GUWAHATI, July 30 � The State unit of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) will organise street-corner meetings, foot marches, demonstrations and rallies at local and district levels throughout the State in protest against abnormal rise in the prices of essential items and to press for its demand for food security of the people, between August 16 and September 15.
CPI-M State secretary Uddhav Barman said at a press conference here on Thursady that the above decision had been taken by the party State committee in accordance with the decisions of the July 1 New Delhi convention of the country�s left parties and the July 4 Guwahati convention of the State�s left and democratic parties.
The party will observe August 15 as the anti-imperialism day and it will execute the above agitational programme on its own and jointly depending on the situations, Barman said.
During the period, the party will propagate its demands for arresting spiraling hike in the prices of essential items and revocation of the decision to effect hike in the prices of petroleum products. It will also try to popularize the demands for retaining Government control over the prices of petroleum products, supply of 35 kg of rice every month to each of the poor families at the rate of Rs 2 per kg and improving the public distribution system, Barman said.
In the month-long programme, the party will also raise the demand an all embracing CBI enquiry into the multi-crore NC Hills scam for the purpose of making the enquiry a comprehensive one. It will also demand an end to all sorts of political interference in the enquiry, Barman said.
