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CPI flays PW ultimatum to TDP, BJP leaders

By Our Staff Reporter

ANANTAPUR OCT. 18. The district committee of the Communist Party of India has found fault with the approach of the People's War, which has issued an ultimatum to the TDP and BJP leaders in the district to resign from their party and Government posts within a month, as it is against democratic practices.

Talking to newspersons here today, the district secretary of the party, M.V. Ramana, and the State secretary of AP Rythu Sangham, K. Ramakrishna, said the PW threat to the TDP and BJP leaders to quit their posts, right from the sarpanch to the MP level, was against the interests of the people.

They reasoned that the leaders were elected by the people democratically and their resignation would enable the police to suppress people in the villages. They asked the PW to rethink their decision.

The CPI leaders observed that the PW had issued the ultimatum, as the State and Central Governments had been neglecting the people's problems. They suggested that the PW take up movements against the anti-people policies of the Governments in a democratic way, as was being done by the CPI and other Left parties.

Saying that people had been facing a host of problems due to the policies of the State and Central Governments, the CPI leaders said they would fight the Government on the problems along with the Left and other democratic parties.

The agriculture sector had been forced into a crisis as a result of Government policies, they pointed out. Farm workers were living in miserable conditions in the absence of wage work, farmers were committing suicide due to debt burden resulting from crop failure and unemployment had increased alarmingly, the CPI leaders noted. They sought to know what what steps the Cabinet Sub-Committee had taken against drought. They charged the Government with not taking up any relief measures.

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