After labourers took over landlords' lands

For BMC I

Apropos of the ongoing agitation in Mansa regarding the Panchayati land acquisition, a series of protests were organised in Sangrur, Barnala, Mansa, Ludhiana, Chandigarh under the banner of CPI (ML) Liberation. Tarsem Jodhan, speaker of CPI (ML) Liberation said that the government’s anti-Dalit face has come to the fore. He also said that the party will work towards strengthening the revolutionary left movement in the country.

The arrested labourers in jails of Gurdaspur, Bathinda, Patiala have gone on hunger strike. Today in the Mansa local court the judge did not allow the labourers to appear in the court. He instead appointed a Naib Tehsildar to visit the labourers in the jail. The labourers were disappointed as they were not given an opportunity to put their views in the court.

An all party meeting is to held at Ludhiana on 02 July, 2009 to discuss the further course of the movement.

From a press release by Revolutionary Youth Organization (RYA), the youth wing of CPI (M-L)