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Mend policies or face public wrath: CPI

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D. Raja

HYDERABAD: The Communist Party of India has asked the United Progressive Alliance Government, which has completed three years in office, to solve issues of common man or face serious political consequences in the coming elections.

Addressing a workshop of the party's political education wing members here on Wednesday, he said that people were disillusioned with the United Progressive Alliance coalition's economic policies.

"The United Progressive Alliance should understand that the Bharatiya Janata Party's victory in Punjab and Uttarakhand is not because of its policies, but because of the Government's failure in addressing issues of the common man."

`A mixed bag'

Mr. Raja said the three years of the UPA governance was a "mixed bag" with a majority of people's aspirations yet to be fulfilled. People expected concrete action from the UPA Government and not academic interpretation of their problems.

Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram's claim of 9.2 per cent GDP growth had no meaning for the `aam admi' whose condition had not improved. While there were achievements like implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme and Right to Information Act, the crisis in the agriculture sector deepened after the UPA came to power.

Charge refuted

Refuting the charge that the Left was wielding power without responsibility, he said the Left had no power as it was extending support from outside. But, it would keep highlighting public issues.

He said several countries in Europe were likely to experience problems related to caste and religious intolerance in the coming days.

Though the West wanted absolute free movement of capital across the world coupled with restrictions on human labour, migration of human resources from India continued to

be rampant and it was taking along the differences.

"This is evident from the themes of the films that are coming these days.

Films like `Namaste London' show the integration of Indian community with the West, but they also have the message of differences within them," Mr. Raja said.

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