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Strengthen people’s movement: CPI(M)

BANGALORE: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has appealed to the voters to strengthen the people’s movement in the State and elect only those candidates who will join the people’s movement.

The “appeal document” released by the party has stated that “it is felt that the new Assembly should have enough pro-people voice to raise those issues that affect the common people”.

The appeal document has mentioned several points, including checking rise in prices of essential commodities, universalising Public Distribution System, creation of price stabilisation fund for agricultural produce, halting acquisition of agricultural lands for industrialisation and roll back of the amendments brought to the APMC Act.

Analysing the appeal document, State secretary of the CPI(M) V.J.K. Nair has stated that there is no other party than the CPI(M) that had the interests of the common man, workers and farmers on the top of the agenda.

Mr. Nair later speaking to The Hindu said the party has fielded 11 candidates.

In the first phase of the elections, the party will contest in Bagepalli in Chikballapur district where the former MLA G.V. Sriram Reddy was in the fray, Gowribidanur also in Chikballapur district (G. Siddagangappa), Kolar Gold Fields in Kolar district (P. Thangaraj), Doddaballapur, Bangalore Rural district (R. Chandra Tejaswi), Krishnarajapuram in Bangalore Urban district (Gowramma). In the second phase of the elections, the party will contest from Vijayanagar in Bellary district (D. Venkataramana), Mangalore South in Dakshina Kannada district (Yeshwanth Maroli), Mangalore, also in Dakshina Kannada district (K. Yadava Shetty), Baindoor in Udupi district (U. Das Bhandari), and in third phase Gulburga Rural in Gulburga district (Maruthi Manpade) and Chincholi (Scheduled Castes Reserved) in Gulburga district (Siddartha Tamakunta).

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