Left parties demand YSRCP to take a stand on steel plant
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Protests continued for the second day towards the Union authorities’s proposed transfer to privatise Vizag Steel Plant (VSP), right here in Visakhapatnam.
Members from numerous Left parties, folks’s organisations and unions staged a large rasto-roko at Maddilapalem junction on Saturday demanding that the Centre withdraw its proposal instantly.
Raising slogans towards the Narendra Modi-led BJP authorities, the protesters staged an agitation close to Maddilapalem bus-stop. With slogans of ‘Visakha Ukku Andhrulu Hakku’, the protesters alleged that the BJP authorities favoured personal firms. The agitators criticised BJP chief Sujana Chowdary, who supported the Centre’s transfer. Secretary of CPI (M), Greater Visakha City Committee B. Ganga Rao dared Mr. Chowdary to come to Vizag and specific his opinion.
The protesters stated the YSRCP and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) shouldn’t simply announce their opinions, however ought to take half within the protests. They stated Jana Sena Party chief K. Pawan Kalyan ought to extreme his alliance with BJP and will be part of their agitation.
Meanwhile, a variety of protesters who have been attempting to block the nationwide freeway have been detained by the police.
Condemning the police motion, the members stated that as an alternative of supporting their trigger, the State fovernment was “illegally” arresting them. They stated that the YSRCP ought to announce that it was towards the Centre’s determination to privatise VSP. The State authorities ought to cross a decision within the Assembly on this regard and likewise oppose the transfer in Parliament, the members said.
Progressive Organisation for Women (POW) members M. Lakshmi and A. Vimala stated that not simply farmers, the BJP was towards labourers, small scale businessmen and middle-class folks, and wais solely favorable to company gaints. She stated that VSP was achieved by the folks after a lengthy agitation within the early Nineteen Seventies. The authorities’s determination was simply to profit the personal firms and it must be opposed by all of the folks, she stated.
Meanwhile the protesters got here down closely towards the Union authorities over the farm legal guidelines. Extending help to the farmers who’ve been staging agitation at Delhi borders, AITUC chief M Pydiraju stated that the federal government was placing all efforts to cease the farmer’s agitation, however in useless. He criticised the BJP authorities for arranging barricades and spikes on roads at Delhi border. Our protests will proceed supporting farmers, he added.
