Members of the Communist Party of India-Marxist staged a protest here on Friday condemning the anti-people policies of the Central Government.
Led by district secretary V. Ramamoorthy, the protesting cadre said that people who voted for the BJP government felt cheated because the promised jobs were not coming. Instead, prices of essential commodities had increased and there was no sign of the government retrieving black money. By presenting fudged statistics to the people, the BJP government tried to deceive the people. The Tamil Nadu government was no different.
At the time of the 2014 Parliamentary election, the BJP promised that if it were to be voted to power it would control prices. But today, the prices had skyrocketed. ‘Tur dal’ that sold at Rs. 70 a kg two years ago was now priced at Rs. 240 a kg, a kg of tomato had touched Rs. 100 now and in the last three months vegetable prices had increased 120 per cent. The price of sugar had tripled and all this led to the common man shelling more money out of his pocket.
The BJP claimed that Prime Minister’s foreign visits brought foreign direct investment into the country and that it led to job creation. But the reality was very different. Young people were either unemployed or underemployed. Plus the jobs that were being created were not permanent. Most of those were temporary or contractual in nature.
The CPM cadre also said that the jobs in labour-intensive sectors like textile, spinning mills, leather, transport, etc. had fallen.
