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Hyderabad, May 18 (PMI): Leaders of ten left parties of Telangana on Tuesday met in the CPI-M State office MB Bhavan under the presidentship of CPI State secretary Chada Venkat Reddy and decided to launch protests all over the State against the rising prices of essential commodities, land registration rates, electricity and RTC bus fares in three phases from May 25 to 31.
As part of the program, the left parties’ activists will stage protests in mandals and town headquarters on May 27 and dharnas at the district collectorates on May 30. In third phase, the leftists will gather at the Indira Park and stage massive dharna on May 31 from 10 am to 1 pm.
The left leaders called upon the leaders of people’s associations, intellectuals, democracy fighters and others to participate in the protests and dharnas in large numbers and make the program successful. The left parties’ leaders lamented that the Centre and the State government have been raising the prices of cooking gas, pulses, edible oils and food grains imposing unbearable burden on the poor and middle class people in the country. They demanded that the State and Union governments immediately withdraw taxes on petrol, diesel, cooking gas, clothes, essential commodities, excise tax, GST and so on.
They also demanded that the governments strengthen public distribution system and supply 14 kinds of essential commodities. They also demanded that the governments pay Rs 7,500 minimum pay to the unorganized sector and so on.
The meeting was attended by left leaders of the State Thammineni Veerabhadram, D G Narasimha Rao of CPI-M, Chada Venkat Reddy, Bala Mallesh of CPI, Rama and Hanmesh of CPI-ML Praja Pantha, K Goverdhan of CPI-ML New Democracy, JV Chalapathi Rao, Murahari, Janaki Ramulu of RSP, B Surendar Reddy of Forward Block, G Ravi of MCPI, Rajesh of CPI-ML Liberation and others. (PMI)
