The Hindu : CPI to lay siege to Collectorates

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Saturday, Sep 13, 2003

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Southern States - Kerala

CPI to lay siege to Collectorates

By Our Special Correspondent

KOZHIKODE SEPT. 12. The State CPI leadership is enthused by the good public response to its ongoing campaign against communalism and the new economic policies. It has also made use of the campaign to highlight what in its perception are the failures of the UDF Government.

Currently, the CPI leadership is busy mustering all resources at its command to ensure a massive turnout for its plan to lay siege on the district Collectorates in the State on September 18.

The CPI top-brass hopes that the protest would be a fitting climax to its ongoing nation-wide programmes aimed at rousing public revulsion against ``the anti-people economic policies and communal politics'' being practised by the BJP-led Central Government.

On September 18, party supporters would lay siege to the Collectorates in all districts in the State, except Ernakulam. There, in view of the ongoing electioneering for the by-election to the Lok Sabha, the venue of the protest would be the RDO office at Muvattupuzha.

The action on September 18 is in continuation of the CPI's nation-wide protest programme. The CPI had launched its protest programme with `Jana jagran yatra', primarily to muster popular support for the campaign against the economic policy and communalism. It covered 35,000 km, evoking enthusiastic response, the party leader, Sathyan Mokeri, told The Hindu.

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