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India shakes as Communists rally against privatization and fuel price hike - popular uprising on the card!
India is ready to explode over two issues that can make the current Government fall! Sonia Gandhi is running to make a settlement with the Communists who are ready to fight fore the common people of India whom the Congress and BJP have neglected in the past five years.
Left parties on Tuesday held nationwide protests against the ruling Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) for raising fuel prices even as coalition chairperson Sonia Gandhi spoke to a top Communist leader.
International think tank believes, the communists in India are enjoying a popular uprising that can actually bring them to power for the first time in the next election.
According to media sources, Sonia reportedly spoke to Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) General Secretary Prakash Karat in the wake of the decision of four Left parties to suspend coordination meetings to protest the proposed disinvestment of public sector companies.
Despite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's efforts at a patch-up earlier, left activists pressed ahead with protests against the fuel price hike and stopped traffic in various parts of the country.
Waving red flags and banners, activists gathered at Delhi's crowded ITO intersection and proceeded, shouting slogans. Among key leaders spotted at the protest were CPI-M politburo members Brinda Karat and MK Pandhe.
"Our action is against the government for imposing a hike in the prices of diesel and petrol, thereby increasing the hardships of the common man," said CPI-M MP Dipankar Mukherjee, a member of the party-affiliated Centre for Indian Trade Unions (CITU).
The protestors mainly stopped traffic in various parts of the country, barring West Bengal, where the ruling CPI-M was holding a key meeting a day after transporters staged demonstrations on Monday.
The Prime Minister had earlier spoken to Karat to assure him that the Left's grievances would be addressed after Sonia Gandhi returned from Shimla.
The Left with 61 Lok Sabha MPs that props up the multiparty UPA has gone on the warpath against the Government on various economic policies, including the proposed sale of government equity in profit making public sector company Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited.
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