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CPI leaders canvass for party candidates

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: Prominent members of the Communist Party of India campaigned on Saturday for their candidates contesting the forthcoming municipal polls in the Capital.

Addressing a public meeting at Sitapuri, CPI National Council member Dinesh Varshney expressed anguish over pathetic living conditions of the toiling masses even after several decades of Independence. He said urbanisation in Delhi had been unplanned and land mafia was being given patronage by vested interests. He also alleged that politicians from the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party were in collusion with many in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and other civic agencies leading to rampant corruption.

Prof. Varshney charged that the two main parties had commercialised education and health depriving the poor and lower and middle-income groups from getting quality services.

CPI Secretary Amarjeet Kaur, Prof. Varshney and Subodh Malakar also campaigned for Noor Mohammad, the CPI candidate from Bhatti Mines. Speaking at a meeting, Ms. Kaur deplored the neo-liberal reforms being pursued by the BJP and the Congress which had led to a situation where the State had abdicated its responsibilities for providing health, education, water, electricity, sanitation and cheap housing to the poor and homeless.

The day's third public meeting was held at Shakurpur where Meena Kumari is the CPI candidate. The leaders pointed out that the infrastructure in many of the MCD areas remained poor and the BJP and the Congress, who have been at the helm, had not paid heed to it.

Meanwhile, Ms. Kaur has asked the State Election Commission to check free flow of liquor in some areas to lure voters. She alleged that the candidates of the BJP, the Congress and some other parties were violating the code of conduct for the elections by distributing money among residents and plying several vehicles.

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