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The Guild reiterates that data protection and privacy are vital objectives, but they must be balanced with the constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech and the public’s right to know.

What was expected to be a very close fought election turned out to be a massive victory for the NDA in Bihar. To what extent did the 65 lakhs deletions from the voters list and other additions to it of those coming of voting age or who were otherwise being included, affect the final results? Was the ECI complicit in this thereby expressing its bias towards the BJP-led Central government and to the NDA in Bihar? There have been sound reasons for suspecting such a bias, which if true, gravely undermines a central pillar of even bourgeois democracy, namely the integrity of the electoral process itself. In the recent past, Rahul Gandhi of the Congress provided evidence-based public exposures of deficiencies and manipulations of the electoral rolls in previous elections in Maharashtra, Karnataka and then in Haryana. This clearly required that the ECI make itself publicly accountable to explaining these discrepancies and otherwise investigate to identify the circumstances in which such frauds took place. As an independent body, it is the ECI’s responsibility to do so and certainly not that of the Central or state governments.

The Communist Party of India strongly condemns the incident of “detention by locals” of 44 workers from Jammu and Kashmir at Hijuguri near the New Tinsukia Railway Station in Assam. Despite the Assam Police themselves confirming that all the workers possessed valid identity documents, they were rounded up merely on the basis of suspicion and appearance. Such unlawful actions constitute a serious violation of the Constitutional rights of the people of J&K

The DDA decision preventing the Organisers of the Phool Walon ki Sair, from using the Aam ka Bagh, opposite the Hauz e Shamsi for organizing the Annual Mela, as part of the events traditionally associated with the festival of inclusivity, needs to be opposed and condemned in the strongest terms.

on October 30 [2025], hours prior to his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the U.S. President Donald Trump escalated nuclear dangers even further by posting on social media, “Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War [the Pentagon] to start testing our nuclear weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately.” This announcement signals a reversal of decades of United States nuclear policy.