JAIPUR: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has described the two years of the Bharatiya Janata Party Government in Rajasthan as a period of oppression of the working class, the farmers and the common people.

The Government led by Vasundhara Raje failed to keep most of the promises it made to the public in the manifesto and worked only to help the land mafia, liquor mafia and the anti-social elements, it charged.

In a statement on the occasion of the second anniversary of the BJP Government in Rajasthan the State Secretariat of the CPI (M) said that during the two-year period as many as 12 farmers were killed in police firing while thousands were jailed for demanding irrigation water in Sriganganagar and Hanumnagarh districts.

The farmers were provided only six hours of power instead of the promised eight-hour supply even while a 30-40 per cent increase in power rates were effected, it said.

CPI (M) State secretary Vasudev said the two-year period of the BJP Government was replete with incidents of police oppression including custodial deaths, atrocities against Dalits and women, and exploitation of the working class.

While the law and order situation deteriorated, the Muslims and Christian communities in the State found themselves under attack from the fundamentalist groups, he charged.

The period found steep increase in unemployment with closure and lay-off of the factories and privatisation of the public sector units, Prof. Vasudev alleged. Barring the appointment of teachers, all the promises made by the party before coming to power, including the re-opening of the closed factories, lifting the ban on appointments in Government departments, providing jobs to more than one lakh youth and waiving of farm loans, have not been fulfilled, he pointed out.

"The party with a difference, which promised a Government to transform Rajasthan into a developed State, has also failed to perform due to its inner squabbles,'' Prof.Vasudev charged. The instances of BJP workers resorting to violence at their own party office here and cases of attacks on the party leaders by party men elsewhere were indicative of the fall of the BJP, he said.

"Now the members of the Cabinet are seemingly quarrelling over the spoils of governance,'' he said referring to the differences in the Raje Cabinet over execution of schemes like IT the corridor and SEZ.

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