On the day when Prime Minister — addressing the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) meeting — stressed that we “are a private sector led economy with 75 per cent of investment being in the private sector and the driver of growth is indeed private investment,” the CPI(Ml) in its ninth congress placed a resolution that strongly “opposed UPA’s imposing privatisation on natural resources.”
“The corporate market onslaught is accompanied by a relentless truncating of the democratic space by this government and this has become the default setting of it,” read a resolution placed by the General Secretary of the CPI (Ml) on the second day of its ongoing congress in Ranchi.
The resolution also criticised several other policies of the Government’s like the decision to introduce FDI in the retail sector and the recent land Acquisition Bill.
The resolution of the party also said that not only this Government was anti-people but the “Government in waiting” — the BJP was no different in giving undue protection to the private sector.
“BJP led State Gujarat has become the example of Corporate Fascism and its Chief Minister is not only Communal Fascist but also a Corporate Fascist. People should not only vote out the current UPA Government but also the Government-in-waiting,” said Swapan Mukherjee, member of control committee while discussing the content of resolution.
General Secretary CPI (Ml) Dipankar Bhattacharya also derided the BJP for pushing Narendra Modi as the party’s face and as PM candidate in next lok Sabha election. He also blamed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for supporting and “letting the BJP progress and prosper”.
Commenting on the policies of UPA government the General Secretary said that its policies are pro-corporate and anti-people. “Subsidies given hitherto to the common people are being curtailed and big corporate houses are being served the largesse of subsidies. People are faced with the issues of rising corruption, inflation, dwindling healthcare services and jeopardised education system. The bogey of privatisation has further aggravated the wound of the people,” he said.
The resolution placed by the congress also had many says on the various international issues. While it strongly criticised the human rights violations in Sri lanka during the Tamil War and termed it as “genocidal war campaign” it also criticised the USA’s attempt to intervene in Venezuela, Korean Peninsula and also the country’s alleged backing of Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
“We will discuss the content of resolution tonight and it would be passed after the due diligence,” said Swapan Mukherjee on Wednesday.