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CPI(M) demands measures to check price rise

BERHAMPUR: Over 300 CPI(M) activists courted arrest in front of the Berhampur tehsil office on Thursday protesting against the continuing price rise. It was part of the nation wide agitation of the party against price rise.

The party activists also held similar protest demonstrations against price rise in other places of Ganjam district like Ganjam and Sorada. In the city CPI(M) activists led by its city committee president, Basanta Nanda took out a procession from old bus stand. They shouted slogans and also held placards through which they blamed both UPA Government at the Centre and the BJD-BJP Government in the State for the rising burden of price rise. The rally of CPI(M) workers reached the local tehsil office where they courted arrest.

The CPI(M) activists demanded marketing of 15 essential items like cereals, edible oils and sugar to be brought under the Public Distribution System (PDS). State secretariat member Ali Kishore Patnaik, who led the party workers in the protest march at Ganjam town felt reduction of price of petroleum products was an immediate need to stop price rise of essential goods.

They demanded strict legal action against nefarious traders who were resorting to hoarding to increase price of essential goods in market.

BHUBANESWAR: Hundreds of workers of the Communist Party of India(Marxist) staged a massive agitation in Bhubaneswar demanding immediate measures to curb price rise.

Braving the scorching sun, the protestors marched down the Mahatma Gandhi Marg where they were stopped by a large posse of policemen.

They raised slogans against both the Centre and the State governments for their alleged failure to check the rising prices of various essential commodities.

Similar agitational programmes were organised by the party at around 40 places across the States including Cuttack, Balasore, Rourkela, Puri, Khruda, Bhawanipatna and Mayurbhanj.

The party leaders demanded that the public distribution system be streamlined without delay and the Government take immediate steps to make essential items available through the PDS outlets.

The existing system of forward trading in various agricultural produces should be stopped forthwith, they demanded.

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