COMING DOWN heavily on the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for following the footsteps of the erstwhile National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, member of the central working committee of the Communist Party of India (M), Subhashini Ali, said the government was violating the common minimum programme (CMP) and Left parties would continue to maintain their pressure on UPA government in Parliament.
Besides, the Communist Party had decided to take to the street against anti-employees and anti-labour policies of the government.
Addressing a public meeting at Shastri Inter College in Amhia, Ali said the government had miserably failed to check terrorist attacks and expressed concern over increasing activities of separatist forces. She said the Communist Party had decided to organise 200 rallies in different parts of the country to expose the policies of the Union government and demanded that Essential Commodities Act should be reinforced.
Ali said skyrocketing prices of essential commodities, growing communalism and starvation deaths and government silence on these basic issues would be raised during the public meeting.
She recalled that the Communist Party has supported the Congress-led government to sideline communal parties but during its one-year tenure, Manmohan Singh government did not take any affective steps to punish the forces responsible for Gujarat riots neither did it ensure justice for the victims.
Responding to a question, she said at the party’s Hyderabad convention, the working committee had reviewed the performance of the Central government and decided to organise public meeting against the government. She said that the government’s faulty food policy had been exposed and it had no control over rise in the prices of essential commodities.
{{/usCountry}}Responding to a question, she said at the party’s Hyderabad convention, the working committee had reviewed the performance of the Central government and decided to organise public meeting against the government. She said that the government’s faulty food policy had been exposed and it had no control over rise in the prices of essential commodities.
{{/usCountry}}The government had invited MNCs for purchasing wheat. If such policies continued, common people would be deprived of bread, she added.
Criticising the government’s nuclear policies, she accused the UPA government of succumbing to US pressure. District president of the party, Purushottam Tripathi, criticised the administration for its failure to check illicit liquor trader.