RSP critical of LDF

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, MAY 31. The Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) has taken serious note of the Left Democratic Front's poor performance in the recent Kerala Assembly polls and said the style of functioning of the LDF Government required a detailed study.

At the end of its two-day central committee meeting here today, the party general secretary, Mr. K. Pankajakshan, said all front partners were urged to identify, through self- introspection and self-criticism, the negative features of their activities and style of functioning in order to rectify them.

While maintaining that the United Democratic Front (UDF) was helped by fundamentalist parties, the RSP held the LDF responsible for its inability to campaign against the alignments as well as the economic policies initiated by the Congress and implemented by the BJP-led NDA Government at the Centre.

The Congress was able to reap benefits in the elections on account of the ``political and organisational'' failure of the Left parties to build-up a continuous and united movement of the toiling people against the Centre's anti-people policies.

On the invitation to Pakistan's Chief Executive, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, the RSP said the sudden change in stance of the Vajpayee Government was a ``clear dictate of the U.S. imperialism'' and asked the Centre to convene an all-party meeting to decide on the agenda for discussion with the visiting Pakistan dignitary.

Condemning the implementation of economic reforms, it said the steps taken by the Government were making the working class and people in general, poorer. It deplored the proposal to downsize Government employment and the Finance Minister's trespass into the domain of the Labour Minister by announcing in his budget, the impending changes in the Industrial Disputes Act and the Contract Labour Act.

It criticised the reduction in the rate of interest on Provident Fund and Small Savings and the move to raise Rs. 12,000 crores through disinvestment of public sector undertakings to meet fiscal deficit.

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