Our Correspondent
Tarn Taran, June 30

Comrade Bant Brar, state secretary of the CPI, has criticised the Central government for its economic and the ‘anti-people policies’ causing unemployment and rise in the prices of essential commodities, including petroleum products, in the country.

The communist leader was addressing a joint district-level rally organised by the CPI and the Revolutionary Marxist Party of India (RMPI) here on Wednesday. He alleged that the wrong policies of the Union Government had ruined the economy of the country as the public sector had been captured by the corporate sector and it was reason that prices of essential items had sky rocketed. He said atmosphere of fear or insecurity prevailing among the minority communities, Dalits and women were part of the fascist policies of the Central Government. He condemned the government for not resolving the farmers’ issues.

The workers of the Left parties organised a rally at the local Gandhi Municipal Park and passed through various streets of the town. Later, they burnt the effigy of the Prime Minister.