CPI(M) Stages Delhi Rally Against India–US Trade Deal and Price Rise

Overview

• The party drew hundreds to Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi to protest the India–US trade deal and a slate of central policies.
• Speakers pointed to rising food and fuel costs and shortages of cooking gas, saying these pressures are squeezing household budgets.
• General secretary M A Baby said the party will keep focus on people’s problems and challenged claims that the Left has disappeared outside Kerala.
• The CPI(M) listed demands that include withdrawing labour-code notifications, scrapping a new rural jobs and livelihoods law, blocking power-distribution privatisation, and dropping planned Seed Bill changes.
• The rally capped weeks of state-by-state ‘Jan Akrosh Jathas,’ and coverage reflected CPI(M)’s position with no response from the Centre in these reports.