In its first ever huge public meeting in the north Telangana, the CPI (M) has given a call to people to be prepared to wage struggles against what it called the anti-people and anti-farmer policies of the Centre and State Governments.
Addressing a meeting here on Wednesday the party National general secretary Seetharam Yechuri said that in the Narendra Modi-led NDA Government people were burdened with the rise in prices of all essential commodities and “financial attacks” of corporates.
Expressing serious concern over the growing crisis in agriculture he said that over the last one year suicides by farmers rose by 26 per cent as revealed by none other than the Government agencies. Farmers were steeply mired in problems as they were not getting remunerative price for their crops and institutional loans at affordable interest rates, he added.
Listing out the problems confronted by the country the Rajya Sabha Member said that youth were not getting employment as new factories were not coming up and the existing being closed down. If governments of the day provided quality education, healthcare and employment to the needy the nation would get strengthened automatically, he said.
Coming down heavily on Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s administration Mr. Yechuri said that the former was taking the decisions against the aspirations and expectations of people while ignoring his promises if the new State of Talangana was carved out and he was voted to power.
The party State secretary Tammineni Veerabhadram said that the TRS Government dashed the hopes of people who fought for the separate State within its 15-month rule.
It failed to keep any of its core promises such as double bedroom houses, three acre land to Dalits and Tribes, KG to PG free education, 12 per cent reservation to Muslims and at least one job to each household. Party cadres earlier took out an impressive rally from Gandhi Chowk to the venue.
