TIRUPATI: M.K. Pandey, all-India president of the CITU said that the absence of Left parties in the UPA combine’s second innings was making it go indifferent and turn reckless even on matters of international and national ramifications.
It does not have even the common minimum programme which the UPA-I had, he said and charged that buoyed over the Left’s absence in its team, the Manmohan Singh government was back at its dangerous game of dancing to the tunes of the World Bank.
Mr. Pandey was addressing the four-day national convention of the CITU which got underway at Tirupati on Tuesday with a massive rally. He said despite the economic slow-down, if PSUs like LIC, BSNL and so on were able to withstand the rigors of the recession it was because of the strong presence of the Left parties in the UPA-I combine, putting brakes every time the Manmohan Singh government tried to dabble with the PSUs in the form of disinvestment, privatisation.
The CITU leader gave a call to all the trade unions to put aside their ideological differences and forge themselves together into a formidable force so as to check the UPA government’s anti-people, anti-labour and pro-World Bank policies.
The convention being attended by cadres from all over the country would deliberate mainly on four major issues viz; comprehensive legislation on the unorganised sector to provide succour to those engaged in the field, controlling price spiralling, combating economic slowdown and protecting PSUs against disinvestment designs of the UPA government.
Among other speakers were Mohammed Ameen, MP and national general secretary, CITU, G. Veeraiah, CITU State president, P. Hemalatha, national secretary, Sudha Bhaskar, State general secretary, P. Somaiah, State president of Agricultural Workers Union, K. Kumar Reddy, district CPI (M) secretary.
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