On 10 June a team of eight activists and students led by CPIML Central Committee member, Balindra Saikia visited Baghjan, the site of the oil blowout on 27 May 2020, followed by a fire in the same oil well on 9 June 2020. The team along with Balindra Saikia comprised Bitupon Bakolial, Secretary of Dibrugarh District committee of CPIML; Lopamudra Tamuli, Suraj Mahali and Vishal Kaul, comrades of AISA; Noihrit Gogoi, Urnisha Swargari and, a student of Tezpur Medical college, Anisha Gogoi.

A CPIML fact-finding team visited Sugauli in Eastern Champaran on 17 November 2019 to enquire into the recent horrific boiler blast which killed several people. The team enquired into the various aspects of the incident and found the State government, District administration, Education Department and an NGO responsible for the murderous incident. The decision to hand over mid-day meal preparation in government schools to NGOs results in negligence as well as outright danger.

(Fact-finding report conducted by a team led by Com. D. Harinath, Andhra Pradesh State Secretary to All India Kisan Mahasabha and State Committee Member of CPI-ML, on Kalyanalova Reservoir, Visakhapatnam District.)

(From a Fact-Finding Report by All India People’s Forum (AIPF), National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) and People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL))

Two Muslim youths taken into custody to Dumra Thana in Sitamarhi from village Ramdiha, Chakiya Thana, Eastern Champaran died in police custody on 5 March 2019. A CPI(ML) fact-finding team visited Ramdiha (Sitamarhi) on 9 March and spoke with the victims’ families and the local villagers.

1. Isn’t it true that a mere 4% of black money is in cash? Why have you broken your promise of bringing back black money from offshore havens?

2. Isn’t it true that a very large component of counterfeit currency is in Rs 100 notes – which are untouched by demonetization? So demonetization has not wiped out counterfeit currency. Isn’t demonetizing notes to wipe out counterfeit currency, rather like destroying rice instead of just picking out the stones?

A fact-finding team comprised Medha Patkar (leader of the National Alliance of People’s Movements - NAPM), Rajaram Singh, ex-MLA from CPIM and General Secretary of the All India Kisan Mahasabha (AIKM), Dr Ashok Dhawale (President of the All India Kisan Sabha – AIKS), KK Ragesh, MP (Joint Secretary of the AIKS), all the three MPs from Tripura - Jitendra Chaudhury, Shankar Prasad Datta and Jharna Das Baidya - and ex-MP Narayan Kar visited Tripura from August 3-5, 2018 to study the situation there after the BJP-IPFT government came to power in March 2018.

An AIPF Team consisting of R. Vidyasagar, social scientist, Clifton, Advocate Bangalore, G. Ramesh, Advocate, Tirunelveli, Abdul Nizam, Advocate Thirunelveli, and Sundarraj, social activist, Thirunelveli. has visited and Kumareddypuram, Veerapandipuram, Pandarampatti, and settlements of Anna Nagar and Therespuram in Tutucorin town on 27th May 2018.