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CPI(M) asks people to reject BJP, TDP, Congress
By Our Staff Reporter
ANANTAPUR, JAN. 12. The 20th State Convention of the CPI(M) has called upon people to counter communal and capitalist forces threatening the unity, solidarity and economic independence of the country. The meet asked people to oppose the BJP-TDP combine as it had been adopting ``communal and anti-people policies.''
In the political resolution adopted by the meet here on Saturday, the party alleged that the Congress had lost confidence of people and created space for communal forces. Besides, it had also opened gates for the multi-national companies to ruin the local economy.
Giving details about the political resolution, party leaders Koratala Satyanarayana and Y. Venkateswara Rao said the Left parties had succeeded to some extent in preventing the communal forces usurping the power. But ``opportunistic parties'' like the TDP had defected from democratic forces and had been enabling the BJP to stay in power, they alleged.
The BJP was not even sparing sectors like education, media, arts and defence from saffronisation, the party said. The party had left all these areas as pawn in the hands of the Sangh Parivar, the party charged. Finding fault with the BJP's policy on the Kashmir issue, the CPI(M) convention felt that it was enabling the U.S. to intervene in the issue.
Asking people and the party workers to wage a relentless fight against communalism, the CPI(M) opposed the fast-track implementation of economic reforms as per the agenda of the World Bank by the Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu.
By implementing ``anti-farmer policies,'' the Central and State Governments were forcing the farmers to commit suicide, the party opined. The TDP Government had ``deceived'' the poor abandoning several welfare programmes meant for them, through which it came to power, the party observed.
The other resolutions included withdrawal of user charges and hike in water charges, stopping commercialisation of education and second generation economic reforms and others.
NDA Govt. fall imminent: Yechuri
Fall of the BJP-led NDA Government at the Centre was very imminent after the coming Assembly elections in four States, the party's Politburo member, Sitaram Yechuri, predicted here on Saturday. He forecast that the BJP and its allies would be defeated by the Left Democratic Front in all the four States.
Participating in a Meet-the-Press programme organised here by the district unit of the AP Union of Working Journalists (APUWJ), he said BJP and its allies had lost all elections faced in 17 States during the last three years. The BJP-led Government might not continue for long at the Centre, he opined.
He stated that CPI(M) was working towards development of a non-BJP and non-Congress alternative political front to lead the country, as the four coalition Governments were toppled by the two parties. Accordingly, a People's Front had been formed with Samajwadi Party and others in Uttar Pradesh to defeat the communal BJP, he said.
Asked whether communalism or corruption was more harmful, he said it was like choosing between the devil and the deep sea.``Both of them are dangerous to the country but communalism is more serious threat to the country,'' he said. In States like Andhra Pradesh where only the TDP-BJP and the Congress were major forces the CPI(M) and other Left parties would like to be the alternative themselves, he stated. Asked what would be approach of his party, if Mr. Chandrababu Naidu deserted the NDA after the coming Assembly elections in four States, he said they would think over working with him if he severed links with the communal BJP and shunned all his anti-people policies.
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