GUJARAT

Huge Meeting Against Hike in Power Tariff , 

Oil Price and Educational Fee

IN Gujarat, the CPI(M) has taken up cudgels against the recent hikes in electricity rates, educational fees and edible oil’s price, effected by the state government run by the BJP.

Responding to the appeal made by the state committee of the CPI(M), its Rajkot district unit recently held a vary huge public meeting attended by well over ten thousand people at the Main Road in Jungleshwar, with the party’s state secretary Arun Mehta as the main speaker. The meeting was presided over by Umarbhai Sumra, a veteran leader of Rajkot and one of the founder members of the party in the district. Sudhir Joshi (NCP), Ramchandran, Jivanbhai Thoria, Dinu Kantaria, Dahyabhai Gajera, Dalpat Niranjani, Vinoobhai Ghervada, Ismailbhai Ghativala and Aziz Darji also addressed the meeting.

The CPI(M) has already chalked out further programmes for protest. These include demonstrations in front of the MLAs’ houses and offices, demonstrations in front of government offices, memos, dharnas and gheraos, etc.

The state unit of the CPI(M) is already in the thick of preparations for the fortnight long nationwide campaign from August 16 to 31, the call for which has been given by the CPI(M) Central Committee.

In Gujarat, the CPI(M) is striving to rebuff the series of attacks being launched by the state government upon the people, and also foil the tricks the ruling BJP is playing to divide various sections of the masses in order to prevent a united struggle from taking shape. The CPI(M)’s effort is directed at bringing the masses into the streets, to whatever extent it can.