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UPA
government ignoring ‘aam aadmi’: Brinda Karat
Saturday, October 02, 2010 08:11:23 PM,
IANS
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Agartala:
Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo member Brinda
Karat said here Saturday that the Congress-led United Progressive
Alliance (UPA) government has forgotten its pre-poll promise and
is ignoring the ‘aam aadmi’ (common man).
The government is working with all seriousness for the ‘khaas
aadmi’ (special man) instead of the ‘aam aadmi’, said the Left
leader.
“The Congress before the last Lok Sabha polls (2009) howled
heart-rendering for the poor but after the polls it is working
hard for the millionaires,” said Karat, while addressing women in
Tripura’s capital Agartala.
“While food inflation rose 16 percent and prices of essentials
exceeded all previous records, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is
asking Indians to be patient,” the senior Marxist leader said.
She said while lakhs of people fought hunger, foodgrains were
eaten by rats in warehouses.
Karat announced that the success story of the CPI-M-led Left Front
government in Tripura would be taken to the entire country to
enlighten people to compare between the performance of Left and
other parties.
In implementation of MGNREG (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
Employment Guarantee) scheme and other welfare schemes for the
marginalised sections, Tripura is the number one state in India,
the CPI-M leader said.
Terming New Delhi as the crime capital of India, Karat said that
crime against women was the highest in the Congress and the
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled states.
“Women are getting poor wages in most of the Congress and the
BJP-ruled states,” said
The mass gathering of the women was organised as part of the
Tripura state conference of the All India Democratic Women’s
Association (AIDWA), a women’s frontal organisation of the CPI-M.
The association’s all-India conference will be held in Kanpur
(Uttar Pradesh) Nov 9-12.
Tripura Chief Minister and CPI-M politburo member Manik Sarkar and
other women leaders also spoke in the meeting.
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