A joint meeting of the state coordination committee of the Communist Party of India and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) was held here on April 26, 2011 at Cheema Bhawan. In the session that was presided over by Dr. Joginder Dayal, member of the national executive of the Communist Party of India, the CPI decided to hold mass political rallies and demonstrations in 12 districts especially in the first phase of the campaign which would be against corruption, rising prices and unemployment.
Apart from these burning issues affecting the development process in the state, there is unending industrial crises leading to unprecedented rate of unemployment, and also against the commercialization of education and health care.
The financial crisis which the state is facing today, involves increasing agriculture crisis resulting in unbearable rural indebtedness culminating in thousands of suicides by the peasants and agriculture workers. In addition there is the unending industrial crises leading to unprecedented unemployement, against the commercialization of education and health care.
The financial crisis which the state is facing today, involves increasing agriculture crisis resulting in unbearable rural indebtedness culminating in thousands of suicides by the peasants and agriculture workers. In addition there is the unending industrial crises leading to unprecedented unemployement, against the commercialization of education and health care.
For the development of the state in all spheres of life, campaign would be initiated against the deteriorating law and order situation, against the unprecedented daily repression of the struggling masses and against the draconian laws passed by the Punjab Assembly suffocating the democratic rights and liberties of the masses.
The meeting was attended by the leaders of both the parties which included Charn Singh Virdi, secretary, CPI (Marxist), Raghunath Singh and Lehmbar Singh Taggar both members of CPI(M) state secretariat and Dr. Joginder Dayal and Nirmal Singh, both state secretaries of the CPI and Bant Singh Brar and Gurnam Kanwar both members of the state secretariat, CPI. These rallies will be held at Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Tarn Taran, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Ludhiana, Patiala, Sangrur, Mansa, Bathinda, Moga and Ferozepur from May 20, to the end of June. The meeting had also decided to take steps to get other like-minded political forces in this campaign.
Resolutions taken in the session are as follows:
On the recent damage of wheat crop, the meeting expressed its deep sympathy with those whose crop has been damaged due to untimely rain and hail storm at a time when the crop was ready to be brought to the market.
It demanded that the state government should provide 100 percent compensation to the affected people. The meeting strongly rejected the meager bonus of just Rs.50 per quintal by the central government. It called it a cruel joke with peasants and that Rs.150 per quintal be given of which 33 percent should be born by the state which earns Rs.160 per quintal from the taxes.
Resolution on Civil Services Act
In another resolution the leaders of both the parties condemned the recently passed Civil Services Act because it puts all new employment on contract at the salary of 40 percent that of the regular salary. Hence The Civil Services It supported the agitation by all sections of employees, electricity engineers and workers. The meeting demanded that this Act should be withdrawn because it will cripple all the services to the people. The meeting directed all the district units to hold joint meetings and start making full preparation for the success of this campaign.
