Dr Nara off to Durban, South Africa
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 08, 2012:
CPI Manipur State Council secretary Dr M Nara today left Imphal for Durban for the 13th Congress of the Communist Party of South Africa.
Dr Nara is representing the Communist Party of India at the biggest congress of Communist Party which is held every four years.
Speaking to media persons at Tulihal Airport before his departure, Dr Nara said that the South Africa National Congress was set up with the help of erstwhile Soviet Union and some other countries in the aftermath of the political movements launched by the revolutionaries and the people.
Dr Nara said that the world is facing an economic crisis.
The US foreign policy as well as economic policy driven by imperialism and the world economic crisis would be deliberated as the main agenda at the congress which would commence on July 11 and continue for five days.
The congress would also draft a common policy for BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries.
Saying that Manipuris not spared from the world economic crisis, Dr Nara observed that the State is also facing myriad issues like unemployment, scourges of privatisation, denial of educational rights, poverty, concentration of political and economic power by the rich few etc.
He claimed that the con gress would go down the history as a landmark event.