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‘Convene Parliament to discuss pension issue’

Bangalore: Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member and MP Sitaram Yechury on Sunday demanded that the United Progressive Alliance Government convene a session of Parliament to discuss privatisation of pension scheme, insurance sector and allowing foreign banks into India.

Inaugurating Suri Bhavan, named after the CPI(M) leader the late S.Suryanarayana Rao at Udaya Nagar in K.R. Puram, Mr.Yechury said that the UPA Government had started discussions on the issues outside Parliament and implementing one by one the moment his party withdrew support to it.

Earlier, Mr. Yechury inaugurated a blood donation camp organised by the Comrade S. Suryanarayana Rao 84th Birth Anniversary Committee at St. Joseph`s College. Yashoda Suryanarayana Rao, wife of the veteran trade union leader; V.J.K. Nair, State secretary of the CPI (M), and G.N. Nagaraj, member of the State unit of CPI (M), were present.

Mr. Yechury said that his party was opposing the UPA on three counts and they were its support to the U.S. imperialist designs, nuclear deal, economic policies and communalism. He said that his party wanted to build a third alternative which would maintain equidistance from the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliances in the country.

Refuting that the Left Government in West Bengal had been isolated on the Singur issue, Mr. Yechury said that all the non-Left parties such as the BJP, Congress, naxalites, NGOs have come together to weaken the Left.

Explaining the nuclear deal, he said India had to spend Rs. 2.2 lakh crore for generating 20,000 MW of nuclear power at the rate of Rs. 11 crore, a MW, whereas it required only Rs. 60,000 crore through thermal, gas or hydel generation.

Mr. Nair said that the Committee had plans to launch a movement demanding a minimum monthly wage/salary of Rs. 10,000 to around 17 lakh of the 20 lakh workers in Bangalore.

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