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Saturday, Sep 02, 2006

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CPI to launch jatha on September 11

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The State Council of the Communist Party of India (CPI) has planned a State-wide march, Janajagrithi Jatha, to protest against the "corrupt and anti-people policies" of the State Government.

The jatha will be inaugurated in Gulbarga on September 11, and reach Bangalore on September 27, to coincide with the birth anniversary of martyr Bhagat Singh. The CPI has not spared the principal Opposition, the Congress, either.

The State Secretary of the party Siddanagouda said the purpose of the jatha was to expose the "anti-people coalition Government of the Janata Dal (S) and Bharatiya Janata Party, and the rampant corruption in all departments and at all levels of administration." The Government, which was making empty promises, and neglecting the unending woes of farmers, and its anti-worker policies, had failed to implement its own programmes and in managing floods and drought, he said. The parties in power, as well as the Opposition Congress, had failed in safeguarding the interests of the people, the CPI said. It alleged that all three parties were partners in the "corruption spree let loose" in the State. "They are competing with each other in wresting control of all sorts of illegal transactions and unaccounted wealth," Mr. Siddanagouda said The jatha would highlight how all the three parties were responsible for the chaos in the State, he added.

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