“Need of the hour is a Left and democratic alliance”

Criticising the Narendra Modi government for by-passing Parliament and introducing ordinances to ease rules for land acquisition and foreign direct investment in insurance, and initiating privatisation of coal mines, Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Prakash Karat on Saturday appealed to the working class to launch a struggle to overthrow the ‘pro-corporate and communal’ government at the Centre.

Addressing the Jan Sangharsh Rally organised by the party in Rohtak, he said the BJP government was doing the opposite of what it had promised during the Lok Sabha election campaign.

“In nine months, the direction of the government is clear: it has taken the rightist path. It has written off corporate loans worth more than Rs 5.70 lakh crore.

This path is against the toiling masses.

On the one hand, it has opened natural resources to big capital and on the other hand it has imposed a burden on the people by making the MGNREGA ineffective and bringing an ordinance to acquire land without consent and rehabilitation,” he said.

Mr. Karat said the working class would have to come together to force the government to withdraw its land acquisition ordinance and save the MGNREGA, education , health, housing and public services.