20th Congress

Demand to Make Rights of Disabled Justiciable

Resolution
Adopted at the 20th Congress of the CPI(M), Kozhikode, April 4-9, 2012
 
Demand to Make Rights of Disabled Justiciable
 
The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses its deep concern and anguish at the continued violation of the rights of persons with disabilities.
 
The recent incidents where disabled passengers were deboarded or humiliated is a case in point. Everyday thousands of disabled citizens face varying degrees of difficulties, harassment, humiliation when in public spaces because of the lack of facilities, insensitivity and stigma.

On the Issue of D-Voters in Assam

Resolution
Adopted at the 20th Congress of the CPI(M), Kozhikode, April 4-9, 2012
 
On the Issue of D-Voters in Assam
 
 
The 20th Congress of the CPI (M) notes with deep concern the continuing problem of D-voters in Assam which particularly affects people belonging to the religious and linguistic minorities. The names of some voters have been marked with word `D' (Doubtful) in electoral rolls and on the eve of every Assembly and Lok Sabha elections, some additional names are added to the list of D-voters. The D-voters are suspected to be foreigners entering and living illegally in the state of Assam.

Against Blockade of Socialist Cuba

Resolution
Adopted at the 20th Congress of the CPI(M), Kozhikode, April 4-9, 2012
 
Against Blockade of Socialist Cuba
 
The 20th Congress of the CPI (M) condemns the illegal and inhuman blockade imposed by the United States on Socialist Cuba and demands that it be lifted without any delay.
 
The embargo on Cuba which was initially partially imposed soon after the Cuban revolution, in October 1960 has been tightened over the years. In 1996, the draconian Helms-Burton Act was passed which was further expanded in 1999. The imperialist aim has been to strangulate Socialist Cuba and to prevent its trade and commercial relations with the rest of the world. The damage caused by the blockade on Cuba for the island country is estimated at $975 billion.
 
This blatant interference in the sovereign rights of nations to choose their own path of development and in particular the Socialist path of advance chosen by the Cuban people has been condemned the world over.

For Rights of Bengali Refugees

Resolution
Adopted at the 20th Congress of the CPI(M), Kozhikode, April 4-9, 2012
 
For Rights of Bengali Refugees
 
 
 
This Party Congress calls upon the Central Government to honour the assurance given by the Prime Minister to sympathetically consider the legitimate demand of the large numbers of Bengali refugees to recognize them as citizens of India. They had fled their country erstwhile East Pakistan and then Bangladesh. A large number of these refugees belong to the Scheduled Castes, mainly namashudra communities and are living in different parts of the country.
This Party Congress recognizes that the heightened insecurity of these communities is because of their exclusion in the current Aadhar drive of citizen identification which makes them even more vulnerable.

Resolution on Farmers’ Suicides and Agrarian Crisis

Resolution on Farmers’ Suicides and Agrarian Crisis
Adopted at the 20th Congress of the CPI(M), Kozhikode, April 4-9, 2012
 
 
The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses its deep anguish at the continuing phenomenon of distress-induced suicides among farmers in different parts of India. These suicides of farmers have come to be the most visible manifestation of the crisis of livelihoods that liberalisation and imperialist-led globalisation has unleashed in the Indian countryside after 1991. It is a reflection of the decline in public investment in agriculture, slow growth of agricultural output, adverse terms of trade and decline in the share of cultivators in the value addition.
 
The 20th Congress of the CPI(M) notes with grave concern that, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), between 1995 and 2010, there were a total of 2,56,913 suicides of Indian farmers. A substantial number of these are related to the impact of the agrarian crisis.

President's Address: S R Pillai

Speech of S. Ramachandran Pillai, President of the Inaugural Session of the 20th Congress of the CPI(M)
 
Comrades,
 
I am very happy to greet you all on the occasion of the 20th Congress of Communist Party of India (Marxist).  Prakash Karat, General Secretary of the Party has explained the major tasks before the 20th Congress.  The Party Congress is an important event for the Party.  The Party Congress is the supreme organ of the Party which decides all political and organisational issues before the Party.
 
We are holding the 20th  Congress in Kerala, one of the  strongest units of the Party which has great revolutionary traditions and has produced many great working class leaders like P. Krishna Pillai, EMS Namboodiripad, A. K.