Speakers at a district-level convention here on Tuesday criticised the Union and State governments for supporting multi-national companies and ignoring the interest of the common man.
The convention, organised by the Communist Party of India – Marxist (CPI-M), Communist Party of India (CPI) and the Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) also underlined the need for the people, particularly the working class and farmers, to support the Left parties to fight against the anti-labour and anti-people policies being pursued by both the governments.
M. Sashidhar, State committee member of the SUCI, criticised the Union government for chanting the development mantra and limiting itself over development of roads and bridges while not bothered about the welfare of the people.
“Development means welfare of the people by providing them food, work, shelter and proper health services and not merely laying roads and adopting policies that benefits MNCs,” he said. The Narendra Modi government had failed to rise to the aspirations of the people due to its failure to implement its promise of bringing back black money. It was extending crores of rupees as subsidy to capitalists and was preparing the ground for privatisation of public sector banks.
U. Basavaraj, member of the State secretariat of the CPI(M), was of the view that the government giving red carpet welcome to MNCs would prove disastrous to the country and also to the people.
T.G. Vittal of the Retired LIC Employees Association, said that ‘Make in India’ was nothing but selling India. “Mr. Modi has become a puppet in the hands of the MNCs and has been preparing the ground for selling India to them in the guise of getting foreign investment in the country. This should not be allowed and people had to raise their voice against it,” he said.
K. Nagabhushan, secretary of the district unit of the CPI, criticised the Modi government for making attempts to snub Left parties and others who raise their voice against the misdeeds of the government. “To divert the attention of the people on the burning issues, the government had been trying to incite communal violence, unrest in universities and the like that needs to be opposed,” he added.
