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UPA policies benefiting few, says Dasgupta

Mohammed Iqbal

AITUC to organise march to Parliament

JAIPUR: Senior Communist Party of India leader Gurudas Dasgupta on Sunday blamed the policies of the United Progressive Alliance Government at the Centre for "enrichment of the few and deprivation of the multitude of people" with the majority of promises made in the common minimum programme remaining unfulfilled.

Mr. Dasgupta, who was here to drum up support for a proposed march to Parliament, told reporters that since the Left parties had failed to persuade the Government to abandon its `anti-poor' and `anti-farmer' policies, they had decided to go on an agitation.

There will be a march to Parliament to be organised by the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) on November 23. Mr. Dasgupta said this would be followed by a nation-wide general strike by all trade unions on December 14. Similar strikes were organised recently in the banking, petroleum and coal sectors across the country.

The CPI MP charged that the Central Government was diluting the parliamentary system to enforce its decisions through executive orders. "The Government is openly violating the labour laws and has eliminated food security by its wrong policies leading to a severe agricultural crisis," he said.

Asked about the continuance of Left support to the UPA Government, he said the CPI was exploring the possibility of extracting concessions from the ruling alliance for the people through the proposed agitation. "If the Government still fails to deliver, the Left Front will have to take a harsh decision."

Referring to the farmers' agitation in Gharsana-Raola region of Rajasthan, he said the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Government in the State was insensitive to the plight of the common man and called upon the people to unite and wage a struggle against the ruling party.

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