Democratic People’s Forum (DPF)
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DPF Organizes Ahmedabad rally on 7th
Novemeber with the slogans:
OUST Narendra Modi, Strengthen People’s
Alternative.
Gujarat
chief minister Narendra Modi is in power for ten years and has already launched
the election campaign for December elections
with an eye on hatric victory which will strengthen him to compete for prime minister ship after next
Lok Sabha elections. His campaigners are marketing him as a ‘steel man’ in the
mould of Vallabhai Patel, a ‘Vikas man’ who has led the state forward in the
path of ‘globalized development’and a ‘clean man’. When many cooruption chagres
are haunting him. In his inaugural election speech he tried to compare himself
even to Vivekananda. Pumping huge funds, communalizing the voters and
projecting false visions of a prosperous Gujarat the BJP band wagon is working
overtime for his victory.
But
even his main detractors like former BJP leader and chief minister, Keshubhai
Patel and the Congress from the ruling class camp are challenging his claims.
His conscious attempt to belittle and conceal the 2002 pogrom and its horrific impact on the society as a
whole and Muslim minority in particular are challenged even by the Congress
which still wear a secular façade. In the name of development he has made the
state the most open area in the country for imposing neo-liberal policies. Almost all the
corporate houses in the country and MNCs are provided maximum facilities to
loot the natural resources and labour. Making Gujarat maximum ‘investor
friendly’ means giving maximum subsidies and tax concessions. It also means
making the labour department one to serve the employers. Even private ports are
opened as SEZs. In the agricultural sector
finance capital, market forces and corporate forces with ‘forward
trading’ like speculative facilities are given free reign.
Privatization-liberalization are made supreme in every sectors, including education,
healthcare, drinking water etc.
Though
Narendra Modi is vocal against price rise, corruption, opening retail to FDI
etc, he and his party fully upholds the neo-liberal policies which have led to
this situation. He is a votary of contract system like Congress. If BJP with or
without Modi as prime minister comes to power at Delhi, as proved during
1998-2004, it will further speed up the UPA policies. Apart from that, in place
of Congress policy of appeasing all communal and caste forces, it will further
speed up Hindutva fanaticism and caste divisions. It will cut down even
whatever remnants of welfare policies are surviving.The disastrous policies of
BJP/Congress has led to scores of farmers suicide as well as several attacks on
dalits. Narendra Modi’s victory in the
elections will only lead to further intensification of subservience to
imperialist dictated policies and communalization. So it is the prime task of
all left, democratic and secular forces to tirelessly work for removing Modi
from power, to defeat him in the state elections so that his dream of prime
ministership is shattered.
While
‘Oust Narendra Modi’ slogan should reverberate all over the state and in the
country, what can be the alternative is a serious challenge before the people.
This is all the more important as Congress, BJP dissidents and other contesting
ruling class parties are pursuing the very same policies of Modi wherever they
are in power. Even while opposing the genocide of Muslims in 2002 and the
communal hatred created following it, none of them have a firm secular
approach. In this situation, in spite of the fact that the left forces are
weaker in the state, when the anger of the people against Naarendra Modi
government in the state and against the neo-liberal policies and their horrific
consequences at all India level are
mounting day by day, it is the responsibility of the left, democratic and
secular forces to work hard for uniting their forces and to strengthen the
people]s alternative with a basically alternative approach to development The DPF beliefs that left democratic forces
are the only alternative force that can save India from the clutches of
Imperialism ,Hunger and Poverty. The Left forces alone can combat the intrusion
of FDI,FII in all sectors.
It
is to put forward this basic approach with the slogans: Oust Narendra Modi,
Strengthen People’s Alternative’, the Democratic People’s Forum is
organizing massive people’s awareness
rally on 7th Novemeber at Anmedabad, with popular forces from all
all over the country joining hands with the left forces in the state The DPF
constituent in the state, New Socialist Movement, will field few candidates and
DPF shall mobilize a vigorous campaign during the elections to state assembly
with these slogans. We appeal to all secular, democratic and left forces to
join hands in this campaign for strengthening a people’s alternative to the
ruling class alternatives.
Convener
DPF
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