AICCTU held a dharna on 8 December 2008 at the Collectorate of Sabarkantha District. More than 150 workers and employees participated. The protestors accused the Centre’s UPA and Gujarat’s Narendra Modi Govt. of importing economic recession and terrorism from the US. They said that the communal-fascist Narendra Modi Govt. is defending Sanghi terrorism on the one hand and on the other is trying to exploit the Mumbai terror attacks to manufacture hate and votes. The dharna was addressed by AICCTU and CPI(ML) leaders Comrades Ranjan Ganguly, Dashrath Singhali, Ranjit Singh Rathore among others.
A mass meeting of adivasis against land mafias was held in Punath village of Umargaon Taluka of Valsad District on 9 January 2009, on the issue of the Forest Rights Act. CPI(ML) has been leading a struggle here for land rights of the tribals as per the Forest Rights Act. As an outcome of this struggle 200 acres of land was distributed in Sarigram among 65 tribal families and 65 acres of land was distributed in Jharoli Aklas among 30 families. Still, land mafias supported by the Modi regime continue to illegally control 10-12 acres of land in Sarigram. The meeting was addressed by Central Committee member Prabhat Kumar, Gujarat Party Secretary Ranjan Ganguly, CPI(ML) leader and lawyer in Ahmedabad Lakshmanbhai Patanwadia and RYA leader Amit Patanwadia.
