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Election results to have national impact: Pinarayi

Staff Reporter

Says the Left will play the role of a corrective force

KOLLAM: Communist Party of India (Marxist) State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan has said that the Assembly elections in the State have national connotations and importance.

He was addressing an election convention for the Left Democratic Front (LDF) candidate in Kollam, P.K. Gurudasan, on Tuesday.

Mr. Vijayan said that it was because of the sweeping victory registered in Kerala during the last Lok Sabha elections that the LDF was able to play an important role at the Centre.

An LDF victory in the Assembly elections would only complement that role. Hence this election was crucial, the CPI(M) State secretary said.

Some of the issues in which the Left parties had strongly intervened were the anti-labour policies pursued by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government at the Centre. As a result, the Centre was compelled to take corrective measures, he said.

The Left MPs had also strongly opposed the foreign policies of the UPA Government.

The Left would not allow the UPA Government to deviate from the non-aligned foreign policy of the country initiated by Jawaharlal Nehru. The UPA had also promised a neutral foreign policy in the Common Minimum Programme.

But the UPA Government, soon after assuming power, started following a foreign policy of surrendering to the imperialist forces, he alleged.

Inaugurating the convention, CPI State secretary Veliyom Bhargavan said that after winning 100 seats in the last Assembly elections, the UDF Government coolly forgot the people of the State.

The UDF-led rule was one which was biased towards the rich.

Even the basic Constitutional duty of maintaining law and order was ignored.

As a result, the law and order situation in the State worsened and State went into the grip of the mafia.

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