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CPI(M) alleges irregularities in rice distribution

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Party vows to carry forward struggle against communalism

CHENNAI: The State unit of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has decided to carry forward struggles on its own and along with other left and democratic organisations against the “anti-people policies” of the State and Central Governments.

State secretary of the CPI (M) N. Varadarajan said in a statement here on Friday that the State committee of the party held in Kanyakumari on June 28 and 29 had made an appraisal of the performance of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) Government and adopted a resolution.

Though the DMK Government had extended some concessions, it had been implementing most of the economic policies of the United Progressive Alliance Government. People’s overall opposition to these policies in the country had its impact in the State also, it said.

Referring to the efforts of the DMK Government to fulfil some of the poll promises of the ruling party, the CPI (M) alleged that there had been irregularities in the distribution of rice and various other welfare programmes in several districts.

It also called for necessary steps to “reverse the trend of officials conniving with the ruling party and ensure that the benefits of the welfare schemes fully reached the people.”

On the State Government’s wasteland distribution programme, the CPI (M) said the DMK’s poll promise had not crossed the initial stages. Though the DMK and the AIADMK had publicly declared that there were 50 lakh acres of wasteland in the State, only one lakh acre had been distributed to the landless poor so far, it added.

The CPI (M) welcomed the programme which was in contrast to the previous AIADMK Government’s attempts to “hand over the wastelands to private institutions.”

The Government had the responsibility to take over vast stretches of lands under the occupation of influential persons and re-distribute them to the landless, the resolution said.

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