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Left protests against Food Security Bill provisions | | Left parties on Friday staged a protest against some
of the provisions of the Food Security Bill, and demanded changes in the existing
Public Distribution System (PDS). The four Left parties - the Communist Party
of India (CPI), the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), the Forward Block
and the Republican Socialist Party (RSP) demanded an increase in the quota from
existing 25 kg per family to 35 kg per family, while decreasing the price from
Rs.3 per kg to Rs. 2 per kg. Interacting with mediapersons here, CPI-M politburo
member Brinda Karat slammed the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for
exporting the food grains to feed foreign cattle when Indians were suffering from
malnutrition. “When you have got five crores of surplus food grains over and above
the buffer that you are supposed to have, why you are exporting it at subsidised
prices? For what? To feed foreign cattle while our own people are dying of hunger?
Therefore, we have told the government to stop export,” Karat said. Earlier, representatives
of the four Left parties sat on a five-day protest from Monday (June 30) till
Friday (August 3). |
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