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Speech by Brinda Karat on Union Budget 2011-12 in the Rajya Sabha

Sun, 2011-03-13 21:31 | Brinda Karat
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Politburo Member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Brinda Karat remarks on the Union Budget and its iniquitous nature. The following is a transcript of her speech in the Rajya Sabha during the discussion of the Union Budget.

For inclusive approach to food security

Sun, 2009-07-05 14:01 | Brinda Karat

The proposed Food Security Act is flawed. The PDS should be made universal, as it was prior to the targeted system introduced in the 1990s as part of the neo-liberal agenda.,writes Brinda Karat.

Source: 
The Hindu

On International Women’s Day

Mon, 2009-03-09 08:06 | Brinda Karat

International Women’s Day, a day celebrated throughout the world to express solidarity with women’s struggles for equality has a special significance this year in the context of the global financial crisis and the added burdens on the working people. If women’s emancipation is
linked to women’s economic independence through productive work, then the current economic recession will badly impact on the gains made, however slender in this direction.

India Rising and the hunger index

Wed, 2008-12-24 11:53 | Brinda Karat
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Surely the elimination of hunger should be a top national priority. Boasts of high economic growth rates matter little when such a pattern of growth is accompanied by an alarming growth in hunger says Brinda Karat

Source: 
The Hindu

The “Gender Gap Analysis”

Tue, 2008-11-25 08:43 | Brinda Karat
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Brinda Karat's critique of the World Economic Forum's gender gap index report 2008.

Terror has no religion

Thu, 2008-11-13 08:37 | Brinda Karat

The aggressive defence by the Shiv Sena of the terrorist activities of people acting in the name of Hindutva, combined with the BJP's refusal to condemn these activities, represent a danger mark in the political response to the rising tide of bomb attacks and violence against innocents. Any effort to give terrorism a communal colour will surely spell disaster for our country. Writes Brinda Karat. Courtesy: TOI, 11th Nov '08

Put Bajrang Dal & VHP On Terror List

Wed, 2008-09-24 21:59 | Brinda Karat

Brinda Karat, CPI(M) MP and Polit Bureau member has written the following letter to union home minister Shivraj Patil on September 8, 2008 urging strong action against the Bajrang Dal and the VHP for their terroristic activities.