Top Left leaders on Monday reviewed the political situation in the country and worked out modalities for a joint rally here in March to protest the UPA government’s policies which, they said, had led to price rise and unemployment.
At the meeting which lasted almost an hour, the General Secretaries of the CPI(M), the CPI and the Forward Bloc also held preliminary discussions on the Assembly elections in some States later this year and next year, Left sources said.
Assembly polls are due in some States including Bihar, West Bengal, Kerala and Tamil Nadu where the Left parties have major stake.
The Left leaders — Prakash Karat, A.B. Bardhan and Debabrata Biswas — also took stock of the joint campaign conducted in the States against price rise, on problems of drought and flood and for food security.
The issues of price rise, unemployment and land acquisition for industrialisation, besides other immediate problems of the people would be highlighted in the all-India rally of the Left parties on March 12, the sources said.
The Left parties have maintained that the government has “totally failed” to curb the continuing steep rise in the prices of food items. Issues related to land and unemployment have also become acute, they said.
The rally, to be held during the Budget Session of Parliament, aims at highlighting these and other issues and give a thrust to an all-India movement by the Left parties, they said.
