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‘Obama visit may lead to arms race in the region'

JAIPUR: The Marxist Communist Party of India (United) has warned of an arms race in the region in the wake of the recent pact on arms purchase signed between India and the US during the visit of the US President Barack Obama. The agreement signed for military purchases to the tune of 10 million dollars by India would lead to “unhealthy competition in accumulating arms and ammunition in the area,” the party, which is having its second national Party Congress in Jodhpur, observed.

“Now India is not in need of accumulating arms,” said Lyal Puri, general secretary of the party releasing the draft political resolution at Onkar Nagar in Jodhpur on Friday. The release of the draft resolution was followed by discussions which would continue on Saturday as well.

Speaking on the resolution, Mr. Puri said capitalism was getting into more and more crisis and there was no escaping of it as this was inherent in this system. “As Karl Marx pointed out in 1848 the capitalism is trying to escape from the crisis by passing the burden on to the shoulders of the common man and this would lead to further crisis,” he noted.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) came in for some criticism on the opening day of the congress as MCPI (U) leaders -- who mostly are those thrown out of the CPI (M) in the past -- accused it of promoting globalization.

“The CPI (M) was formed after the inner party struggle against revisionism in the CPI. But the same CPI (M) has become the revisionist party implementing policies of globalization,” Mr. Puri charged.

V.B. Cheriyan, a senior member of the party attending the Congress said the election of the new Central Council and the new general secretary would take place on November 14, the concluding day. A public rally is scheduled in Jodhpur on Saturday, he informed.

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