AFSPA should be scrapped totally: D Raja
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, April 07 2019: CPI National Council Secretary and Rajya Sabha MP D Raja has categorically stated that it's time to repeal AFSPA from all over the country including Manipur.

Speaking to media persons at Irabot Bhavan here today, D Raja said that CPI has been shouting continuously demanding total repeal of AFSPA.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah have been creating a fear psychosis among the people of North East by making deceptive statements that the entire region stands to lose a lot if the Modi Government does not return to power.

At the same, the BJP leaders have been making all kinds of provocative statements in the region, said the CPI leader.

More and more people have realised the wrongdoings of the BJP-led Government and a large majority of people have turned their back on BJP, he said.

Rather than engaging in any meaningful debate on development and public welfare, BJP has been abusing and hurling all kinds of false allegations against Opposition parties which have been pointing out the NDA Government's wrongdoings, he continued.

CPI is always concerned about Manipur and North East, and the party has been fighting for many issues besieging the region both inside Parliament and outside, he asserted.

Accusing the Modi Government of mismanaging the country's economy, D Raja remarked that Modi's promises to bring back black money stashed in foreign banks and provide employment to the country's millions of unemployed have turned out to be empty promises.

On the contrary, the NDA Government has established deep rooted nexus with corporate classes by privatising all major sectors.

Asserting that the NITI Aayog was set up in the interest of the corporate class, the CPI leader underscored the growing need for re-establishment of the Planning Commission.

Just one per cent of the assets of corporate class exceeds 50 per cent of the total income of the country's working class.

There is an alarming economic disparity within the country, he said.

Saying that the country badly needs a universal social security scheme, D Raja said that CPI wishes to invest 10 per cent of the country's GDP in education sector and 6 per cent GDP in health sector.

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