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Centre indulging in communal politics: CPI

By Our Staff Reporter

JAMMU APRIL 26. The Communist Party of India has charged the BJP-led NDA Government at the Centre with worsening the conditions in the country by indulging in communal politics.

Talking to presspersons here, the CPI national executive member, Amarjit Kaur, said: "The last five years have been the worst for the country as the BJP-led Government's sectarian agenda has resulted in the rise of communalism".

Expressing her party's concern over the Centre's policies, she alleged that secularism and other Indian values were in danger. People had to be educated about the misrule of the Government so that they voted out the Government in the next general election.

On the economic front, Ms. Kaur alleged that the Centre was following anti-worker polices. It had closed down six-lakh public sector undertakings under the pretext of downsizing, economic reforms and streamlining. This had led to the retrenchment of about two crore workers.

She warned that unemployment and poverty were the breeding grounds for terrorism as the unemployed youth could be exploited by vested elements.

Meanwhile, the Panthers Party, a partner in the People's Democratic Party-led coalition Government, refused to hold talks with the Centre's interlocutor, N.N. Vohra, without any formal invitation.

The party chief, Bhim Singh, said here that the terms and conditions of the Vohra mission were not clear and that the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, had failed to stand by his assurances that Mr. Vohra would come to Kashmir with invitation for talks to all the parties and important leaders.

"My party will hold talks only when the agenda of the Centre's interlocutor is clear and an invitation is extended to us," he said.

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