[Marxistindia] Left parties call for Protest Hartal on Sept 10

[news from the cpi(m)]

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Communist Party of India

Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)-Liberation

Socialist Unity Centre of India (C)

Revolutionary Socialist Party

 

September 6, 2018

Press Statement

 

Left Parties Call 

 

All India Protest Hartal on September 10

 

Unprecedented economic burdens are being mounted on the people by this Modi
government.  The exponentially rising  prices of petroleum products is
having a crippling effect on the livelihood of crores of Indians.  The
farmers, already groaning under mounting  agrarian distress, see their
production costs further escalated.  This price rise has a cascading
all-round inflationary impact.  This is contributing to a further economic
slowdown reducing existing employment, leave alone creating any new
opportunities.  The unprecedented fall in the value of the Indian rupee
reflects the deep economic crisis created by this Modi government.  Such
economic attacks on the people come on top of the vicious
communal-authoritarian onslaughts mounted by this Modi government.  

 

While the peasantry all over the country has been demanding the promised
remunerative price and loan waiver, the Modi government callously refuses.
On the other hand, it shows largesse of waiving off loans taken by the
corporates during the last four years of nearly Rs. 4 lakh crores.
Humongous amounts of loans taken from our banks by the corporates  and the
consequent NPAs has bled our banking system.  Such crony capitalism is also
evident in the various deals, like the Rafael fighter aircraft purchase
scam, that is fast unfolding.  Obdurate rejection of any enquiry into this
deal only reconfirms the scam.  Black money, instead of recovering, as
promised, has been legitimized.   All efforts to divert  people's attention
away from these monumental failures by spreading an atmosphere of hate,
violence and indiscriminate arrests of activists will not succeed.

 

In protest against this situation, the Left parties have decided to call for
a nationwide hartal on September 10.  Left parties call upon the people to
join this protest in a big way to demonstrate people's rejection of the Modi
government and its policies.  

 

 

[Released from the office of CPI(M)]

 

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