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People have lost faith in Governments: Nanjundaswamy
By Our Staff Reporter
KOTTAYAM, DEC. 5. Mr. Nanjundaswamy, leader of the Karnataka Rajya Ryot Sangh, has pointed out that the international situation had changed to such an extent that citizens could not even count on their elected Governments and legislative bodies to resolve their problems.
Inaugurating a farmers' meet organised by the Kerala Samsthana Karshaka Sanghatana (KSKS) under the CPI(ML) Red Flag, Mr. Swamy stressed the need to form joint resistance movements by the people from all walks of life and hoped Kerala too would join the struggle.
According to him, during the last 10 years, those in power, including the bureaucrats, instead of serving the people, were engaged in an effort to prove their loyalty to their international masters.
Instead, they should have taken the people of this country into confidence, he pointed out. He had time and again approached successive Governments at the Centre with the request to distribute translated copies of the Dunkel Doctrine (which formed the basis of the present globalisation process) to the people for a detailed popular discussion.
However, this request was never heeded, he said.
According to him, the current crisis in the agriculture sector could be traced back to the strategies being adopted by the Western nations to continue their supremacy in the agriculture sector.
While they have asked other nations to cut their agriculture subsidy, these nations have not cared to do so, he pointed out.
Mr. Rajaram Singh, CPI(ML) MLA from Bihar and leader of the Karshak Sangharsh Samithy, in his address stressed the need for a concerted action by the farmers, farm workers, service employees and all progressive and Left forces against the designs of the multinational forces.
According to him, with the opening up of the Indian economy, all the major internal markets are being flooded with products of multinational firms with the Indian products finding it difficult compete.
India has got a massive market of more than one billion and it is enough to sustain our indigenous economy. However, with the opening up of the market, the indigenous economy was at a loss, he pointed out.
He also expressed apprehension over the claims of those who endorsed the Doha Declaration as a success for Indian interests.
Even the Union Commerce Minister has been quoted as saying as there was an avalanche of draft resolutions and the final resolution was brought out of the blue.
This clearly points to the facts that the Indian team was not at all prepared for the final resolution that was passed at Doha. Instead of making its complaints here, the Indian team should have made its voice heard there, Mr. Singh said.
Alleging that the Union Government was selling off Indian interests to multinational companies, Mr. Singh said that instead of complaining that the nation would have been isolated at Doha, the country should have taken the lead in putting up a joint front with the help of other South Asian nations.
The seminar also passed a resolution recommending both short-term and long-term measures to resolve the crisis in the agriculture sector.
Mr. C.K.P. Padmanabhan, secretary, Kerala Karshaka Sanghom, was among those spoke on the occasion.
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