New Delhi: Launching a scathing attack on the Congress-led UPA government, CPI(M) on Sunday said the first three months of its rule has been marked by relentless price rise of essential commodities and blamed it for not doing enough to control the situation.
Giving a call for a nation wide stir with other parties on the issue of price rise, CPI(M) said at the end of its two-day full Polit Bureau meeting that though half the country has been hit by drought owing to deficient monsoon, "the UPA
government has done little to address the situation besides liberalising imports of commodities like sugar and announcing a diesel subsidy for the farmers".
The Polit Bureau said it will hold rallies in all state capitals in November and raise the issue of price rise and food security. It appealed to all its party units to make the campaign a success.
It added that the "drought is going to lead to a fall in agricultural production with rice production being badly hit.
This will further aggravate the price situation. The drought will cause great hardship to poor peasants and agricultural workers who will suffer from lack of employment".
In a statement, the The Polit Bureau reiterated steps like banning all future trading in essential commodities, strengthening the public distribution system, and dehoarding, which it said would check price rise.
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