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Himachal CPI (M) protests against price rise

SHIMLA: The Himachal unit of the Communist party of India (Marxist) organised massive protest rallies and demonstrations in the State on Wednesday against the rise in prices of essential commodities and growing corruption in public life.

Reports of protests have come from Hamirpur, Dharamshala, Solan, Bhawanagar (Kinnaur), Nirmond (Outer Seraj), Theog, Rohroo, Ner Chowk (Balh) and Janjehli (Chachyot) in Mandi district.

The party said the campaign against price rise will continue and rallies will be organised on Thursday in Joginder Nagar and Karsog and on Saturday in Una, Chamba and Golthai, the industrial belt of Bilaspur district, State party secretary Rakesh Singha said.

Challenging the neo-liberal policies of the Manmohan Singh-led UPA II at the Centre, the CPI (M) said this economic framework has collapsed the world over and the common man has revolted against the rulers who have been implementing the US guided neo-liberal economic policies. This has happened in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Jordan, Bahrain and Algeria in the recent days.

It added that the only method to control rising prices is by increasing State control on all essential commodities. The Government must stop forward and futures trading in food grains and pulses and strengthen the public distribution system by providing sufficient ration to people to the quantum of 35 kg per month at Rs.2 per kg, the party stated

The Central Government, it said, was prepared to decontrol diesel and LPG prices even after the petrol prices had risen by Rs.10 per litre. Attacking the BJP Government in the State, the CPI (M) said it was shocking that when the common man was already over-burdened, the State Government had decided to reduce the ration for the Above Poverty Line families from the public distribution system.

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