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“UPA government lacks credibility to fight corruption”

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HYDERABAD: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Sunday hit out at the United Progressive Alliance government, saying it lacked credibility to fight corruption. The party advocated inclusion of the Prime Minister in the Lokpal legislation.

“The government does not have much credibility about fighting corruption when all it does is make effort to cover it up'' until forced to act by the Supreme Court and the Comptroller and Auditor-General, CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat said here.

Addressing a press conference at the end of the two-day meeting of the Central Committee, he said the Left parties had the credibility and record to fight against corruption in high places.

He said: “The platform of the Left against corruption requires a comprehensive set of measures which can help curb graft that includes an effective Lokpal legislation that brings the Prime Minister also under its purview, the setting up of a National Judicial Commission to oversee the judiciary, electoral reforms to curb the use of money power and firm measures to break the nexus of big business-ruling politicians and the bureaucracy.”“The fountainhead of corruption today is this corrupt nexus which has flourished under the neo-liberal regime,” the Central Committee noted and said the Left parties would mobilise the people in a struggle to bring about this set of measures. The CPI(M) said it would consult other Left parties to launch a movement demanding measures to curb corruption in high places, unearth black money and repatriate illegal money stashed away abroad.

The party decided to conduct a vigorous political campaign against all measures proposed by the UPA government.

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