CITU, has chalked out a series of agitation programmes between Oct 22 and Dec 5 to counter the ‘India Shining’ campaign of the UPA govt.
NEW DELHI: Even as the UPA-Left strategists are doing everything to avert a snap poll, the CPI(M)’s trade union, CITU, has chalked out a series of agitation programmes between October 22 and December 5 to counter the so-called ‘India Shining’ campaign of the UPA government.
Announcing the campaign calendar here on Monday, CPI(M) politburo member and CITU president M. K. Pandhe said the Manmohan Singh government has given Rs.250 crore to an ad agency to publicise the achievements of the UPA government.
The government has announced a string of populist schemes which have no basis and they will remain only on paper, he said, adding: “Huge public money is being spent. Manmohan Singh is also doing whatever Vajpayee (Atal Behari) had done during his last days in office and we all saw the result. The NDA was routed. This government will also meet the same fate if it does correct itself.”
Charging the government with deluding the people, Pandhe said: “Finance minister P. Chidambaram had recently said that he had no money to extend the National Rural Employment Scheme to more districts. But after Rahul Gandhi made a request, the government agreed to extend the scheme to all districts.”
Pandhe said the CITU campaign would be against nuclear deal, price rise, FDI in retail trade, unorganised sector bill, SEZs and manipulation of Consumer Price Index (CPI) by the government.
The CPI(M) leader said the party’s trade union will offer “physical resistance” to the “anti-people” policies of the UPA government. Coming down heavily on FDI in retail, he said even American labour unions are opposed to it and had warned him of the motives of MNCs like Walmart.
He said the American Federation of Labour and Congress of Industrial Organisations which represent 40 per cent of workforce in the US had recently sent a delegation to India.
“The 20-member team met us and cautioned us against the FDI. They gave us a detailed briefing on the extent Walmart can harm the smaller economies. Initially, Walmar will sell quality goods dirt cheap and once it destroys other competitors in the retail sector they would hike the prices slowly,” Pandhe said.
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