WHILE
reviewing the
political situation in the state in its two day meeting held
at Chandigarh on
September 4 and 5, the Punjab state committee of the CPI(M)
observed that the
common people --- industrial
workers,
agricultural workers, small and middle peasants, and the urban
poor --- were
reeling under the unbearable conditions of sky-rocketing
prices of essential
commodities, mounting unemployment, rampant corruption and
deteriorating law
and order. There is a great feeling of anguish and resentment
among the common
people against the Congress led UPA government at the centre
and the Akali-BJP
government in Punjab.
The state
committee
also expressed deep concern over the worsening financial
crisis in the state
because of which the Badal government is not in a position to
pay salaries to
its employees in time. What is condemnable is the fact that
the chief minister
and the deputy chief minister are hoodwinking the people by
making phoney
claims that there is no fiscal crisis and by announcing
concessions and new
projects one after another as if there is no dearth of money
with the
government. The CPI(M) state committee demanded that the chief
minister should
cut down unnecessary and wasteful expenditures on appointing
an army of chief
parliamentary secretaries etc, etc, and prune the top heavy
administration and
cancel the decision to purchase helicopters and luxury cars
etc.
The state
committee
expressed sympathy with the peasants whose crops have been
damaged due to flooding
of the areas along the Sutlej, Beas and Ravi
banks. It demanded that the Punjab
government
should immediately assess the losses by holding special girdawari and give adequate relief and
compensation to the victims
of these floods.
The state
committee
identified four parliamentary seats --- Anandpur Sahib, Ludhiana,
Sangrur and Jalandhar (R) --- for
contesting in the ensuing Lok Sabha elections. It also chalked
out a
comprehensive programme of mass contact and propagation of the
10 point
alternative policy platform adopted by the national convention
of four Left
parties held at Delhi
on July 1, 2013. It also decided to build struggles and
campaign on the burning
local issues of the people.
The state
committee
has decided to hold a programme at village Bundala in
Jalandhar district on
September 22, 2013, as a part of observance of the fifth death
anniversary of
Comrade Harkishan Singh Surjeet. (Bundala is the latter’s
native village.) The
state committee exhorted upon all the party cadres and
sympathisers to reach
Bundala from all over the state in large numbers.
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