CPI General Secretary for reunification of Left parties

January 20, 2015 01:32 pm | Updated November 02, 2016 07:28 pm IST - HYDERABAD:

Communist Party of India General Secretary Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy in Hyderabad. A File Photo: Photo: Mohammed Yousuf

Communist Party of India General Secretary Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy in Hyderabad. A File Photo: Photo: Mohammed Yousuf

Communist Party of India General Secretary Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy has given call for the re-unification of the Left parties by saying it was the need of the hour.

At a press conference here on Tuesday, on his return from Nagpur where he attended the party's National Council meeting between January 15 and 17, he said that it was agreed that fresh inroads were needed to be made on taking the proposal forward.

“We are confident of progress on this front and the confidence stems from the fact that leaders in the Communist Party of India (Marxist) are now giving a thought to this idea, seriously. Earlier, they had rejected the proposal outright”, Mr. Reddy pointed out.

Flanked by the party National Committee member K. Narayana and Telangana Secretary Chada Venkat Reddy, he said that the process of giving the proposal a serous thought had already begun and he was hopeful of a forward movement on this, in the interest of the nation and the poorer sections of the society.

“An important resolution adopted is that we need to continue with struggles on various issues plaguing the people. We are not looking at it politically, with the 2019 elections in mind at all. For the next three years we will address the emerging dissatisfaction among people on Government functioning,” Mr. Reddy declared.

He said that the Bharatiya Janata Party had come to power riding on people's dissatisfaction over the performance of the United Progressive Alliance I and II. “But the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had done nothing to erase this dissatisfaction, so much so that the National Democratic Alliance is beginning to resemble the UPA III,” he rued.

Mr. Modi had not done anything to ease the burden of debt-ridden farmers, but was bringing pressure on banks to reduce interest rates for corporates, he alleged.

“The Prime Minister said that he would bring back black money stashed abroad, in 100 days. But 200 days have passed and he has not even brought back a single paisa,” Mr. Reddy pointed out.

On Kiran Bedi’s entry into the BJP, Mr. Reddy said that the NDA was playing with rank political bankruptcy and pointed out that annnouncement of the former IPS officer as the party’s Chief Ministerial candidate within 24 hours of her joining the BJP was an example.

The CPI General Secretary also took a dig at Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N.Chandrababu Naidu talking against family planning by making a call to have more children. This, he said, amounted to pleasing the Sangh Parivar.

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