After CPM, CPI charges Mulayam govt with incompetence

Lucknow, Oct 16 (UNI) A day after the Communist Party of India (Marxist) slammed the Mulayam Singh Yadav government for following anti-labour and anti-farmer policy, the CPI today charged the ruling dispensation with favouring selected industrialists at the cost of the common man.

CPI general secretary Gurudas Dasgupta said here that the state government, instead of filling 5 lakh vacancies in government and public sector, was providing the youth with unemployment allowance, which was a wasteful expenditure.'' ''A government's job is to fill up vacancies...the unemployment allowance is merely aimed at securing votes for the coming assembly elections,'' he told reporters.

Mr Dasgupta alleged that two industrial houses were dictating policies to the government to further their personal interests. ''I do not wish to name them, but we all know who they are,'' he said.

The Communist leader maintained that SP general secretary and UP Development Council chairman Amar Singh ''was very open in helping the industrialists.'' Claiming that people should vote out the ruling dispensation in the coming assembly elections, the CPI leader maintained his party was against imposition of President's rule in any state.

''The SP wants to befriend the BJP to get re-elected...but this should not happen,'' he added.

Yesterday, the CPI(M) had slammed the state government for following anti-people policies. A State Executive meeting of the CPI(M) had passed a resolution condemning the state government for its pro-rich policies. The meeting was chaired by CPI(M) leader Prakash Karat.

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