NDA govt has put people in hard times: CPI
CPI
general secretary, D Raja, alleged on Sunday that the NDA govt's 20-year rule in the state has put its people in hard times. He appealed to people to change the govt for their betterment by voting for the Grand Alliance (GA).
Raja, who was addressing the concluding session of the two-day meet of the party's state council held here on Sunday, said: "As a symptom of the hard times, both crime and corruption have peaked, for which the police headquarters has blamed the farmers of the state."
He blamed the "pro-corporate and anti-people" policies pursued by the Centre for the rising prices of commodities and reduction in the work opportunities for youths.
Stating that the attention of the entire country was on the outcome of the
Bihar assembly elections
, Raja asked the state CPI workers and supporters to reach out to people with the slogan 'Badlo sarkar, bachao Bihar' .
He said that the special intensive revision (SIR) being done in the state was aimed at removing the poor, dalits, migrant workers and people from minority sections from the electoral roll.
State CPI secretary, Ram Naresh Pandey, said the five-day 25th state conference of the party would be held in Patna from Sept 8 to 12, and a state-level rally would also be held here on the first day. The resolution adopted by the party's state council rejected the SIR exercise, and also demanded 300 units of free electricity for the domestic consumers.
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