'Make in India' campaign a 'deceptive fraud': CPI

Lashing out at the Make in India campaign of the BJP led NDA government to boost production,CPI today said it was a 'deceptive fraud' and the real agenda was to allow multinationals in small and medium industries, which would result in deindustrialisation of the country.
"The government's 'Make in India' bogey projected to boost production and export is nothing but a deceptive fraud because their real agenda is to allow multinationals in small and medium industries with a call to come and make profit in India, resulting in de-industrialisation of our country", a resolution at the ongoing 22nd national congress of CPI said.

It said the economy had been facing crisis in the past two decades "due to implementation of neo liberal policies at the dictates of IMF and World Bank."
The policies of NDA government were increasingly hostile to peoples' interests and landed the economy in a further crisis,it said, adding their last two budgets showed "the commitment to open up our economy to unrestricted foreign investment even in core sectors like defence, railway, banks, insurance and retail sector".
Dubbing these economic policies as having an adverse impact on unemployment problem, it said they had resulted in accumulation of wealth in the hands of a few at the cost of the deprivation and degradation of the poor.

These policies would further widen the gap between haves and have-nots, lead to more social distortions and disparity, further fuel social tensions and disharmony, it said and called for a nationwide movement to compel the government to take back the decisions.

The CPI in another resolution took exception to the government's move to reduce budget allocation for Centrally sponsored welfare schemes.
Another resolution described the issue of crime against women as a societal problem and said the party was concerned at the increasing crime and violence against women.
The party condemned attacks on free speech and urged all to come out in defence of freedom of expression and defend the constitutional rights to protect democracy by showing solidarity with writers, journalists and artists.

It alleged that the Hashimpura incident was a 'failure' of the system of prosecution and judiciary and demanded that the case be reopened and proceedings be fast tracked in a time bound manner to ensure punishment to the guilty.