Left rally to protest Govt's "failure" to check rising prices

Accusing the government of totally failing to curb rising prices, Left parties on Thursday decided to mobilise people from across the country for a joint rally here during the Budget Session of Parliament in March.

Accusing the government of totally failing to curb rising prices, Left parties on Thursday decided to mobilise people from across the country for a joint rally here during the Budget Session of Parliament in March.

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This was decided at a meeting here of Left leaders, which took stock of the joint campaign already being conducted in the states against price rise, on problems of drought and flood and to demand food security.

"We made several suggestions to the government to check the galloping prices, including banning futures trading in essential items and universalising the public distribution system. But the government has not heeded to them," CPI General Secretary A B Bardhan said after the meeting.

Besides high prices, the people were reeling under acute problems like growing unemployment and the issue of land, he said.

Announcing that a massive rally would be organised here in March next year, Bardhan said the Left parties would mobilise the people from across the country for it.

Later, a joint statement issued by the four parties said the government has "totally failed to curb the continuing steep rise in the prices of food items. The problems of land and unemployment have become acute".

Besides Bardhan, those who attended the meeting were Prakash Karat, Sitaram Yechury (CPI-M), D Raja (CPI), Abani Roy (RSP) and Debabrata Biswas (Forward Bloc).