South Asia Citizens Web

The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly protests against any move to scrap or weaken the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). It is reported in the press that the Rajasthan Chief Minister has made a proposal to extinguish the legal guarantee under the Act and convert it into a scheme.

KARACHI, July 5: Speakers at a discussion programme on Saturday to mark the 5th July Military Takeover by General Ziaul Haq in 1977, expressed concern over the efforts from various quarters to undermine the current democratic system and resolved that in case of any misadventure the people should stand up and severely oppose it. They asked all the political parties and the civil society to sign a new charter for democracy to close the door of any future military takeover in Pakistan.

This article seeks to shed light upon the question of what BBS represents in the present-day Sri Lankan political landscape. In so doing, it is deemed worthwhile to delve into BBS’s ideological centrepoints and their historical antecedents. The present article, however, is intended at contributing to (and questioning) existing debates and dominant readings of BBS, as an extremist agitator, an unprecedented religious nationalist current, and an instigator of communal violence.

We, as individuals, people’s organisations, citizens groups, trade unions and mass movements came together on June 26, 2014 at Indian Social Institute, New Delhi to reiterate our deep conviction about the importance of preserving and nurturing spaces for social dissent and the freedoms of association, assembly and expression as the essential hallmarks of a democratic society.

Press Statement by IFJ and a Letter by CPJ to the Prime Minister of Pakistan