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CPI (M) blames State for adopting anti-people approach

BHUBANESWAR: Orissa unit of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Wednesday blamed the Naveen Patnaik Government for adopting a pro-corporate and anti-people approach while facilitating industrialisation in the State.

At a press conference here, secretary of the CPI (M) State Committee Janardan Pati said that the present Biju Janata Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party government had not done any industrialisation that would have helped the people of the State.

“Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is just creating a hype by facilitating setting up of some pollution-causing sponge iron industries,” Mr. Pati said. The present government had not set up even a single food processing industry or consumer goods manufacturing facility so far, he added.

The CPI (M) leader further criticised the coalition government for allowing the loot of the State’s mineral resources by big private companies in the name of industrialisation.

“Giving iron ore mines on lease to private companies by collecting a paltry sum of Rs. 26 as royalty per each tonne of iron ore is not revenue generation for the State when the companies were selling the same ore at a minimum of Rs. 2,600 per tonne,” he observed.

“The current industrialisation process was aimed at benefiting private companies, contractors, bureaucrats and some politicians,” he said.

Giving details of the discussions held in the party’s State conference that concluded at Cuttack on Monday, Mr. Pati further criticised the alliance government for ignoring the interests of the tribals, farmers, women and those working in the unorganised sector.

He came down heavily on the government for claiming that Orissa had become a revenue surplus State. “The claim carries no meaning when the government had abolished 47,000 jobs and kept 2 lakh posts vacant, including 1,31,000 posts in education sector alone,” he said.

Mr. Pati announced that his party, along with other like-minded political parties, would launch a State-wide movement against the anti-people policies of the alliance government in the coming days.

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