More than 30,000 people, including a large number of women, participated in a joint rally of five left parties here on Saturday calling for a united fight against the anti-people policies and communal agenda of the Central and State Governments.
CPI, CPI (M), CPI (Ml) liberation, SUCI (Communist) and Forward Bloc cadres and members started the procession from the Master Canteen and reached at Saheednagar Puja Mandap ground where they held a meeting. Ashis Kanungo presided.
CPI general secretary Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy decried that though over 200 farmers have committed suicide in Odisha, yet the State Government was not allotting any special package to prevent suicides.
Reddy also cruiticised the Modi Government’s bid to change the land Acquisition Act of 2014 to please the foreign and native capitalists, besides rise in attacks on the Dalits, minorities, intellectuals and students.
CPI (M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said soon after the Parliament was declared sine die, the prices of petrol and diesel was increased in spite of down trend of crude oil prices. This act will further push the skyrocketing price hike of all essential commodities, he said.
CPI (Ml) liberation leader Dheerendra Jha, SUCI(C) leader Arun Kumar Singh and Forward Bloc leader Arun Wankhar cautioned against the danger of Fascism in the grab of cultural nationalism and Hindutva fundamentalism.
Among others, CPI State secretary Dibakar Nayak, CPI (M) State secretary Ali Kishore Patnaik, CPI (Ml) liberation leader Judhisthir Mohapatra, SUCI State secretary Dhurjati Das and Forward Block State convenor Purna Padhi in their addresses also launched scathing attack on the Naveen Patnaik Government.