People's Democracy
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
No.
28
July 10, 2011
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Vol. XXXV
No.
28 July 10, 2011 |
AIDWA AP STATE CONFERENCE
RALLY
'Rights
of the People
Are
being Trampled Upon'
BRINDA Karat,
vice-president of the All
India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) and Rajya sabha member
charged the
Congress-led governments at the centre and the state of Andhra Pradesh
of
curbing the rights of the common masses with all their might.
She was addressing a huge
public
meeting held at Paayam Seethamma Nagar in the Khammam town of
Brinda Karat in her speech
described
the Kiran Kumar government of AP as a heartless one that does not care
for the
issues of the people. She dubbed it as the 'cheap liquor government'
because it
is solely relying on the liquor sales for filling its treasury with the
money,
amidst cheers and loud applause from women. “The heart of Kiran Kumar
Reddy is
throbbing only for preserving his chair as the chief minister of the
state.
None could make out what the state CM is doing and how he is running
the
government. The CM is venturing to bring about disunity amongst the
people, in
order to preserve his post” stated Brinda Karat. She condemned the
government
for being mired neck deep in corruption. She also rapped the state
government for
failing to resolve the problems that are getting accumulated on a large
scale
in the region of Telengana. “The farmers in Telangana are suffering from lack of water for irrigation. The rulers are
apathetic to all this. What happened to the Dummagudem project?
Thammineni
Veerabhdram, the leader of CPI(M), held a 3000 km ‘pada yaatra’ for the
sake of
this project, wishing the all round development of the district. But
the state
government is not responding yet. The government, which is apathetic to
the genuine
problems of the people, is busy ensuring the rivers of the liquor flow
along
uninterrupted”, she condemned.
About the UPA government
at the
centre, Brinda Karat mocket at its trumpeting of the country witnessing
great
progress under its rule. She said that the progress is visible in the
multiplication of the cases of the harassment against women and the
suppression
of their rights. She told that, each minute one case of rape is being
recorded
and every three minutes, one girl is being harassed in our country. The
government is telling that the country is advancing forward, but the
women of
this country know the truth, she emphasized. Karat questioned the model
of
development of this government, where by the rich are becoming the
super-rich.
The government talks of lack of funds in providing pensions for the
poor,
widows and the handicapped. She expressed her concern about the prices
that are
rising by the day, thus creating innumerable problems for the women.
The recent hike in the
prices of
diesel, kerosene and LPG had become an additional burden for the women,
she
told. She criticised that the government has failed in containing the
corruption and every day a new scam is surfacing. “Some big guys are
transferring lakhs of crores of money abroad, hoodwinking the
governments. This
government should be ashamed of its lack of will in getting back the
crores of
black money in the foreign banks, where as it readily raises the prices
of the
essential commodities”, she said.
Karat lashed out at the
attitude of
the central and state government on the question of the rights of the
women, where they were behaving like
they are doing it out of charity. “We do not need your sympathy or
pity; we are
also the citizens of this country, we know pretty well as to how to
gain the
equal rights and fight for the sake of them”, she warned. She called
upon the
women to rise for the sake of their rights, with the inspiration
provided by
the heroic Telangana armed struggle that was fought for the land, bread
and
liberation from the bonded labor.
CPI(M) Central Committee
member
Thammineni Veerabadhram, newly re-elected state secretary of AIDWA
Swaroopa
Rani and president T Jyothi were among those who addressed the massive
gathering.
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