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Government not following CMP, says Brinda

Allahabad: Expressing displeasure over “claims of low inflation amid rising prices of essential commodities,” the CPI(M) on Tuesday alleged that the UPA government was not moving in the direction mandated by the Common Minimum Programme.

“It is absurd to claim that inflation has been brought down when the prices of rice, wheat, vegetables, oil and other essential commodities were soaring. The government seems to have forgotten that its dream of becoming a world power cannot be fulfilled as long as its people reel under abject poverty,” CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat told PTI here.

Pointing out that the Left Front had agreed to support the UPA government at the Centre on the basis of a Common Minimum Programme, she said the ruling coalition “was certainly not moving in the direction mandated by the CMP.”

“A case in point is the Tribal Bill, where the government has subverted the Parliament’s will by failing to notify the rules a year after the Bill was passed by the House,” she said.

Similarly, Ms. Karat claimed, despite the CMP’s emphasis on the unorganised sector, the government has failed to devise a single scheme for the welfare of those who form part of it or allocate a single paisa for their welfare. “This is a criminal neglect of the unorganised sector, which according to an estimate, comprises nearly 77 per cent of our population and includes people earning less than Rs. 20 a day,” she said. — PTI

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