The results of the by-elections to the Hisar Lok Sabha seat and other Assembly constituencies clearly indicated that people were rejecting the Congress all over the country over corruption and its inability to control prices, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) said on Tuesday.
“These results indicate how corruption and the failure to curb price rise are causing the people to reject the Congress all over the country,” the party's Polit Bureau said in a statement.
At the end of a two-day meeting, the Polit Bureau also said senior BJP leader L. K. Advani's yatra against corruption had only succeeded in highlighting the BJP's record of corruption. “The arrest and jailing of the former Karnataka Chief Minister, B.S. Yeddyurappa, on corruption charges has highlighted how the BJP government in Karnataka has been part of the nexus with the mining mafia,” it said.
It noted that the record of the earlier NDA government showed how the BJP was no different from the Congress when it came to high-level corruption.
Growing anger
On the ‘Occupy Wall Street' movement in the United States and various protest actions in Europe and other parts of the world, it said they were a manifestation of people's growing anger at the predatory role of big banks and finance capital.
“The people have seen how corporates and banks have been bailed out while ordinary people are made to bear the burden of the crisis,” the statement said adding that the party extended its full support to the protests against the “rapacious exploitation” by big capital and finance. It was necessary to step up and broaden the struggles against the neo-liberal policies in India.
The Polit Bureau condemned the Kerala government's action of suspending two CPI(M) members from the Assembly, saying the Oommen Chandy government had resorted to a brutal police repression on protesting students and resorted to this “undemocratic step” when the matter was raised in the Assembly. “People of Kerala can see through the political motivation behind such an action.”
Expressing its support to the workers' struggle at the Maruti Suzuki plant in Manesar, it charged the Haryana government with conniving with the management that resorted to suspensions and dismissals to break it.
The Polit Bureau discussed the draft of an ideological resolution that would be placed before the Central Committee for its consideration at its November meeting.
