Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha ( lit. Chhattisgarh Liberation Front) is a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...

in the

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

n state of

Chhattisgarh Chhattisgarh (, ) is a landlocked state in Central India. It is the ninth largest state by area, and with a population of roughly 30 million, the seventeenth most populous. It borders seven states – Uttar Pradesh to the north, Madhya Prade ...

. On 3 March 1977, the Chhattisgarh Mines Shramik Sangh (Chhattisgarh Mines Workers' Union) was founded by

Shankar Guha Niyogi Shankar Guha Niyogi (14 February 1943 – 28 September 1991) was an Indian labor leader who was the founder of the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha, a labor union run in the town of Dalli Rajhara Mines in Chhattisgarh, India. Niyogi was founder of ...

. In 1982, CMSS formed CMM as their political front. CMM was formed to fight for the cultural identity of the region and for upliftment for the workers and peasants. CMM organized social campaigns, such as against alcohol abuse and instituted social projects, such as a workers' financed hospital. Niyogi was murdered in

Bhilai Bhilai is a city in Durg district of the States and union territories of India, Indian state of Chhattisgarh, in eastern central India. With population exceeding 1 million, it is the second-largest urban area in Chhattisgarh after Raipur. Bhil ...

1991. Today Janak Lal Thakur is the president of CMM and Anoop Singh its secretary. The motto of CMMs is ''Sangharsh aur Nirman'' (Struggle and Construction). Another motto is ''Virodh Nahi Vikalp'' (Not resistance, but alternative). CMM was neutral on the issue of formation of a separate Chhattisgarh state. CMM is very active in the struggle against

genetically modified Genetic engineering, also called genetic modification or genetic manipulation, is the modification and manipulation of an organism's genes using technology. It is a set of Genetic engineering techniques, technologies used to change the gene ...

seeds. In the legislative assembly elections in

2003 CMM had put up eight candidates, whom together mustered 37,335 votes.

External links

Info on CMM from the state webpage
documentary on S.G. Niyogi and CMM

* ttp://ngin.tripod.com/111202d.htm Seed Satyagrah - The Great Gene Robberyon the struggle of CMMs against genetically modified seeds
Article in Frontline on the struggle against genetically modified seeds
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