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Separatist trend, offshoot of globalisation: CPI (M)

Staff Reporter

‘Masses divided into different groups for the benefit of few’

— Photo: Mohd. Arif

Lal salaam: CPI(M) State committee member Sudha Bhaskar and Medak committee secretary Chukka Ramulu offering salute at the party’s district meet in Sangareddy on Saturday.

Sangareddy: Communist Party of India (Marxist) State committee member Sudha Bhaskar said that the increasing separatist trend in the country including Telangana is the result of unabated globalisation that aims at dividing the masses into different groups for the benefit of few.

Addressing the representatives body here on Saturday during the ongoing three-day tenth district party meet, he cited the examples of division of Mala and Madigasand the industrial workers by recruiting more and more contract labour. He called upon the party workers to counter such tendencies by uniting the people once again through mass movements.

Enlisting the issues that the Communists should fight for, Sudha Bhaskar said that all those governments that subscribed to the World Bank-sponsored policies failed to retain power except in Gujarat. He pointed out that Bharatiya Janata Party, through its communal and pro-rich agenda, has been coming back to power in that State. He urged the party workers to brace themselves to counter efforts of the right wing organisations to benefit from the Ram Setu issue. He attributed the recent hike in property tax in municipalities and efforts to meter the water connections in the State as a result of diktats of the World Bank.

Resolutions passed

The second day’s deliberation of the district meet passed two major resolutions concerning the district. District committee secretary Chukka Ramulu and member B. Mallesh introduced resolutions demanding 125 tmcft of Godavari water for the district and allocation of Manjira water through Singur entirely for the district’s drinking and irrigation purposes. The resolutions were unanimously passed.

Earlier the party offered condolences to the deceased party leaders, workers and politicians from other parties who passed away in the last three years of time.

The meeting also commended and felicitated all the eleven peasants from Devarapalli village of Jharasangham mandal who participated in the Bhooporatam and were arrested by the police. All the eleven were released on Saturday from the district jail.

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