leaders and workers of five left parties on Saturday staged a demonstration at the lower PMG here protesting US President Barack Obama’s scheduled visit to India. Workers of the left parties like the CPI, the CPI (Marxist), Communist Party of India (Marxist-leninist) liberation, Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) and Forward Bloc came in a procession from Master Canteen flaunting placards bearing slogans like “Obama, go back” and staged a rally in front of the State Assembly opposing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “love” for Obama.
The protesters also burnt an effigy of Obama after shouting different slogans against the US. CPI(M) State secretary Ali Kishore Patnaik, addressing the gathering, said the US has created terrorism in the world, and now it is interfering in internal matters of other countries to pose its supremacy. “The Modi Government has started dancing to the tunes of Obama by promulgating an Ordinance to allow 49-per cent FDI in insurance sector and other sectors,” Patnaik said.
CPI secretary Dibakar Nayak said the US has violated human rights by declaring war against Iraq, Syria and libya and helping Israel attack on Palestine. “America’s dadagiri cannot be tolerated anymore. We Indians should protest Obama’s visit,” he added. Among others, CPI’s Ramakrushna Panda, CPI(Ml) liberation’s Judhisthir Mohapatra, SUCI(C)’s Purnachandra Behera and Forward Bloc’s Jyoti Ranjan Mohapatra addressed the rally.