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CPI(M)'s concern over growing unemployment

By Our Staff Correspondent

SHIMLA, DEC.8. The Himachal unit of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has criticised the Chief Minister, Virbhadra Singh's statement that the Marxist Governments of West Bengal and Kerela have also signed the controversial fiscal reforms MoU with the Union Government.

Addressing a press conference on the eve of the party's State Conference, CPI(M) leaders said it was a total lie and the Marxist Governments had given their own alternative fiscal reform plans to the Union Government. But in the case of Himachal it was a total surrender and the fall-out of signing the MoU had already started showing in, they said.

In a joint press conference, Tikender Panwar, secretary of the party's local committee, Sanjay Chauhan of the Kissan Sabha and Jagat Ram of the Centre of Indian Trade unions (CITU) expressed their deep concern over "the increasing unemployment and the anti-public sector and anti-employee nature of the MoU signed recently by the State Government".

"According to an estimate, the unemployment figures would now touch 16 lakhs in a small State like Himachal," they said.

The Left leaders informed that the 12th State Conference of the CPI(M) would be held in this hill town from December 10 to 12.

There will also be a mass public meeting before the conference deliberations and Sitaram Yechury, Polit Bureau member, W.R. Wardharajan, state party in-charge and a Central Committee member, and Rakesh Singha, former Shimla MLA, will be the main speakers at the rally.

The three-day conference would dwell on issues confronting the working class and the people of the State, said CPI(M) leaders.

The rapid changes in the international situation and the unipolarity of the world that has posed innumerable challenges before the progressive movement of the country and the political situation in the State with incessant changes taking place in the socio-economic conditions of the people would be studied and discussed, they said.

The tasks before the party for the ensuing three years would be determined on the basis of various political and organisational reports.

In all, 176 elected delegates from different districts will take part in the conference and a new State Committee will be elected.

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