There is massive and enthusiastic response to the week- long anti-corruption and anti-price rise campaign launched on July 15 by the four Left Parties— CPI, CPI (M), RSP and Forward Bloc — all over the country. Massive rallies, hall meetings and conventions are being organized in different parts of the country rouse the people in the battle against corruption. In several places the meetings are also being organized against price rise also.
Through the week long campaign the Left parties are highlighting the following five demands:
i) Adoption of an effective Lokpal Legislation
ii) A National Judicial Commission to curb corruption in high judiciary
iii) Stringent action against the rampant corruption fostered by the big business-politician-bureaucratic nexus which has led to scandal such as the 2G spectrum case.
iv) Implementation of electoral reforms including introduction of proportional representation system to check money power in elections.
v) Steps to unearth black money and repatriation of the illegal money stashed abroad.
As all these evils including the unprecedented rise in the prices of all essential commodities are bye-products of the policies of economic neo-liberalism shamelessly being implemented by the Dr. Manmohan Singh government, the Left campaign is aimed at highlighting the fact that the policies of globalization, liberalization and privatization are the one that were dictated by the international finance capital through its tools like World Bank, IMF and WTO.
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| Chennai, Tamil Nadu (July 19) |
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| Sikar, Rajasthan (July 21) |
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| Hanumangarh, Rajasthan (July 21) |
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