COMMITTEE FOR THE RELEASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS (185/3, FOURTH FLOOR, ZAKIR NAGAR, NEW DELHI-110025)

On the Occasion of the acquittal of people's cultural artist Jiten Marandiand 3 others from death sentence by the Ranchi High Court

Let Us Demand that those police officials who fabricated evidence against Jiten and others be brought to book!

Oppose Death Penalty as a Form of Punishment of the State!

Invitation for a Convention: Multi-purpose Hall, India International Centre, Lodhi Road, Delhi

20 December 2011, 12.00 noon to 8 pm

Program and Speakers

Speakers:  AB Bardhan, Gen Sec CPI, Amit Bhadur, Professor Emeritus, JNU; Aparna, CPI(ML) New Democracy; Arundhati Roy, Writer; B D Sharm, Former IAS officer; E N Rammohan, Former DGP, Border Security Force(BSF); Girija Pathak, CPI(ML) Liberation, Madan Kashyap, Hindi writer; Pankaj Bisht, Editor, Samayantar; SAR Geelani, Delhi University; Sashi Bhushan Pathak, PUCL, Jharkhand; Sudha Bhardwaj, PUCL, Chhattisgarh; Sumit Chakravarty, Editor, Mainstream; and others.

Invitation to Convention for the formation of Students' Solidarity Committee for Separate Telangana (10am - 5pm, 10 March 2011, JNU, New Delhi)
Students' March to Parliament (12 am, 11 March 2011, Mandi House to Parliament Street)

Dear friends,

The world has been very much familiar with the history of the heroic sacrifices of the Telangana people. The struggle for a separate Telangana state is one of the most longstanding democratic movements of the Indian subcontinent. From the very inception of Andhra Pradesh in 1956 the people of Telangana have demanded a separate statehood. The more than five decades of continuous struggle have resulted today in the recognition and acceptance of a separate Telangana as a necessity among the people of the country.

On a call of the Democratic Front Against Operation Green Hunt, Punjab, a protest march and rally was organized at Bathinda on 8th January 2011. In chilling cold, protestors, including a good number of intellectuals, peasants, agricultural laborers, women, students, youth & children assembled at the local Teachers Home lawn. N.K.Jeet Advocate, State Committee Member of the Democratic Front described in detail, how Dr. Sen and his co-accused were implicated in a false criminal case, as he raised his voice against violation of democratic & human rights of tribals under the Salwa Judam campaign and expropriation of the mineral wealth lying underneath the tribal areas of Chhattisgarh, by imperialist Multi National Companies.

"Combating the impending corporate imperialism backed by the state along with white terrorism in the name of Operation Green Hunt, political as well as cultural resistance is the call of the time in order to protect the life and livelihood and to safeguard the rights of the poorest populace of world's greatest democracy", was unanimously resolved voice of the "Nisan Sammelan-2010", Bhubaneswar on "Cultural Resistance: War on People in Corporate Interest".

The two tiered conference was attended by more than five thousand people from around 30 co-operating organizations from various corners Odisha, along with progressive intellectuals like writer-activist Arundhati Roy and Varavara Rao.