<p>Mumbai: Describing it as a "neo-fascist attack”, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has urged the Devendra Fadnavis-headed MahaYuti-NDA government to withdraw the “Special Jana Suraksha Bill” (Special Public Safety Bill), which the Left party alleged is aimed at brutally suppressing dissent and organised resistance to any of the state government policies and decisions.</p><p>“The purported objective of the Bill, in the words of Fadnavis, is to curtail “Urban Naxals”. The real objective of the Bill is to suppress the voice and acts of organised democratic resistance. If passed, which is a surety given the massive majority the ruling alliance commands in the state legislature, it will give draconian powers even to the lowest level police officers,” CPI (M) State Secretary Dr Ajit Nawale said. </p><p>“If passed, which is a surety given the massive majority the ruling alliance commands in the state legislature, it will give draconian powers even to the lowest level police officers,” Nawale pointed out to Fadnavis, who is also the state Home Minister and Law & Judiciary Minister.</p><p>“The people of Maharashtra are facing extreme hardships due to the anti-people policies of the BJP-led state and central governments, leading to deep anxiety and dissatisfaction among them. Farmers, workers, agricultural workers, women, youth and students are coming out on the streets demanding solutions to their problems. Various social groups are also agitated over the issues of reservation in education and employment,” said Dr Nawale.</p>.'Action causes reaction,' Shinde's first reaction on Kunal Kamra-Shiv Sena controversy.<p>“Sections of the toiling masses are raising their voice through constitutionally mandated democratic means on these grave problems like prices of farm produce, crop insurance, work under MGNREGA, land rights, issues related to land acquisition and rehabilitation, minimum wage, price rise, education, employment, health, caste and religion-based oppression and injustice. The governments, state as well as centre, instead of solving these problems, are bent upon suppressing people’s just demands. The governments are dynamiting people’s democratic rights in order to further their agenda favouring the corporate communal forces. The Jana Suraksha Bill is aimed at strengthening this crony corporate communal combination against the people’s interests,” Dr Nawale said in a press statement.</p><p>“The government's claim that the aim of this proposed legislation is to rein in the illegal acts of individuals or organisations sounds hollow in the light of the intentional ambiguity contained in the provisions of the Bill,” he said, adding: “The state government has arrogated to itself the sole right of declaring any act or organisation “illegal”. This bill proposes imprisonment for three years and a fine of three lakh rupees to a member of an organisation so declared illegal, including those supporting that organisation, those collecting funds for that organisation or those attending its meetings.”</p>
<p>Mumbai: Describing it as a "neo-fascist attack”, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has urged the Devendra Fadnavis-headed MahaYuti-NDA government to withdraw the “Special Jana Suraksha Bill” (Special Public Safety Bill), which the Left party alleged is aimed at brutally suppressing dissent and organised resistance to any of the state government policies and decisions.</p><p>“The purported objective of the Bill, in the words of Fadnavis, is to curtail “Urban Naxals”. The real objective of the Bill is to suppress the voice and acts of organised democratic resistance. If passed, which is a surety given the massive majority the ruling alliance commands in the state legislature, it will give draconian powers even to the lowest level police officers,” CPI (M) State Secretary Dr Ajit Nawale said. </p><p>“If passed, which is a surety given the massive majority the ruling alliance commands in the state legislature, it will give draconian powers even to the lowest level police officers,” Nawale pointed out to Fadnavis, who is also the state Home Minister and Law & Judiciary Minister.</p><p>“The people of Maharashtra are facing extreme hardships due to the anti-people policies of the BJP-led state and central governments, leading to deep anxiety and dissatisfaction among them. Farmers, workers, agricultural workers, women, youth and students are coming out on the streets demanding solutions to their problems. Various social groups are also agitated over the issues of reservation in education and employment,” said Dr Nawale.</p>.'Action causes reaction,' Shinde's first reaction on Kunal Kamra-Shiv Sena controversy.<p>“Sections of the toiling masses are raising their voice through constitutionally mandated democratic means on these grave problems like prices of farm produce, crop insurance, work under MGNREGA, land rights, issues related to land acquisition and rehabilitation, minimum wage, price rise, education, employment, health, caste and religion-based oppression and injustice. The governments, state as well as centre, instead of solving these problems, are bent upon suppressing people’s just demands. The governments are dynamiting people’s democratic rights in order to further their agenda favouring the corporate communal forces. The Jana Suraksha Bill is aimed at strengthening this crony corporate communal combination against the people’s interests,” Dr Nawale said in a press statement.</p><p>“The government's claim that the aim of this proposed legislation is to rein in the illegal acts of individuals or organisations sounds hollow in the light of the intentional ambiguity contained in the provisions of the Bill,” he said, adding: “The state government has arrogated to itself the sole right of declaring any act or organisation “illegal”. This bill proposes imprisonment for three years and a fine of three lakh rupees to a member of an organisation so declared illegal, including those supporting that organisation, those collecting funds for that organisation or those attending its meetings.”</p>