October 19, 2014
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Elect Left to Bring Change in Haryana: Prakash Karat

ADDRESSING an impressive public meeting on October 11, CPI(M) General Secretary, Prakash Karat made a fervent plea for sending Left members to assembly to raise issues of working masses, push forward the struggle for alternative policies and healthy politics in Haryana. He pointed out that the people of Haryana fed up with anti-people, thoroughly corrupt and ayaram-gayaram politics of the Congress, the BJP and other ruling class parties, are looking for new politics. Karat appealed to the largely worker-peasant gathering to vote and canvass for all the four CPI(M) candidates contesting from this district and also expressed support for lone CPI candidate from this district, from Narwana seat. Besides Ramesh Chandra from Jind assembly seat, CPI(M) has put up Prakash Chandra from Julana, Jodharam Sarpanch from Uchana and Sushil Kumar from Safidon. The CPI(M) general secretary campaigned in this district where CPI(M) and CPI together are contesting all the five assembly seats. In Haryana, the CPI(M) is contesting on 17 seats and supporting CPI candidates on 12 seats. However out of the ninety seats in the assembly, both the parties are in the fray in two seats. Later in the evening, Prakash Karat also addressed a fairly large gathering of Party activists at the Party state committee office, Jasbir Smarak at Rohtak. The meeting enthused the cadre working in Kalanaur, the lone seat the Party is contesting in this district. The Party has put up a young cadre, Sonu Kalanur on this reserved seat. Prakash Karat also interacted with the media at Rohtak. In both the meetings while underlining the inevitability of a verdict against the ten year long Congress misrule in Haryana, Karat also pointed out that BJP is no better. In fact analyzing in some detail almost five months of BJP rule at centre, he underlined the fact that for first time the RSS controlled BJP has secured an absolute majority in the Lok Sabha. This has marked a rightwards shift in national politics. Karat also underlined how interests of two main pillars of Modi rule--corporates and communalism--are being aggressively promoted. In this connection he talked of widening of the communal campaign with the BJP in power at the centre on one hand and the growing attacks on people's rights, especially in the form of attempts at curtailing the MNREGA and amending labour laws and the Land Acquisition Act to the detriment of the workers and peasants, on the other.