PRAGOTI

The Left parties held a massive rally against price rise in the capital on 12th March 2010. This rally was attended by over 1 lakh people from various parts of the country. The rally gave a call for intensifying struggles against the UPA Government's anti-people policies. The mainstream media as usual decided to give as little coverage as possible to the rally. We present here two videos of the rally from various news channels. We will soon provide more videos/reports on the rally.

I really enjoyed the speech by Brinda Karat, Rajya Sabha member from the CPI(M) on the women's reservation bill. On a groundbreaking day where other legislators also spoke very well on the issue (albeit some Congress' legislators were more keen on fawning praise on the UPA's lynchpins - the PM and Sonia Gandhi). But Brinda Karat's evocative gratitude to the struggles by grassroots women's organisations was very apt. Embedded below is her speech in the Rajya Sabha (courtesy - Rajya Sabha TV). Also attached is the transcript of her speech in pdf format. 

 A blog post on the belied expectations on Women's Day today.

That food prices have broken the ceiling and have gone beyond control, is a tragedy that is affecting many sections of the Indian population today. Yet the government has only compounded the misery by increasing fuel prices as well. It is imperative that the government must roll back the hiked fuel prices and must work on a war-footing to arrest galloping inflation. A post on the issue.