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`Anti-people policies' draw flak

Staff Reporter

Price hike calls for a strong movement against UPA Government: AIDWA leader

STRONG WORDS: AIDWA leader S. Punyavathi speaking at a meeting in Anantapur on Tuesday.

ANANTAPUR: The UPA Government at the Centre should stick to the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) while taking policy decisions, AIDWA and CPI (M) leader S. Punyavathi said here on Tuesday.

Speaking at a street-corner meeting in Adarshnagar here as part of the party's nation-wide campaign against the "anti-people policies" of the UPA Government she said it was in place only due to the people's verdict against liberalised economic polices and communal forces.

But, the Congress-led Government had taken several "anti-people decisions" during the last two years, she alleged.

The ever-increasing prices of commodities and fuel called for a strong movement against the Government. The Government had badly failed in supplying essential commodities to people, she said.

Job scheme

Even the Employment Guarantee Scheme launched with high hopes was also being neglected by the Centre.

The Government was inviting foreign investment, while privatising profit-making public sector units and airports.

Instead of protecting the employees by implementing the labour laws sincerely the Government appeared to be bent upon making them jobless.

The country's security was at stake due to the Government's policy to open our atomic sector to the US in the name of nuclear cooperation, she lamented.

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