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The increasing misuse of ED as an instrument of power is borne out by a steep 95% rise in its actions since Modi came to power. The central probe agencies are being used to engineer defections from Opposition parties like never before.
As we end a difficult year, let’s pause to remind ourselves of some of the positive changes that happened in 2022 that should inspire us to do more in the year to come. While some are only partial gains, they are all steps towards a more just, peaceful and sustainable world.
A study examined arrest records and forest offences under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. While 9 out of every 10 cases were still pending, impoverished forest-dwellers suffered livelihood loss and a heavy financial burden as trials dragged on for years.
The country’s jails teem with poor and marginalised people detained without justification.
4,28,278 cases of crimes against women were registered across India in 2021. However, the on-ground situation is worse than anyone’s expectations.
“Just living” is the whole point of doing politics.
The 2019 version of the bill was flawed. But in 2022, the government has gone all-out to protect the interests of Big Data, Big Capital, and the powers of the State at the cost of citizens’ privacy. Several civil society members have written a letter to MPs about their concerns with the proposed bill.
The removal of an elected president and the hasty swearing in of a de facto president is reminiscent of the coup against Evo Morales of Bolivia in 2019, although there are important differences.
There was undisguised triumph among a few people that “those people” had been shown their place, but most celebrated quietly.
While it is necessary to regulate the content posted on social media platforms, it cannot be done to stifle dissent and criticism of the government.
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Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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