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Left criticises ban order on V.P. Singh's rally

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NEW DELHI: The Left parties on Thursday deplored the decision of the Uttar Pradesh Government to prohibit the holding of a rally at Dadri by the former Prime Minister, V.P. Singh, and the Jan Morcha.

The rally is being organised to take up the issue of land acquisition from farmers at a cheap rate and without adequate compensation, a CPI (M) Central Committee release said.

"The prohibition of the rally and the preventive arrests are undemocratic steps as there was no apprehension of any violence. The democratic right to hold rallies and protest peacefully must be ensured," the statement said.

The CPI strongly condemned the "repressive measures unleashed" by the State Government against people's movement. The party Central Secretariat said that its general secretary A.B. Bardhan and other leaders were also leading the movement of farmers and people of the region who were agitating against the "land grabbing" by the State Government to facilitate big industrial houses to set up power projects in Ghaziabad.

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