UPA govt pursuing anti-people policies, says Basu

Stating that the policies of the Centre were reducing job opportunities, he called upon the AIDWA members to question such policies.

“Given the class character of the Congress and its commitment to pursue economic policy of liberalisation, the party (CPM) was not for joining a government, but we decided to support the Congress-led government (at the Centre) so that the required numbers for a majority are ensured. It was our task to isolate and defeat the BJP,” he said.

Supporting the ongoing industrialisation moves in West Bengal, the CPM patriarch said the achievements in the agriculture sector would be in peril without a balanced growth of secondary and tertiary sectors through industrialisation.

“Only that can help release the growing burden of the work force dependent on agriculture and can ensure a more sustainable growth of the primary sector by adding much-needed value to it, thereby increasing income and employment,” Basu said.