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AIYF plans anti-war convention

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD Jan. 9. The All India Youth Federation (AIYF) has announced that it will organise an anti-war convention followed by a public rally in Vijaywada on Feb. 2. Speaking to the press here on Thursday, Soni Thengamom, national general secretary, AIYF, said that this was part of the buildup for their national conference to be held in Patna from April 2 to 5.

He said that the AIYF, with "other like-minded organisations'' had been opposing the US' planned war on Iraq as it would kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people and adversely affect the developing countries like India. He criticised the NDA Government for not taking a firm position against the US on this issue as well as on other economic issues.

He declared that the NDA had "cheated'' the youth of the country as it had promised in its election manifesto that it would create one crore jobs every year, but Planning Commission data showed that between 1999 and 2002 the total number of unemployed had actually risen by nearly a crore.

Mr. Thengamom argued that due to the NDA Government's policy of "selling India wholesale'' to private economic interests unemployment was increasing and people were being driven to suicide in desperation. Opposing the Government's economic policy of ''privatising national assets and globalising national markets to MNCs'', he said that the recently concluded Asian Social Forum had amply demonstrated that alternatives to these ''neo-liberal'' economic policies existed.

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