CPI demands special Parliament session on Food Security Bill

Opposing the UPA government's move to promulgate an ordinance on food security, Communist Party of India (CPI) today demanded a special session of Parliament to discuss the issue at length.
The Food Security Bill should be implemented after discussion in Parliament and UPA government should convene a special session for it, party general secretary S Sudhakar Reddy said at a press conference here.
On the issue of CBI's autonomy, Reddy said government was doing it half-heartedly and the affidavit filed in the Supreme Court by Centre appeared to be "incomplete or handicap".
Devaluation of Rupee showed that the country's economy was stuck in serious crisis and was a result of Centre's neo-liberal policies, he further alleged.

Congress-led UPA government was thrusting inflation by hiking prices of petroleum products which should be rolled back, Reddy demanded.
CPI was working to bring non-Congress and non-BJP parties on a common platform to provide an alternative, he said, adding that in the Left parties' meeting on July 1, a policy document was prepared on issues related to federal structure, foreign policy, secularism, price rise and corruption.

Speaking on the occasion, party secretary Atul Kumar Anjan said Left leaders including A B Vardhan have recently met Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha, JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav, SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav and JMM leaders for forming an alternative platform.

It was most unfortunate that both Congress and BJP were going to the next general elections focusing on either Rahul Gandhi or Narendra Modi, but ignoring issues of common people, Anjan alleged.
Rajasthan Loktantrik Morcha, a common platform of CPI, CPI(M), JD(S) and Samajwadi Party will be held here tomorrow to draw a strategy for the upcoming Assembly polls, he said.
CPI state secretary Tarsingh Siddhu said the party was considering to field 35 candidates in the elections.