--CPM goes soft on Naveen, says
‘BJD with us’
BHUBANESWAR:
“Efforts are on to project an alternative Government in the Centre without
taking help of the Congress and the BJP,” said Communist Party of India (Marxist)
general secretary Prakash Karat at a Press conference here on Thursday.
Coming down heavily on the
Congress-led UPA Government, Karat said the Government allowed loot of
country’s natural resources to the corporate houses and handful of companies.
Corruption, price rise and growing inequalities left the country people in lurch,
he added.
He also criticised the BJP, who
is competing with Congress in terms of industrialisation ideas for growth, for
allowing neo-liberal policy in the country. “Loot of natural resources started
with process of liberalisation and opening up of mining sector to pvt players,”
Karat said.
“To get rid of all these
problems, country requires alternative policies for betterment of the people.
So we need a non-Congress and non-BJP Government in the Centre,” Karat said,
adding, “We have already discussed about the matter with BJD in Odisha, Janata
Dal (United) in Bihar, Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh,
AIADMK in Tamilnadu and a few other parties.”
When Karat told about the
insensitivity of the West Bengal Government on rising atrocities against women,
the media persons grilled him about his softness towards the Odisha Government which
failed to check serious crime against women.
On mining scam and Shah Commission
report, Karat said the Central Government’s policies towards mining are harmful
for the country. He avoided the State’s fault by criticising the Centre’s flawed
mining policy. “As far as mining is concerned, it is Central policy matter,” he
stated.
Though he avoided the third front
issue, he said that they would continue their talk about electoral agreement
with non-BJP and non-Congress secular parties.
Karat ruled out any coalition
with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and cleared that they would contest in 35 seats
in eight States of the country.
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