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CPI (M) to campaign against price rise

Staff Correspondent

Demand to strengthen public distribution network

SHIMLA: The Himachal Pradesh State Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has demanded strengthening of the public distribution network in the State and immediate intervention by the Government to check unbridled rise in the prices of essential commodities.

The Left party is engaged in a door-to-door campaign against the recent price increases and is also organising public meetings in all major suburbs of the town.

The party, which has already distributed more than 100,000 leaflets, has launched the campaign in all districts of the State, said Tikender Singh, State Secretariat member, here on Friday.

The party has stated that therehas been a hundred per cent increase in the prices of vital commodities like wheat, flour, rice and sugar and other basic food providing nutrition and protein like pulses have gone beyond the reach of the common man. "It has not only affected the lower working class but also the so-called middle class."

The party has squarely blamed the economic reforms initiated after 1991 for this situation.

"The NDA Government supported the reforms after 1998 and now the Congress is following the path seriously and taking the reforms to a logical conclusion. The Government has surrendered everything to the market forces and they are deciding the prices in the open market," alleged the Left.

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