Left to stage protests on Amit Shah’s rally day

PATNA: The Left parties in Bihar would hold demonstrations while observing social distancing norms from district to the polling booth levels on June 7 against the scheduled address of Union home minister Amit Shah to the state BJP’s ‘virtual rally’.
The leaders of the Left parties said they would observe June 7 as ‘vishwasghat/dhikkar diwas’ to underscore the role of PM Modi’s policies that caused economic disaster as well as mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic while ignoring the plight of migrant workers and the poor in the state.
They demanded payment of Rs7,500 per month to each migrant worker and the poor for six months, besides ration cards, food, job under MNREGA to the needy, creation of work opportunities and Rs20 lakh compensation to the migrant workers who died due to neglect and mismanagement during return to the state.
The leaders who jointly announced the protest programme included Dhirendra K Jha and K D Yadav from the CPI(ML), CPI state secretary Satya Narayan Singh and secretariat member Vijay Narayan Mishra, as well as CPM state secretary Awadhesh Kumar and the party’s senior functionary Arun Kumar Mishra, among others.