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Socialism only answer to country’s problems: MP

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‘Fight against communalism and usher in a new society’

CHIKMAGALUR: S. Sudhakar Reddy, MP, said on Friday that socialism was the only answer to the problems being faced by the country.

Inaugurating the 20th State conference of the Communist Party of India (CPI) here, Mr. Reddy urged the working class to fight against communalism and usher in a new society.

Stating that farmers were committing suicide in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka owing to increase in prices of fertilizers and pesticides, he said that the prices of processed goods were increasing every year while those of farm produce remained stagnant. He blamed it on the “anti-people” policies of the Government.

Reiterating that the Bharatiya Janata Party should be prevented from coming to power, he said the Congress was also a bourgeois party.

Though his party supported it at the Centre, it did not hesitate from objecting to many of its policies, he said.

Ridiculing the opportunistic politics of the former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda, Mr. Reddy said that Mr. Gowda would not hesitate to form an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party after the next elections to the Legislative Assembly if there was a need.

Siddanagouda Patil, secretary of the State unit of CPI; Anantha Subba Rao and M.C. Narasimhan, president and vice-president of the State unit of All India Trade Union Congress; were among those present.

B. Amjad, general secretary of the district unit of the CPI, welcomed the gathering.

A procession was taken out in the city before the conference began.

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