CPI plans farmers' rally in Delhi

By Our Special Correspondent

PATNA, NOV. 9. The CPI has announced that it would hold a rally of farmers in Delhi on November 30 to focus on the NDA Government's `anti-farmer policies' and to protect their returns for their produce.

The programme was announced at a rally of the CPI at the Gandhi Maidan here on Tuesday organised for the implementation of an economic package for the State in the wake of the bifurcation of Bihar and the creation of the Jharkhand State on Nov. 15.

The meeting was addressed among others by the CPI General Secretary, Mr. A. B. Bardhan, and the former Union Minister, Mr. Chaturanan Mishra. Other party functionaries threatened that the demonstrators, if necessary, would march to Parliament, which would be in session on the day of the rally at the Red Fort.

Mr. Bardhan attacked both the BJP-led Central Government and the RJD-led State Government here. He accused the Central Government of forsaking the interests of the farmers so as to subserve the multinational companies and the U.S. Government.

He said the Vajpayee Government was bent upon doing away with the public distribution system as it was more a government of the trading community.

He also lashed out at the RJD-led Government in Bihar charging that there was no semblance of governance or law and order.

Mr. Bardhan said things could be changed only through a struggle which the CPI intended to wage. The CPI would launch a movement if the State Government went back on it word to hold the Panchayat elections in February next.

Meanwhile, the State unit announced that it would spearhead a movement in the second week of December.

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