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CPI(M) plans stir against Bush visit

Staff Correspondent

SHIMLA: The Himachal Pradesh State Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has decided to organise month-long protests "to oppose imperialism and the visit of U.S. President George Bush to India".

The party would mobilise more than 1,000 activists for the protest in Delhi and organise seminars, talks and street plays all over the State. On March 23, the martyrdom day of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev, the party will observe "anti-imperialist" day.

Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, the State Committee members Sanjay Chauhan, Tikender Panwar and Jagat Ram said more than 1 lakh people, both military and civil, have been killed in Iraq by the US forces. The entire infrastructure of Iraq has been collapsed. The unemployment rate is more than 50 percent. The US has allowed loot of the country by its multinational corporations as majority of the contracts are being given to them under the name of reconstruction, they said.

After Iraq, the Bush administration is targeting Iran and North Korea and has termed them as the axis of evil. Mr. Bush is using nuclear issue as a weapon against both these countries, they said, adding that the US has deployed over 10,000 nuclear warheads, which can even end life on the planet any moment.

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