Hunger Deaths In India Continues.......

UPA's Official figures say - 4,800 starvation deaths in India in last 4 years; However, unofficial figures says 20000 thousands die of hunger in 4 years. BJP's leader M.A. Naqvi has also labelled such charges upon UPA govt. Let us hear what he says "4,800 deaths have taken place in the country due to starvation in the last four years. The Centre is responsible for the steep price rise of essential commodities. As many as 4800 deaths in last 48 months have taken place due to starvation in the country." He further says - "The UPA government should make public the figures of deaths due to starvation in last four-five years as this is a serious issue." "Now the Congress too has become an MNC with a CEO at the helm of affairs," he said

Now, We, the common people of India asks him - "Did BJP prove any better? The prices of Onion had soared too high and the BJP was voted out. And, what was the truth behind the shining India compaign?"

We all know these all political parties are parties of the Indian ruling classes - the bourgeoisie and the landlords- and serve them only. They talk about people just to hoodwink the common people. Shall we ever come forward to teach these parties a suitable lesson?

Torture Deaths In India

Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) has recently released a report named 'Torture in India, 2009' in which are compiled "the true facts of ill-treated human rights in India". This report has zeroed in on (police) custodial tortures, and custodial tortures by armed forces and armed opposition groups etc. It mercilessly uncover many accounts of atrocities let loose by the law enforcing agency and officers of india. The report contains the panoptic narrative of deaths in the police custody with detailed state wise account of such incidents. From April 2001 to March 2009 an estimated 1,184 persons were killed in police custody in India. Overwhelmingly, most of the victims were killed as a result of torture within the first 48 hours after being taken into custody.
This report highlights that the National Human right commission has failed to effectively address torture and other human rights violation. According to a statement by Suhas Chakma, Director of ACHR, these deaths in custody do not however represent the actual number of deaths in police custody in India. A number of cases of custodial death taken up by ACHR with the National Human Rights Commission show that the NHRC was not informed by the police about these custodial deaths, while the NHRC has expressed its anguish against the failure to report these cases of custodial deaths but the NHRC's guidelines on reporting custodial deaths within 24 hours continue to be flouted. According to a senior lawyer, India has the highest number of cases of police torture and custodial deaths among the world's democracies and the weakest legislation against torture. Unfortunately, in the country, torture is seen as routine police behaviour to extract confessions.
The disturbing finding of the report points the finger at the Government as India has not ratified the Unite Nations Convention Against Torture, although it has been a signatory since October 1997. Ratification is necessary for appropriate changes to be made in the prevailing laws, and to enable institutions and executing authorities in India to be committed and accountable to address the practice of torture. Fighting torture has been a long standing campaign of many human rights organizations in India, – be it in the case of Jammu and Kashmir, the North East, Gujarat or as recently in the case from Nandigram and Singur. But the thousands of such victims who were forcefully removed from their villages and pulled to camps still suffer for no cause. In fact these blameworthy and reproachful facts marked a blot on the world’s largest democracy. (parts of NM Salih's article "Unratified India And Tortured People" He is a Delhi based journalist working with The Milli Gazette, a fortnightly english newspaper.)

After a decade of galloping economic growth, child malnutrition rates are worse ...”

“About 60% children in Madhya Pradesh state are malnourished" India has some of the highest rates of child malnutrition and mortality in under-fives in the world and Madhya Pradesh state has the highest levels in India. There are around 10 million children in the state. A decade ago 55% were malnourished. Two years ago the government's own National Family Health Survey put the figure for Madhya Pradesh at around 60%.” By the way, your author notes that the work of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEFf) enables leaders of India’s capitalist system to to save money on feeding its children, and focus more on building and buying submarines.

Should Indian Leaders spend billions on submarine while lakhs and crores starve

Indian Prime Minister Mammohan Singh has recently launched a 3 billion dollar nuclear submarine. It can carry Russian built missiles equipped to deliver India’s Atomic bombs. Whose money is this? Is it not at the cost of taking bread from the mouths and life from the poor? "Both the cost of building nuclear submarines, and the purchasing of others, are paid for with funds drawn on the treasury of a ‘democracy’ that does not feed its children." Let us not forget that according to a World Bank estimate, India is a gigantic torture chamber for the 47% of its children under five who suffer malnutrition. It should also be remembered that 2.1 million of Indian kids die before their fifth birthday due to malnutrition and preventable illnesses.