Brinda Karat

Statement by CPI(M) Polit Bureau Member, Brinda Karat, on Hate Speech Case against Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Verma

Being Dismissed by Magistrate Court

We are herewith releasing the full text of the letter addressed today to the Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Shri Prakash Javadekar by Brinda Karat, Member, Polit Bureau, CPI(M) giving the CPI(M)’s response to the Draft Notification for Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) 2020.

We are herewith releasing the full text of the letter addressed to the Home Minister, Amit Shah by CPI(M) Polit Bureau Member, Brinda Karat. This pertains to the inhuman treatment of human rights activists arrested in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case. The letter was sent today.

Polit Bureau Member, Brinda Karat, has written a letter to the Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Harsh Vardhan today demanding the withdrawal of the suspension of certain rules of the PCPNDT Act.

Despite the express mandate of law, the names and addresses of all arrested persons are not being displayed at the Police Control Room

While hearing a plea by Brinda Karat, Member of the Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) and K.M.Tewari (Secy Delhi State Committee) the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vishal Pahuja has directed the DCP, New Delhi to submit a report on the non-filing of FIRs against BJP leaders Shri Anurag Thakur and Shri Parvesh Verma for delivering hate speeches in Delhi recently, during the campaign for the assembly elections.

CPI(M) Polit Bureau Member, Brinda Karat has addressed a letter to Hardeep Puri, Minister for Urban Development demanding that the demolished Guru Ravidas temple is rebuilt and the samadhis are restored in their original place. The full text of the letter is being released for publication.

A CPI(M) delegation comprising of Brinda Karat and Subhashini Ali (PB members), Surinder Singh (Member, State Secretariat, CPIM) and Jagveer Bhatti (District Committee member, CPIM) visited Naya Bas and Chindraoti villages in Siyana block, Bulandshahar on January 5.

CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury and Polit Bureau Member Brinda Karat met the Chief Election Commissioner this evening seeking his intervention to ensure that counting is resumed in three booths of 23-Dhanpur assembly constituency of Tripura from where Chief Minister Manik Sarkar is contesting. Counting was stopped following the BJP’s objections.