South Asia Citizens Web

We, the undersigned, express our deep concern regarding the continuous arrests of Indian and Pakistani fishermen and confiscation of their boats by each country of the other. The poor, innocent fishermen go to sea to catch fish and in the deep sea it becomes virtually impossible for them to recognise where their countries waters end and other’s start.

The Planning Commission’s poverty straightjacket is but one of a series of obstacles faced by “aspirants” to the BPL status.

Police arrested a prominent trade union leader in Kabirwala on 29
September without any FIR, transferred him from one police station to
other. Kabirwala police arrested Muhammad Hussain Bhatti, President
Nestle Employees Union without any charge. The workers protested
against the arrest and blocked the road. When police assured to
present Bhatti at court next morning, these workers finished their
protest. Late night the police raided at the residences of workers
arrested many of them in Khanewal and Kabirwala on the charge of
protest and road blocking.

the Planning Commission filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court claiming that the “poverty line of Rs 25 and Rs 32 (rural and urban areas respectively) ensures the adequacy of private expenditure on food, health and education”. The right to food campaign challenges you and all the members of the Planning Commission to live on Rs 25 / Rs 32, a day till such time that you are able to explain to the public in simple words the basis of the statement that this amount is normatively “adequate”. If it cannot be explained then the affidavit should be withdrawn or else you should resign.

On September 28, 1991, Shankar Guha Niyogi put aside his copy of Lenin on Trade Unions and Revolutions, and fell asleep under a mosquito net in his room on the ground floor of an apartment in the Bhilai industrial township. In the early hours of the morning, a young man rode up to the house, looked in through the bedroom’s well-lit window and shot him dead.