By TCN News,
New Delhi: Thousands of people attached to Left parties from across the country on March 14 marched through the streets of Delhi to Parliament demanding the UPA Government to quit power in the light of unprecedented corruption, backbreaking price rise, rampant unemployment and assault on people’s movements.
The march was organized by All India Left Coordination (AILC), a platform comprising four Left parties – the CPI (ML) Liberation, CPM Punjab, Left Coordination Committee (Kerala) and Lal Nishan Party (Leninist) Maharashtra.
Holding red banners and flags, colourful festoons, and placards, protesters were shouting with slogans against UPA Government. The march was started from the Ramlila Ground and culminated in a mass meeting at Parliament Street.
Addressing the meeting, Comrade Dipankar Bhattacharya, General Secretary of the CPI (ML) Liberation said that the UPA Government which had claimed to be a government of the Aam Aadmi had proved to be a Government of corporate looters and scammers.
“The Government has been caught red-handed colluding with corporate agents to allow the billionaire Ambanis, Mittal, Tata to loot the country’s land, minerals, oil, gas, spectrum and other resources and bleed the country’s treasury through black money. The appointing a tainted CVC was a bid to ensure the cover-up of these scams.” he alleged.
He said that after all these shameful activities Congress-led UPA Government and the Prime Minister have no moral authority to rule the country
Comrade Mangat Ram Pasla, General Secretary of CPM Punjab, alleged that the same UPA Government that is subsidizing billionaire CEOs to the tune of lakhs of crores is slashing spending on agriculture and subsidies on food, fertilizers and fuel that is creating problems for starving poor.
Comrade Bhimrao Bansode of Maharashtra reminded how Congress leaders of Maharashtra had shamefully connived with top army officials to grab flats allotted to Kargil martyrs’ families in the Adarsh Society, Mumbai.
The meeting passed resolutions demanding the UPA Government’s resignation, effective measures for curbing corruption and the outflow of black money, end to state repression and scrapping of draconian laws including sedition and AFSPA.
In another resolution the Left groups demanded ban on RSS in the wake of revelations of saffron terror.