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UPA policies anti-people: Pinarayi

ALAPPUZHA: The insistence of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) to the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government at the Centre to stick to the conditions of the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) is aimed at lessening the impact of globalisation on the lives of the common man in India, CPI (M) State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan has said.

Inaugurating a seminar on ‘Globalisation and Women’ organised as part of the 8th State Conference of the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) here on Sunday, Mr. Vijayan said the UPA Government was not interested in protecting the interests of the common man as was evident from its policies.

Stating that globalisation was completely against Indian society, Mr. Vijayan said the first casualty of the so-called breaking down of barriers were women. The Union Government, by amending laws like the Factories Act and others, was supporting multi-nationals who had come into the country as part of globalisation and in turn, making life and working conditions tough for women.

The Government’s right to take decisions, even on public service and welfare policies, was being cut down through conditions like structural adjustments that were laid down by international funding agencies like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The loss of such rights were directly affecting women as several welfare schemes for women were being sabotaged in the cover of structural adjustments, he said. Earlier, addressing a press conference, AIDWA State secretary K.K. Shailaja said the second day of the State conference saw decisions to launch agitations against exploitation of women by capitalist forces, faulty educational policies of the Centre, against invasion of religious and caste fundamentalists and and others.

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