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Police personnel form a barricade as supporters of Aam Aadmi Party and the party leaders hold a protest gathering near the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's headquarters in New Delhi, India, May 19, 2024
PHASE 5 of India’s six-week election gets underway tomorrow — but communists warn that the Electoral Commission is ignoring multiple violations.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) complains that India’s electoral authorities ignore regular instances of BJP candidates, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, inciting communal hatred against Muslims, and even instances of police violence against Muslim voters.
CPI-M outlet People’s Democracy reported today that in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal constituency, groups of police officers attacked people queueing to vote in the mainly Muslim Mansoorpur, Ovari, Shahbazpur Kalan and Mubarakpur villages, snatching ID cards and voting slips and beating them with lathis (iron-bound bamboo rods often carried by police in India).
Following the resignation of Nepali Prime Minister KP Oli amid mass youth-driven protests, different narratives have circulated which simplify and misrepresent the complexities and reality on the ground in Nepal at the roots of this crisis, argue VIJAY PRASHAD and ATUL CHANDRA
Indian communist leader MA Baby considers the chilling escalation of violence against minorities and increasing impunity for their attackers under the Modi regime
