The KPCC has decided to focus on issue-based agitations against the State government’s approach to several contemporary developments across the State.
The issues range from the LDF government’s muted response to the implementation of the Kasturirangan report to the alleged molestation of an Malayalam actor, and the move to undermine the Karunya Benevolent scheme.
KPCC president V.M. Sudheeran, who addressed a press conference soon after a six-hour meeting of the party executive committee, said the party had decided to to support such agitations since the resentment of the people was so widespread. Accordingly, former Health Minister V.S. Sivakumar will stage a 24-hour hunger stir on February 25 in the State capital in protest against the State government’s moves to undermine health schemes such as Karunya, Sukritham, Aarogya Kiranam, etc.
On the same day, Congress legislator P.T. Thomas will stage a 48-hour hunger stir before the Gandhi statue in Rajendra Maidan in Kochi to protest against the manner in which the State government has been handling the molestation case. Similar such programmes will be organised in other districts before March 2.
On March 8, the International Women’s Day, the Congress party’s elected members in urban and rural local bodies will stage protest meetings against the State government’s indifference to the growing atrocities against women and children.
The KPCC also expressed its solidarity with the Idukki District Congress Committee’s proposed farmers’ rally in Delhi to protest against the BJP-led Central government’s failure to issue final notification on the status of ecologically sensitive areas in the district under the Kasturirangan report.
