People should unite to defeat the Telugu Desam Party and the YSR Congress Party in the coming elections, Communist Party of India State secretary K. Ramakrishna said at a public meeting here on Tuesday.
Delivering the inaugural speech at the 10th district conference of the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), Mr. Ramakrishna hit back at the way the ruling party was allegedly stifling the public voice in the Assembly and outside.
General strike
All the Trade Unions affiliated to different political parties would organise a country-wide general strike on January 8 and 9 opposing the ‘anti-workers and anti-people policies’ being followed by the Modi government.
Finding fault with the main Opposition party in the State, he said its president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy did not cooperate with the police in the investigation into the attack on him at the Visakhapatnam airport.
“The leaders of these two parties have stopped discussing the issues related to public needs and have stooped down to faction leaders’ level reducing politics to faction politics in Andhra Pradesh,” Mr. Ramakrishna told a gathering here.
