Speaking at a rally organised by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in solidarity with the Left Front (LF) government in West Bengal against Maoist-Trinamul Congress attacks, Mr. Achuthanandan said that given the massive efforts undertaken by the CPI(M)-led governments in Kerala and West Bengal, the Left would emerge victorious in both States.
In Kerala, the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government had provided rice at Rs.2 a kg to around 40 lakh families, drinking water to most households, free health care to around 35 lakh persons and brought around 60,000 acres of land under paddy cultivation to lift paddy output by one lakh tonnes. The performance of the LDF government in Kerala was so laudable that Congress MPs from Kerala had complained to their party president Sonia Gandhi against some Union Ministers praising the LDF government for its good deeds. The Congress and its allies were daydreaming about a victory in the local body polls on the basis of gains they had made in the last Lok Sabha elections. However, the elections would prove them to be wrong, Mr. Achuthanandan said.
Earlier, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member and West Bengal Industries and Commerce Minister Nirupam Sen said that the Left Front government was the victim of a massive misinformation campaign which had swayed prominent intellectuals in the country. Although there was the allegation that the LF government was with big industrialists, the results of the 62 nd National Sample Survey show that 95 per cent of the industries in West Bengal were small and medium enterprises. The State had over two lakh self-help groups, majority of them run by women, with a combined deposit base of over Rs.200 crore.
“It is not that there is no poverty or deprivation in West Bengal. All that we claim that we have done much to bring down poverty and deprivation,” Mr. Sen said. Home Minister and CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Kodiyeri Balakrishnan chaired the meeting.
(Courtesy : The Hindu)
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