: The ‘good days ahead’ promise (Achche Din) that the Bharatiya Janata Party made prior to the 2014 Parliamentary election seemed to have arrived only for corporate companies and not the common man, Communist Party of India general secretary S. Sudhakar Reddy said on Wednesday.
He was here to inaugurate the party’s 23{+r}{+d}State conference.
The BJP promised to bring back black money, but it did not. It followed the very same policies that the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government followed, perhaps with much more vigour. The BJP affiliates in the Sangh Parivar sought to install statues or Nathuram Godse, spoke of ‘Ghar Vapsi’ programmes and attacked Mahatma Gandhi. In this situation, the CPI, without being deterred by electoral setbacks, would mobilise people to fight the “anti-people” policies of the government, Mr. Reddy said.
National secretary D. Raja said that the CPI would work for Left unity to take on the BJP government, which was keen on bringing in policies that favoured the corporate companies. The protest against the land acquisition bill in New Delhi was one such example.
On the Sri Lankan issue, he said that the Centre should formulate a new policy that would help the Tamils get justice.
G. Ramakrishnan, State Secretary, said the share of agriculture and industry in the State’s gross domestic product (SGDP) had come down during the alternating rule of the two Dravidian parties – the DMK and AIADMK. From 23 per cent in 1991, the share of agriculture in SGDP has come down to 7.76 per cent in 2013-14. Likewise, the share of industry had come down from 33 per cent to 28 per cent in the same period. But the contribution of service sector had grown from 44 per cent to 63 per cent.
CPI State secretary D. Pandian said that it was time for the Left parties to fight together against the corporate-communalism combine.
The party passed a resolution to oppose communalism, promote secularism, protect minorities and establish the rights of the working class.
