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CPI (M) protests over rising prices

SHIMLA: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) organised protests all over Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday against rising prices and “anti-people policies” of the State Government and the Centre.

Hundreds of CPI (M) activists took part in demonstrations at Shimla, Rampur, Bhawa Nagar, Rohru and Theog areas of the district, said Sanjay Chauhan, district secretary of the party.

Similar demonstrations would follow in the days to come in other districts of the State, he said.

The party’s State secretary and Central Committee member Rakesh Singha addressed a public meeting in Rampur.

In Shimla, a dharna was held followed by a procession through Lower Bazaar that culminated into a public meeting at Naaz. The meeting was addressed by Tikender Singh Panwar, Member of the CPI (M) State Secretariat, and other local leaders.

The CPI (M) has charged that the price rise in recent times has reached alarming proportions because of the neo-liberal policies adopted and very conscientiously followed both by the Congress and the BJP. “It is because of these policies that the essential food items, which were earlier regulated, were freed from controls and kept directly under the supervision of market forces,” it alleged.

To make matters worse, “the Government has virtually dismantled the public distribution system for essential commodities, which acted as a buffer for holding the prices. Now the BJP government in the State has even reduced the compressed PDS quota”, the CPI (M) alleged.

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