Left parties to protest job crunch, price rise
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, May 16 2022: The Left parties will hold protest across the country against high rate of unemployment and price rise of essential commodities from May 25 to 31, said Left Coordination Committee, Manipur chairman L Sotinkumar.

In a release, Sotinkumar contended that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's economic policy aimed at making the corporates richer has resulted in skyrocketing of price of essential commodities in the country.

While outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the poor to such an extent that they can't afford two square meals a day, the government has been continuously hiking price of petroleum products thereby leading to direct or indirect rise in prices of many essential commodities, he maintained.

Stating that Left parties convened a meeting on May 13 in New Delhi and thoroughly discussed Modi's economic policies, Sotinkumar informed that the gathering condemned lack of initiative by the government to address suffering of the commoners.

Thus, to protest callousness of the government the Left parties will hold week long agitations across the country from May 25, reiterated Sotinkumar, adding that during the course of the protest Left parties will raise demands to lower tax on petroleum products, ensure adequate provision of PDS items to the commoners and reduce prices of essential commodities including edible oil and pulses, increase number of working days under MGNREGS to 200 days, hold recruitment process to fill up vacant post and create new jobs, implement centrally-funded schemes like MGNREGS in urban areas as well and to deposit a sum of Rs 7,500 in the bank account of citizens who are not income tax payers.

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