The CPI has extended support to the nation-wide strike by the staff of the Ordnance factories from January 23 to 25.
Organised under the banner of All India Defence Employees Federation (AIDEF), close to 4.5 lakh workers are going to strike the work for three days in protest of the Central government’s moves to allow private participation in Defence production.
Such mobilisation of workers is unprecedented and unheard of, CPI general secretary Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy told a press conference and added that allowing private and multinational companies into the Defence sector in the name of skill is dangerous and suicidal.
He condemned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s comments against the Left parties during his tour of Kerala, and said it did not behove his stature. The comments were shameful and went against the Supreme Court judgement allowing women’s entry into Sabarimala.
Removal of Alok Verma as the CBI chief has made Prime Minister’s credibility questionable, Mr.Sudhakar Reddy said, and demanded that the details of CVC report against Mr. Verma be revealed to maintain transparency.
Lambasting the present dispensation for its corporate-friendly and anti-people policies, communalism, and provocative politics, he said the videos of Kanhaiya Kumar on the basis of which chargesheet was filed against him recently, were doctored.
Responding to criticism about various parties coming together to defeat the NDA, Mr. Sudhakar Reddy questioned how NDA as coalition of 34 parties was acceptable, but 10 to 12 opposition parties was not. He attributed it to Mr. Modi becoming jittery about opposition unity.
