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Protest rally against `anti-people' policies

Staff Correspondent

Bidar: Some Left organisations held a protest rally in Bidar on Tuesday against what they called the "anti-people, anti-poor policies" of the Janata Dal (Secular)-Bharatiya Janata Party coalition Government in the State.

The protesters organised a mock funeral procession of Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy and Agriculture and district in-charge Minister Bandeppa Kashempur.

The procession went through the main streets of the city and culminated at the Ambedkar Circle.

The activists later burnt effigies of the two leaders. Karnataka Pranta Raitha Sangha (KPRS) president Maruti Manpade criticised the Government for mismanaging the distribution of ration cards.

This amounts to cheating the people, he said. The State Government should ensure that each poor family gets a below poverty line ration card, he said.

He also alleged that the unit system for distributing foodgrains to card-holding families was aimed at disrupting the lives of the poor.

He demanded that the Government revert to the old system of distributing rations.

Mr. Manpade said Mr. Kumaraswamy and Deputy Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa were busy announcing populist schemes and programmes without taking concrete steps towards the welfare of the people.

Janawadi Mahila Sanghatan State president K. Neela said the State Government had ignored the problems of sugarcane growers in Bidar and Gulbarga districts. Farmers were committing suicide, but the Government was acting as if a problem did not exist, she said.

A sanghatan leader Bharati Kadwad alleged atrocities against women and deprived classes were increasing and that the Government had not taken any steps to stop them.

Communist Party of India (Marxist) district general secretary Vijay Kumar Sonare and KPRS leader R.P. Raja were present.

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