Mangalore: CPI (M) Youth, Women Workers Picketing Taluk Office Held, Released

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Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (PS/SB)

Mangalore, Apr 19: The state committee of CPI (M) picketed the deputy commissiner's office here on Tuesday April 19 as a mark of protesting the failure of state and central government.

Addressing the protestors, B Madhava, secretary, CPI (M) Dakshina Kannada district committee said that both state and union government is in the hands of corrupt politicians. 2G spectrum, CWG scam, Adarsh House scam in the centre and land scam, nepotism in the state have affected the common people badly. Both the governments have failed to curb rising price.

The central government budget proposals intends at cancellation of the ration system. The government is curbing the voice of protestors who were demanding for minimum wages for unorganized labourers. The government is forcibly implementing defective new pension scheme on unorganized labourers, he alleged.

Lacs of families in the state do not have shelters. Poor people demand for housing sites, Title deeds going unheard by the concerned department. The government has engaged in denotification of land to pave the way for capitalists, he said.

The BJP government which came into power by extending various promises such as 1 kg rice at Rs 2 and such promises are still in paper, he added.

K R Shreeyan, Sunil Kumar Bajal, U B Lokayya, Krishnappa Salian and Munir Katipalla among others were present.

As many as 500 protestors were taken into custody by the police. Even private buses were used to shift them.