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“Aam aadmi left in the lurch”

New Delhi: The four Left parties on Wednesday accused the Congress leadership of failing to keep its promise to ameliorate the conditions of the aam aadmi — the common man.

In a joint statement issued after formally snapping ties with the UPA coalition government, they charged that by “pursuing a neo-liberal agenda the government is following the same policies of the previous BJP government.”

“These policies were squarely responsible for the distressing spectacle of agrarian crisis, farmers’ suicides, mass poverty, price rise and unemployment. This is in stark contrast to the obscene growth of billionaires and the super-rich.”

They said that after four years of UPA rule the people were groaning under high prices.

“The government has increased the prices of petrol and diesel seven times in the last four years.”

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