Lashing out against erstwhile ally the ruling BJD for the mining scam and incidents of suicide by farmers in Orissa, the Left Parties today said they would oppose 'tooth and nail' the government's anti-people policies.
Speaking to newsmen here, the Left leaders held the Orissa government responsible for farmers' suicide and the Farmer Commission announced by it as an just an 'eyewash' to divert people's attention from peasants' suicide.
The farmers had taken the extreme step as the farm sector had remained neglected and agriculture had become expensive, they said.
The government had not only failed to provide proper irrigation to farmers but also failed to provide seeds, fertilisers and insecticides at reasonable prices, they said.
CPI state secretary Dibakar Nayak, CPI-M leader Santosh Das and FB's S Mitra said the Left parties would hold a joint rally here on Novemeber 24 to protest against the policies of the BJD government and would be addressed AB Bardhan, Prakash
Karat and Naren Dey.
The rally would demand food security for all, remunerative prices to farmers for their produce, proper irrigation facilities, BPL cards to the poor, work for labourers and land for the landless, besides attacking the government on the mining scam and sky-rocketing of prices of essential commodities.
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