Parties vow to fight anti-people policies

HYDERABAD: Nine Left parties on Sunday vowed to continue their fight in the state against central and state governments’ anti-people policies.Addressing the gathering at Basheerbagh after paying tributes to those who were killed in police firing during an agitation against hike power tariff in 2000 during the TDP reign, they said that they would not allow both the governments to implement World Bank’s policies in the state.Later they organised a rally. CPI deputy secretary general secretary Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy, CPM state secretary BV Raghavulu several other leaders recalled the sacrifice of the martyrs and felt that the best way of paying tributes to them would be to fight against injustice and corruption.Sudhakar Reddy said that the Congress and the BJP did not have the right to fight against corruption or on other people’s issues because both the parties were implementing the same policies.He recalled the non-support of the BJP to the left parties in Parliament on the issue of price-rise.He said that left parties wanted to build a powerful people’s movement against corruption and black money all over the state.Only a powerful people’s movement would show the right solutions to all the problems being faced by the people, he said and alleged that the Congress-led UPA government had become synonymous with corruption and people would teach it a befitting lesson at an appropriate time.Claiming that the agitation against power tariff hike during the Chandrababu Naidu rule protected government organisations from privatisation, Raghavulu said that all the left parties were committed to fighting against the World Bank’s policies.