Mangal Kunjam is doing an interview with Comrade Saji of Communist Party of India from the meeting venue to commemorate the martyrdom on many laborers who died in police firing on 5th April 1978 in Bailadila. Comrade Saji tells the brief history of the the incident. He also says though officially only 11 laborers died in the incident but the actual number was much higher which will always remain a mystery.

Mangal Kunjam was present in CRPF camp in Barsur in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh on 5th April when the Jawans took an oath on the occasion of 1st anniversary of martyrdom of 76 Jwans a year ago in Tadmetla fighting the Naxals. In this live report you can hear the CRPF officer speaking the first over a microphone which is followed by the CRPF jawans

Mangal Kunjam is talking from Danteshwari mela in Dantewada where he is noticing no arrangement for thousands of tribals who come from far off places as he sees tribals wandering around in heat, as administration has made no arrangement for shades or water. He says it is a world famous adivasi fair and administration collects lots of money from companies for this fair and also claims spending a lot from its own but the arrangement does not match all those claims

Mangal Kunjam is telling us about a people’s court organised by Collector Dantewada to solve people’s problems in Aranpur area. He says many officers attended the meeting who are posted in Aranpur but had never visited the area before and had no idea of where the place was. People were very happy with this initiative and shared their problems with enthusiasm. They felt if this kind of efforts continue then many of the their problems will be resolved

Mangal Kunjam from Dantewada in Chhattisgarh is reporting from a meeting of Shramjeevi Patrakar Sangh who has criticized the police for not filing a FIR against Danteswari Swabhiman Samiti for issuing death threat to three journalists NRK Pillay, Yashwant Yadav and Anil Mishra. The meeting has decided to request the state government to intervene in the matter otherwise the journalists will be forced to start a movement. Samiti is widely known as the new avatar of vigilante group Salwa Judum though both deny it