Citu national meet flashes 'red' card to UPA govt policies
By TNN |
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BANGALORE: Showing its disenchantment with the Congress-led UPA regime, Citu has termed the two-and-half-year performance of the Manmohan Singh government as a ���catalogue of blatant violations of the most commitments��� given in the national common minimum programme.
���The globalisation policies pursued by the Manmohan Singh government has enhanced the rate of exploitation of the working class,��� MK Pandhe, president of the trade union wing of CPM, said in his presidential address at the 12th all-India conference of Citu in Bangalore.
Sensex index crossing the 14,000-mark and the super profits achieved by several major private sector undertakings in just one year of the UPA regime is a vivid testimony to the harsh reality of deteriorating working and living conditions of the working classes, he said pointing out that the conditions of farmers and agricultural labourers had gone from bad to worse and the spiralling prices of essential commodities had hit the poor below the belt.
The Citu chief said the country���s unemployment situation had worsened in both urban and rural areas despite the introduction of NREG Act. While the utter collapse of PDS has made the life of the poor miserable, the commercialisation of education system had made higher education a luxury for the ordinary people.
Though the number of BPL families had been increasing, official statistics were being fudged to show declining poverty, he said pointing out that mere growth in GDP cannot be termed as reduction in poverty. The five-day national conference of Citu is being attended by around 2500 delegates from all over the country, including foreign delegates from 35 countries.
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Dr Pandhe warned the UPA regime against its policies of surrendering national sovereignty to serve the global designs of US imperialism. The concessions given to FDI in various forms will make the country dependent on foreign capital and lead to further deprivation of the working classes. However, it was regrettable that the globalisation policies had not helped in bringing unity among the working classes even though it had brought the capitalist class together.
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