CPI to raise Pahalgam attack, Trump ceasefire remarks and Bharat Mata portrait row during Monsoon Session

The Communist Party of India (CPI) MP P Sandosh Kumar on Sunday said that his party will raise key concerns, including the alleged intelligence failure in Pahalgam attack, US President Donald Trump’s India-Pakistan ceasefire claim, Bihar SIR exercise, and the Bharat Mata portrait row, during the Monsoon Session of Parliament, kicking off Monday.

Criticising the government over the Pahalgam terrorist attack, Kumar demanded accountability from the government for security lapses.

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“The Prime Minister must come clean before the nation through the doors of Parliament,” he said.

The CPI MP also highlighted the repeated assertions by US President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly claimed that he mediated a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, following Operation Sindoor.

Kumar said that these statements have emboldened attempts to internationalise the Kashmir issue, which is an internal matter.

The CPI has also criticised the Prime Minister’s silence and dubbed it a direct consequence of the current government’s foreign policy failures and reiterated that India’s sovereign matters cannot be subject to external meddling.

Kumar further drew attention to the situation in Bihar, where the misuse of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has led to serious concerns of disenfranchisement of the poor, socially marginalised sections, minorities, and migrant workers.

The CPI MP called for immediate action on a pending impeachment notice against Justice Shekhar Yadav for his blatantly communal remarks, saying it was a test of Parliament’s commitment to the constitutional value of secularism.

He also condemned the ongoing annihilation of adivasis under the guise of Operation Kagar, and demanded a probe into the reports emerging from Dharmasthala, Karnataka, involving allegations of killings, rapes, and mass burials, urging that the matter be handed over to the NIA.

Raising working-class issues, the MP raised the demands of workers and peasants who mobilised for the July 9 all-India strike, demanding a rollback of the anti-worker labour codes and a legal guarantee of MSP. He also demanded the immediate release of the central share of wages due to Asha workers in Kerala.

Furthermore, he questioned why the Christian community continues to be denied representation in the National Minority Commission and raised concerns over Governors displaying inaccurate maps of the country in official functions in the name of Bharat Mata portraits.

He also targeted the Centre for its “complete failure” to provide any resolution to the continuing crisis in Manipur.

The CPI will raise these issues during the Monsoon Session and will hold the government accountable to the people of the country, he added.