HT Correspondent
SIVASAGAR, Feb 15: Extending support to the proposed ‘Bharat Bandh’ call by the Trade Union Federation, All India Karmachari Federation, and Sanjukta Krishan Morcha against the alleged anti-farmer policies of the Union government on Friday, the Communist Party of India organised a demonstration in front of the District Commissioner’s Office in Sivasagar on Thursday, keeping in view the HSLC Examinations beginning on Friday.
The participants demanded the protection of the socialist and federal principles of the Constitution of India, honouring the commitments of the Union government to the farmers after scrapping the three Farm Laws, scrapping the Hit & Run policy against motor drivers, withdrawing the permission fees imposed by the Assam government for meetings and other events, protecting the workers of the unorganised sector with welfare measures, and stopping the privatisation move of government-run organisations, etc.
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The gathering was addressed by veteran CPI leader Dharma Baruah, CPI district president Moni Buragohain, AITUC leader Madan Baruah, CITU leaders Niranjan Chetia and Akhil Borbaruah, INTUC leader Purnalanta Buragohain, and advocate Bonoshree Gogoi. The speakers criticised the Union government’s alleged anti-farmer policies and bid to suppress their democratic rights for demonstration in the national capital.
CPI state secretary Kanak Gogoi told this correspondent that the party resolved to organise a mass awareness campaign from February 25 to 29 demanding, among others, granting Assam the special category state status, opposing CAA and soaring price rise, and opposing any move to dismantle the federal structure of the Constitution.
CPI State Council in Guwahati recently adopted several resolutions, Kanak Gogoi said. Through a resolution, CPI termed the State Budget 2024 as a populist one aimed primarily at increasing beneficiaries and more, with no focus on a long-term strategy to counter unemployment and the soaring price rise of all essential commodities. The government neither has plans to set up industry nor mechanise the agri sector to create more employment avenues, it said. The party said that the government failed to spend the money allotted in the previous two budgets to the tune of Rs 2000 cr and Rs 9000 cr.
