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Adani's assets up by Rs.25,000 crore, 'Achhe Din' have arrived: Karat
Agartala, Feb 25
CPI-M general secretary
Prakash Karat Wednesday said that with Gujarat-based industrialist
Gautam Adani's assets rising by Rs.25,000 crore within a year 'Achhe
din' (good days) have come in the country under the BJP regime.
Addressing
a large party gathering here, the Communist Party of India-Marxist
(CPI-M) chief said "Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani's properties have
increased by Rs.25,000 crore in the past one year" and that establishes
how "Achhe din" (good days) have come in India.
"During its
nine-month rule so far, the Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre
has worked round-the-clock for the interest of the corporate sector,
industrialists and the moneyed men, and worked against the farmers,
workers and poor men," Karat said.
The event was organised in connection with the four-day 21st state conference of the CPI-M that began Wednesday.
Karat
also alleged that to open the coal and insurance sectors to foreigners
and the corporate sector, separate ordinances have been promulgated
while bypassing parliament.
"Since 1971, the coal sector was a
public sector resource... now Modi government has started disinvestment
of this sector. The land acquisition ordinance is a land-grabbing
regulation to loot farmers' land and assets to benefit corporate."
The
Left leader said that through the Food Security Act, 67 percent poor
people have to be benefited. But the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
government is trying to reduce it to 40 percent.
"The CPI-M would
undertake a nation-wide struggle against the misrule of the Modi
government and highlight how the present government is attacking the
minorities and slashing the allocation under MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act)."
CPI-M politburo member
Brinda Karat said Tripura's Left Front government, headed by Chief
Minister Manik Sarkar, has successfully demonstrated how alternative
governance could deliver the goods to the people, especially the poor.
"The
Modi government has been nakedly working for the corporate and moneyed
men and marginalising 'aam aadmi' (common men). The central government
even started depriving a small state like Tripura in providing its due
central share under central schemes, including MGNREGA."
CPI-M
politburo member and West Bengal CPI-M state secretary Biman Bose,
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and the party's state secretary
Bijan Dhar also spoke on the occasion.
All top CPI-M leaders are
the key speakers at the four-day party conference, where a total of 578
delegates, including women, will participate.