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Maruti Manpade takes part in protest rally AITUC also takes out a procession Chitradurga: State Secretariat Member of Communist Party of India (Marxist) Maruti Manpade has alleged that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party was keen on ensuring the welfare of cattle than the people. He was referring to the Government's proposed decision of banning cattle slaughter in the State. Participating in a protest rally organised by the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) in association with various labour organisations here on Tuesday, Mr. Manpade alleged that the Government, instead of protecting the lives of poor people, was caring for the lives of the cattle. “In a recent incident in the Beggars' Colony in Bangalore, many died and many were been hospitalised. The Government should care more for such poor and homeless people than wandering cattle,” he remarked. About the proposed law, he said that with the new law to ban cattle slaughter, the BJP Government was trying to curtail the food habits, mainly of the backward classes and minorities. If Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa has real concern for the backward classes and the poor, he should first implement a scheme to provide rice at Rs. 2 a kg as promised during the election, Mr. Manpade said. He also criticised the Union Government for failing to control the rising prices of essential commodities. Accusing the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government of being pro-industrialist and investors, the Communist leader said that the Union Government was framing policies which only deprived the poor of better living opportunities. “Under the anti-people concept of public-private partnership (PPP), the Government has been planning to privatise several public sector units that have remained the backbone for an innumerable number people of the middle and lower middle class sections,” he said. Mr. Manpade demanded that the Government drop such plans that harmed the interest of the common people, and helped only the elite in society. Earlier in the day, AITUC took out a rally demanding that the Union Government create a fund to provide social security to workers in the unorganised sector.
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