all the help possible for early settlement of the issue.

In almost all global social index India is faring badly. Now, in democracy index also India has dropped 10 ranks in the 2019 global index. India’s overall score fell from 7.23 to 6.9 on a scale of 0-10 and it is the lowest since the index began in 2006. The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy  index report was released on 22nd January, 2020.

The report titled ” A year of democartic setbacks and popular protests” mentions the revocation of Jammu & Kashmir special status, NRC and the Citizenship Amendment Act. The Index also categorises India under “Flawed Democracies” along with USA, countries that hold free and fair elections but have significant weaknesses in aspects of democracy, such as problems in governance, an underdeveloped political culture and low level of political participation.

According to the report, there are only 22 “full democracies” as compared to 54 authoritarian regimes. 165 countries and two territories were analysed and in the Asia, Australia region, India ranks eighth behind Taiwan and Timor-Leste.

(Courtesy:The Hindu)

Com.Pijush Chakraborty, Circle Secretary inaugurated Habra Branch Conference under Kolkata District at Barasat on 22nd January, 2020. Com.Sisir Dutta, President presided. Com.A K Nandan, District Secretary also addressed.

Coms. Sisir Dutta, Nirmal Kumar Biswas and Gopal Seal were elected President, Secretary and Treasurer, respectively.

A 10 member delegation of Bharuch District Branch led by Coms.N S Vasava, District Secrertary,J B Mangnadia, District President, D B vasava, Treasurer and V H Haldaria on 23-01-2020  had a nice meeting with Bharuch Loka Sabha MP Shri. Mansukhbhai Vasava and had a discussion on pension revision of BSNL absorbed retirees. A copy of the memorandum being submitted to the Prime Minister was also given to him. The MP responded very positively and assured necessary action on the issue.

Shri. Adoor Prakash, Loka Sabha MP, Attingal received AIBDPA, Thiruvananthapuram delegation cordially and discussed the issue of pension revision . He was given a copy of the memorandum being submitted to the Prime Minister and the MP took it seriously and assured necessary action on his part. The delegation was led by Com.R Muraleedharan Nair, AGS along with Coms.C Ramachandran, District Secretary and N Vikraman Nair, District President.