Shadow Correspondent
Jammu Oct 14:
On the call of five left parties for all India protest against deepening crisis and growing people’s Miseries, the Communist Party of India (M) today held one day protest led by Sham Parshad Kesar, Regional Secretary at Press Club Jammu. Hundreds of party activists from different distress economic policy.
While addressing the gathering Sham Parshad Kesar said that the Indian economy is in the grip of an extremely serious crisis bordering on recession. All evidence including the official data confirms that in almost all sectors of the economy, there is a collapse of demand leading to big cuts in production unprecedented mounting job growing mass unemployment, underemployment, low wages and income and the deepening agrarian distress he added.
This has resulted in compounding the misery of the large majority of our working people. Instead of addressing these issues the Modi government is seeking to divert people’s attention by rousing passion that deepen polarization, he said. The low growth rate of GDP and the lowest manufacturing of Industrial production growth have resulted this economic recession and unemployment has risen to unprecedented levels.
Om Parkash, General Secretary state CITU in his address said farmers and workers are the worst sufferers during the Modi Regime he demanded a one time load waiver to the farmers to meet agrarian distress, providing a minimum of 200 days of work to MNREGA workers, suitable compensation for damaged crops and fruits, ensure a minimum wages of Rs 21000/- per monthly living wages for the large number of workers who have been terminated and providing workers’ status to scheme workers such as ASHA, Anganwari, Mid-Day-Meal etc.
