CPI marks centenary with rally and public meeting in Visakhapatnam

An awesome rally with reddish flags and banners was taken retired by CPI workers and activists from Saraswathi Park to the Gandhi statue adjacent the GVMC connected Friday to people the centenary twelvemonth of the party’s formation. The rally concluded with a nationalist meeting.

Addressing the gathering, CPI nationalist assembly subordinate J.V.S.N. Murthy said the CPI was the lone governmental enactment successful India with a century-long past of struggles connected behalf of the communal people. Over the past 100 years, the enactment had fought for workers, the economically mediocre and farmers, who unneurotic constituted astir 90% of the population, helium said. The CPI had led struggles against the zamindari strategy nether the slogan ‘land to the tiller’ and was instrumental successful the organisation of astir 10 lakh acres of onshore to mediocre farmers.

Mr. Murthy said the CPI was the archetypal governmental enactment to rise the slogan of ‘Complete Independence’ from British regularisation and had actively participated successful the state struggle. It had besides fought for the constitution of nationalist assemblage industries, operation of irrigation projects and the nationalisation of banks. Communist leaders had made respective sacrifices and gone to jailhouse portion warring for people’s causes, helium said.

Referring to the ‘Veera Telangana’ struggle, Mr. Murthy said the Communists had revolted against the Razakars and the Nizam Nawabs, successful which implicit 4,000 leaders and enactment workers laid down their lives. He alleged that BJP leaders, who did not enactment successful the state movement, were present attempting to alteration the sanction of the MGNREGA scheme, named aft Mahatma Gandhi. While the Communists were waging struggles for the extortion of nationalist assemblage undertakings, the contiguous rulers were promoting privatisation to favour firm groups, helium alleged, and called upon enactment workers to basal firmly with workers opposing privatisation.

CPI State assembly subordinate Chalasani Raghavendra Rao, State Control Commission caput A.J. Stalin, State assembly members M. Pydiraju and A. Vimala, and AITUC nationalist vice president D. Adinarayana besides addressed the meeting. CPI territory caput Sk Rahaman presided. CPI State adjunct secretaries P. Chandrasekhar and Kasireddy Satyanarayana were among those who participated.