[Marxistindia] Left parties statement regarding protests by against anti-people budget

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Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Communist Party of India
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)-Liberation
All India Forward Bloc
Revolutionary Socialist Party
 
February 4, 2020
 
Press Statement
 
The Left parties - CPI(M), CPI, CPI(ML), AIFB and RSP - have issued the
following statement:
 
Nationwide Protests Against Anti-People Budget
February 12 to 18
 
The Left parties will conduct a nationwide protest against the wide range of
anti-people policies contained in this year's budget which will further
squeeze the livelihood conditions of the vast majority of our people. The
Modi government has destroyed the Indian economy, imposing unprecedented
burdens on the people. At the same time, it has been giving concession after
concession to the rich and the corporates, which has widened economic
inequalities amongst our people to levels never seen ever before in
independent India.
 
The Left parties protest actions will highlight the following issues and
demands:
 
1.     Rollback the largescale privatization of national assets including
the disinvestment of LIC, which is a repository of people's lifelong savings
and security.
2.     Against the unprecedented levels of unemployment and retrenchment due
to closure/downsizing of factories; provide for a minimum wage of Rs. 21,000
and adequate unemployment allowance.
3.     Against the deepening agrarian distress demanding one-time loan
waiver for the farmers.
4.     Against the largescale cuts in government spending in crucial areas
like food subsidy (Rs. 75,532 crore); agriculture and allied activities
including fisheries (Rs. 30,683 crores); MNREGA (9,500 crores); social
welfare (Rs. 2,640 crore); urban development (Rs. 5,765 crore); health
(1,169 crores) etc, that will push crores of Indians into poverty, demanding
at least the restoration of earlier levels of spending if not an increase.
 
Such criminal attacks on people's livelihood are being perpetrated at a time
when the Modi government is assaulting our Constitution and dividing our
people by implementing its hardcore Hindutva agenda, CAA-NPR-NRC and
generating an atmosphere of growing hatred and violence among people across
the country. 
 
The Left parties call upon all their state units to organise these week long
protests in accordance with the concrete conditions prevailing in the
states.
 
Sd/-
 
(Sitaram Yechury)                                     
General Secretary, CPI(M)                                   
                                                                   
 
(D. Raja)
General Secretary, CPI
 
(Debabrata Biswas)
General Secretary, AIFB
 
 
(Dipankar Bhattacharya)                
General Secretary, CPI(ML)-Liberation      
 
(Manoj Bhattacharya)
RSP
 

 
 
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