CPI to 'rethink' on support to UPA Govt: Gurudas

Visakhapatnam, Apr 18: CPI Parliamentary party leader and AITUC General Secretary Gurudas Das Gupta today said the CPI will re-consider support to the UPA Government at the Centre for its 'failure to check prices of essential commodities' and in this context 'the coming Parliament session was 'important.'

Charging Union Finance Minister P Chidambram with not doing enough control to price, Mr Gupta said the Centre could neither check the price rise nor tackle scarcity of commodities.

Speaking to the media here, he said the UPA Government had also failed on Common Minimum Programme (CMP) and secularism and hence 'we are seriously having a rethink on supporting the government.' On Special Economic Zones (SEZs), the MP said there was no need for such zones for setting up industries. He also said the party was against FDI in retail.

The AITUC leader promised to take up the issue of printing warning signs on beedi packets as it could jeopardise those dependent on the industry for a living.

He also once again warned again on the environmental impact of allowing bauxite mining in Aruku Valley Agency Area, which could adversely impact the river systems.

UNI

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