We negated Cong harmful effect on India: Left

The Left parties said that they had negated all the "anti-people" policies of the UPA govt which heightened the burden on the people and compromised national sovereignty.

Hitting back at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for describing them as “regressive”,the Left parties said that they had negated all the “anti-people” policies of the Congress-led government which heightened the burden on the people and compromised national sovereignty.

“This is the Prime Minister who went on record expressing his deep love for (former US President) George Bush. The Congress party should have included this in their election manifesto,” CPM General Secretary Prakash Karat told reporters in New Delhi.

Releasing the Left parties’ appeal to the people,he said the Manmohan Singh government acted on the basis of “the agenda of the Indo-US CEO Forum”.

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This was an outcome of the strategic alliance with the US and there was “pressure to change the course of independent foreign policy,the military cooperation agreement,the nuclear deal and the US-dictated economic agenda”.

All this taken together was “a negation of the Common Minimum Programme of the UPA government”,Karat said.

“Yes,we negated all the harmful things the Congress led government wanted to do. We negatived all their wrong policies. That is what the Prime Minister is acknowledging today,” CPI General Secretary A B Bardhan said,giving examples of dilution of equity of PSUs,privatising bank and insurance sectors and investing pension funds in the stock market.