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CPI(M) will highlight BJP’s ‘hate campaign’

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CPI(M) to offer ‘participative development’ model
‘Cow slaughter is an excuse to attack minorities’

BANGALORE: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) will highlight the hate campaign carried out by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) against the minorities and Dalits apart from that party’s nexus with various lobbies and vested interests in the State during the course of its campaign in the ensuing Legislative Assembly elections.

CPI(M) State Secretary V.J.K. Nair told The Hindu that the Assembly elections basically had two issues for the CPI (M) — the hate campaign and the politics of lobbying both played by the BJP.

Giving instances of hate campaigns, Mr. Nair said: “There were many instances of attacks on minorities and dalits which had snatched livelihood of ordinary people and threatened their survival. The attacks were allegedly carried out by the Sangh Parivar on minorities particularly in the pretext of cow slaughter in the coastal areas of the State.”

He said the BJP had imposed a heavy burden on the people by implementing anti-people and anti-working class economic policies when it shared power with the Janata Dal (Secular) in the State. The BJP was responsible for influencing the coalition partner to bring about amendments to the APMC Act which was against the interest of small farmers.

Mr. Nair said the new APMC Act would bring small farmers into direct competition with contract farming propagated by the MNC market leaders.

Other anti-people decisions taken by the BJP included “Akrama Sakrama”, CVS property tax in the BBMP area. Even the State Budget presented by B.S. Yeddyurappa in 2007 was prepared in a way to appease people on caste basis, he alleged.

The party would frame its campaign in the coming elections based on the “participative and sustained” development model for the State.

Mr. Nair said there was a need to re-industrialise the State under new models of development that could generate jobs as well as wealth for the State.Quoting from the recommendations made at the party congress in Coimbatore recently, Mr. Nair said even the Chinese model of SEZs would not work in India. Tax concessions given to companies working inside the SEZ would hurt the other industries; instead new industrial hubs would have to be developed. The SEZs would be one of the issues for the party in the elections.

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