CITU Struggle against Anti-people policies in Rajastan

Protests was conducted by CITU and All India Kisan Sabha in front of  Shikar(Rajastan) collectorate against the anti-people policies of Congress led Rajastan government. The dharna and protest rally was led by CPIM central committee member and MLA Com. Amra Ram. CPIM MLA Com Prema Ram also participated in the protest. Speaking at the occassion Com.Prema Ram said " BJP and Congress are two sides of the same coin.". The tussle for power in the state between congress and bjp is creating problem and the real issues are been sidelined. Both these parties are involved in horsetrading to win rajya sabha seats' he added. Com Amraram spoke of the stand taken by congress in the Bhopal trajedy verdit issue and the deeds done by them to make enroute to the Bhopal trajedy main accused Anderson to escape from India. He also questioned the BJP stand regarding this issue. After the protest dharna CITU and AIKS leaders submitted a memorandum to the District Collector on various issues. Women in largenumbers participated in the struggle.

Left parties statewide Dharna on June 28 against ‘Andhra Pradesh Govt anti-people' policies

Leaders of nine Left parties  declared a “war” against the Rosaiah government against its “anti-people” policies, scrapping or restricting welfare programmes, inordinate delay in releasing funds, spiraling prices of essential commodities, irregularities in the Indiramma Housing programme, Pavala Vaddi loans, delay fee reimbursement funds, Excise policy and so on.

As a part of the struggle, the Left parties have decided to organise dharnas all over the State on June 28. The leaders have demanded that the government immediately release funds for the ongoing welfare schemes. They also demanded that the government refrain from rendering injustice to the genuine white ration cardholders on pretext of bogus ration cards.

Addressing the State-level meeting at the Sundaraiah Vignan Bhavan here, the Left leaders said that the Congress government, which poses as a welfare government, has been withholding funds for welfare schemes. They also alleged that the government was not showing interest towards the poor though it was receiving thousands of crores of rupees from liquor tenders. They also did not rule out the possibility of the liquor mafia running the government in the future. They further observed that the government itself has become a liquor mafia. They demanded that the government scrap the just-concluded liquor tenders in order to reduce liquor sales and take steps to save the poor from liquor consumption.

The meeting also demanded that the government order an inquiry into the allegations leveled by the ruling party leaders against the 'Jalayagnam' scheme. The left leaders asked the government to solve the problems of the displaced persons of various irrigation projects. Left parties criticised the skewed priorities of the government that were resulting in severe hardship to the common man.

Addressing the participants, CPI (M) State secretary B.V. Raghavulu alleged that over Rs. 10,000 crore had been misappropriated by the ruling party leaders in the Jalayagnam programme. Several ruling party leaders including MLAs secured contracts and sub-contracts relating to construction of irrigation projects, he said recalling that the government had sent legal notices to the CPI (M) when the party first pointed out that over Rs. 100 crore had been misappropriated.CPI State secretary K. Narayana expressed concern that ‘liquor mafia' was dictating terms to the State government.

Apart from CPI state secretary K Narayana and CPM state secretary  B V Raghavulu, Venkat Reddy from MCPI,  Gurram Vijay Kumar from CPI (ML), Murahari from SUCI, Mr K Venakt Reddy from ML Committee, Muralidhar Deshpande from Forward Block and Mr Janakiramulu from RSP also spoke.

(Courtesy : andhraheadlines, The hindu)

Lower school fees:CPI (M)

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has asked the State government to lower the fees in schools for the benefit of poor students.

In a statement, CPM State secretary G. Ramakrishnan said the government should not wash its hands off by making the Justice Govindarajan Committee solely responsible for fixing school fees, as there was an apprehension that the committee could raise the fee after the opening of schools for this academic year following reports in the media.

Pointing out that the Madras High Court and the Supreme Court had rejected the demand of the schools to raise the fees; Mr. Ramakrishnan said people had taken to the streets in protest as many schools were collecting more than the fee prescribed by the committee.

The government should not succumb to the pressure exerted by private schools to reconsider the fee structure as lakhs of students would be affected, Mr. Ramakrishnan added.

CPIM observes fast to retain Government Land held by Justice Dinakaran

A 48 hour fast is being observed in Kaverirajapuram village, Thiruvalluvar district demanding the governement to retain the 200 acres of government barren land which the Karnataka Chief Justice Dinakaran has grabbed using force and forged documents. The dharna is being spearheaded by CPIM, All India Kisan Sabha, All India Agricultural Workers Union and various mass organisations. CPIM central committe member Com. U Vasuki is leading the protest. Around 500 peoples including women participated in the struggle. 80 comrades including 11 women and Com. U Vasuki were later arrested by the police. Tamil Nadu Agricultural Workers Union General Secretary Com. K Balakrishnan inaugurated the protest meet. While speeking at the occassion he camedown heavily on the authorities who have been acting as agents of Mr Dinakaran and are not taking any action to retain the government land. The Government is also taking a double stand in this issue he added.While asking for land to the landless poor and peasants the government is saying they have no land in their hands. But they are turning a blind eye on this land. He said " CPIM and its mass organisations will take up the struggle more vigourusly in the ocming days until the government land is retained"