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Modiji keeps people away from the reality by giving a new slogan everyday – Sitaram Yechury

13 Sunday May 2018

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“CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury today accused the Narendra Modi government of keeping people away from the reality and called upon all secular parties to join hands to oust the NDA government at the Centre.
“Like Manmohan Desai’s formula films, People do not find time to think about the slogan given the previous day,” Yechury said at a seminar on “Role of Left in Current National Situation”.
Alleging that giving slogans was a strategy of Modi, he said, “The prime minister did not speak on the current situation of the country while campaigning in Karnataka. He often speaks on (Jawaharlal) Nehru and (Sardar Vallabhbhai) Patel instead of saying what he has been doing.”
Yechury alleged that anti-romeo squad and private armies like cow protection groups were being raised and constitutional institutions attacked.
The country’s unity was in danger, he claimed.
Minority communities and Dalits were being attacked in the BJP-ruled states, he alleged.
The senior CPI(M) leader also denounced the Modi government’s economic policies.” (Press Report)

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Demonetisation: No Gain; Short Term & Long Time Pain – Sitaram Yechury

01 Friday Sep 2017

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The following very relevant questions were raised by Com. Sitaram Yechury, General Secretary CPIM) regarding Demonetisation in a Press Conference in Delhi on 31st August 2017. The government is duty bound to answer the questions. However, the Prime Minister and other responsible persons are avoiding the questions and hiding behind silence.

 

Some Questions that Demand Answers

1. Who decided to demonetise? (Was it the PM?) Is that the reason why Raghuram Rajan was forced to go?

2. More than 100 people died in queues, trying to get their own, hard-earned money due to PM’s announcement. Who is responsible? Why no compensation? Is there an FIR?

3. Reportedly, more than 100% of demonetised currency is coming back after Bhutanese, Nepalese and Coop Banks Currency is taken in. This shows it’s a successful Money Laundering scheme.

4. In Bengal and elsewhere too, BJP members were known to have made bulk deposits of massive amounts just before Demonetisation was announced. So it was the biggest scam of Independent India. So much for PM’s fight against corruption.

5. There was no mention of digitisation on Nov 8, but the the Economy crashed, the government went out of the way to help certain selected private companies under the mask of ‘digitisation.’ PM himself featured in full-page ads of a private company (Paytm). Why? Clearly to give a profit bonanza to international and domestic players.

6. Was this entire exercise done to protect the corporates who are refusing to return the loans they had taken from our nationalised banks which according to one estimate is around Rs. 11,00,000 crores, including interest? Was this done to prevent the banks from collapsing as a consequence of these loans? The government instead should have taken measures to recover these loans which is people’s money.

7. Corruption has far from ended. The amount of money in 2000 rupee notes is much more than the amount of money in 1000 rupee notes. Is that what the PM wanted? To help the corrupt rich?

8. PM’s claims on Counterfeit currency are wrong. This scheme has legitimised all counterfeit currency.

9. There were claims that this was to finish Terror. Far from it, numbers of security personnel lost to terror has gone up significantly since.

10. The Informal sector has collapsed. All data shows that this sector which employs more than two-thirds of our workforce has collapsed due to demonetisation. Lives, Livelihoods and Jobs have been decimated. This government is responsible for this.

11. Ill-Effects of demonetisation on rural markets and Agriculture, heightened the distress among farmers. Their protests have been met by police firing from BJP state governments.

12. Why were people imposed with a burden of printing new notes costing Rs. 8000 crores; ATM recalibration cost of over Rs. 35,000 crores in addition to the loss of economic activity estimated by the CMIE and others to the tune of Rs. 1,50,000 crores?

13. How much taxpayer money in ads has the centre spent to ‘ glorify’ the PM and Demonetisation?

14. The government must fix accountability for this disaster and punish those responsible.

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“Youth need education, good health and jobs… not cow protection Committees…” – Sitaram Yechury

09 Sunday Apr 2017

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“The youth need education, good health and jobs…not cow protection committees, anti-Romeo squads or issues on which they can be emotionally distracted from the main purpose of building a better India” – Sitaram Yechury, General Secretary, CPI(M)

Exactly!

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Two Indias, Shining India and Suffering India – Sitaram Yechury

26 Wednesday Mar 2014

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New Delhi, Mar 26 : Welcoming raising issues of corruption and inequality by Aam Aadmi Party, CPI(M) today said AAP needs to bring more clarity on its understanding of the ‘neo-liberal’ economic policies which were “responsible” for such a situation.

Replying to questions on AAP, senior CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury also said it was up to Arvind Kejriwal’s party to decide whether it would join the Left and other secular forces, but it could be decided only after the elections.

“It is good that they are taking up these issues…. but corruption has to be nipped at its genesis. The neo-liberal policies have expanded the scope of crony capitalism and corruption. We have to target these policies… and there, the clarity needs to come in (from AAP),” he told reporters when his reaction was sought on AAP raising issues which have been consistently raised by the Left in the past.

He also said AAP needed to clarify its understanding on communalism and expressed the hope that “clarity on both these issues will come up further during the campaign”.

Yechury, who released two campaign booklets titled ‘The Two India Reality: Obscene Wealth, Grinding Poverty’ and ‘To Build a Corruption Free India’, said the fight against corruption does not end at setting up of an independent Lokpal.

“While strict laws are needed to fight graft, the struggle to reverse the policies which have allowed corporates a free run to loot the resources of our country must be strengthened,” he said.

Asked whether CPI(M) would join a government of the Left and regional parties if such a combination came to power, Yechury said a decision would be taken by the party’s Central Committee after the elections.

Maintaining that both BJP and Congress were “committed to strengthening the neo-liberal framework of policies”, he said the economic inequalities have led to “two Indians – shining India and suffering India”. Yechury said India has 70 “dollar billionaires” in 2014, 17 more than 2013, whose combined wealth equaled Rs 24 lakh crore or nearly one quarter of the GDP. The top ten among them have personal wealth equal to six per cent of GDP.

“There is also a huge amount of undeclared assets, much of which has been taken out of the country.

“Against this obscene wealth, more than 80 per cent of the poverty-ridden masses have a daily per capita consumption expenditure of just Rs 50 or less in 2011-12. This was also true for nearly 45 per cent of all urban households,” he said, adding 93 per cent of the country’s total workforce was in informal employment with little social protection.

Half of India’s children under five are underweight or stunted and almost 60 per cent of women suffer from anemia, even after 66 years of Independence, the CPI(M) leader said.

Terming 2G as the “largest political corruption” in the history of modern India, he said the booklets listed all the major financial scandals under the UPA or the BJP state governments.

All these were a result of the policies the two parties have pursued that have pushed the people to “conditions of misery and a situation where they can barely survive”, he said.

Noting that there was “no dearth of resources in the country”, he said Rs five lakh crore had been “lost as revenue because of tax concessions granted to the rich and corporates”.

“The alternative is to collect the legitimate taxes, plugging the sources of corruption and stopping sweetheart deals through public-private partnership projects and invest the resources earned in social infrastructure,” he said.

Such huge investments in social infrastructure would enhance jobs and income, which would lead to higher demand and encourage manufacturing activities, Yechury said, adding this was the alternative policy direction the Left was pursuing in these elections.

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