SENIOR LEADER of Communist Part of India (Marxist) and Member of Parliament, Mohd Saleem said that United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government was showing reluctance in implementing the Common Minimum Programme (CMP).
Addressing a dharna at district headquarters in Varanasi on Friday, Saleem alleged that UPA Government was not paying proper attention towards basic needs of common people such as food, water, education and health.
Mohd. Saleem, also former Minister of West Bengal, demanded that the Employment Guarantee Scheme should be implemented in 500 districts than 200 districts across the country. `If a youth above 18 years of age has got the right to vote then he has also got the right to get employment’, he said.
He also lambasted RSS and Bhartiya Janta Party for raking up ‘Vande Mataram’ controversy.
“We will have to get rid of communalism and save secularism to safeguard the interest of the country,” he said.
District secretary of CPI (M), Dr. Heeralal Yadav and State secretary of Kisan Sabha, Deena Nath Singh exhorted the people to protest the UP government’s effort of snatching agricultural lands of farmers in eastern UP.