Left launches campaign to vote out UPA
Determined to see the ruling UPA coalition crumbles after pulling the rug, Left parties will launch a "vigorous" nationwide campaign here from today against the government detailing its "unkept promises" and "obsession" with the nuclear deal.
The four Left parties -- CPI-M, CPI, RSP and Forward Bloc -- will explain to the people what prompted them to withdraw support to the UPA and why they oppose the nuclear deal, the bone of contention between them and the Congress.
Top Left leaders will address a meeting at Mavlankar Hall ground here where they will cite the UPA's "drawbacks and failures, including rising prices and inflation, surrendering of national interest, and unkept promises with regard to the Common Minimum Programme (CMP)".
The leaders are expected to launch a "vigorous attack" on the government for its "refusal" to take appropriate steps to tackle the "runaway" inflation and "back-breaking" price rise.
"We will explain to people the reasons for withdrawing our support. We will also explain the UPA's pro-American and anti-people policies which are resulting in price rise and other problems," CPI-M General Secretary Prakash Karat said.
He said the Left will rally with other democratic and secular forces "who do not want either Congress or BJP to be the only alternative".
In the course of the campaign, he said the Left will also place before the people the alternative to meet energy requirements for development and for putting an end to economic policies which are "harmful to farmers, rural poor, workers and other sections".
Meanwhile, CPI-M General Secretary Prakash Karat and BSP supremo Mayawati, two staunch opponents of the Indo-US nuclear deal, met today in an apparent move to take on the Government during the trust vote in Lok Sabha on July 22.
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