GUNTUR: Nine Communist parties will resort to an agitation in the State if Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy does not openly discuss the agreements the Government entered into with the World Bank, CPI State Secretary K. Narayana has said.

At a press conference here on conclusion of the Rythu Rakshana Prachara Jatha, he alleged that the Government was trying to hide something related to the agreement and criticized the World Bank Director's comments on State budgetary allocations for Jalayagnam (irrigation project). "Who is he to suggest to the Government to spend less on irrigation projects and pay attention to reforms," he questioned.

The way Health, Education, Cooperative and other loans were being taken there seemed to be a number of conditionalities and if it was not the case, the Chief Minister should take all Opposition parties into confidence in this regard as "it is not Chief Minister's personal agreement with the World Bank." The TDP had also done the same during its regime and the Congress was following in its footsteps, he added. On November 5 all the nine communist parties would meet in Hyderabad and decide future course of action.

Crop loans

The CPI leader demanded waiver of crop loans up to Rs.1 lakh to farmers and providing them unlimited crop loan to meet full input costs, which, according to him, would dissuade them from approaching moneylenders.

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