State units of Left parties are jointly holding a public rally in
Bangalore on Tuesday to project their alternative programme for
addressing people’s issues and exposing the “real face” of the Bharatiya
Janata Party and the Congress.
Addressing presspersons State secretary of the Communist
Party of India (Marxists), G.V. Srirama Reddy, State secretary CPI P.V.
Lokesh, and G.R. Shivashankar, State president, All India Forward
Block, said CPI (M) Politburo member Brinda Karat and CPI leader D. Raja
would address the rally to be held at Freedom Park.
Left parties have adopted a 10-point policy platform and have requested
all democratic and secular forces to join them. The alternative
programme of the Left parties include implementation of land reform
measures, remunerative prices to farmers as recommended by the M.S.
Swaminathan Commission Report, stepping up of public investment for
infrastructure and setting up of manufacturing and other industries, Mr.
Lokesh said.
Neo-liberal agenda
Mr. Reddy said there was hardly any difference between Gujarat Chief
Minister Narendra Modi and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi when it
comes to economic policies, as both have neo-liberal economic agenda.
Lad issue
Demanding the resignation of Minister of State for Infrastructure
Santosh Lad, whose company is facing charges of illegal mining, he said
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who carried out a padayatra from Bangalore
to Bellary demanding a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into
illegal mining, should drop Mr. Lad from his ministry on moral grounds.
(Courtesy : The Hindu)
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