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DYFI plans agitation on May 31

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) proposes to organise an agitation in the State on May 31 to pressure the Union government into “correcting the policies that have led to inflation and price rice.”

In a press release here on Friday, the DYFI State committee said its volunteers would take out processions covering the entire length of the State from May 18 to 28 as a build-up to the agitation. ‘Food, Work, Sovereignty’ is the slogan being highlighted by the organisation.

The DYFI said that there was growing realisation in the country that the Union government’s economic policies and food policy were central to the present inflationary trend and food scarcity in the country. The Manmohan Singh government had slashed Kerala’s rice quota by 90 per cent, creating severe scarcity of rice in the State, it alleged.

Kerala had three Ministers in the Union government, but none of them was doing anything to get the State’s rice quota restored to the earlier level. The Prime Minister had given repeated promises to the delegations that met him in New Delhi to represent the grievance of the State. The promises were yet to be translated into action, the DYFI said.

The Union government had also betrayed the youth of the State by withdrawing a large chunk of job opportunities in the nationalised banks and public sector organisations, the DYFI alleged.

It also accused the Union government of surrendering the economic sovereignty of the country to “American imperialism.”

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