Addressing an election meeting at Bhiwani in support of Master Sher Singh, the CPI(M) candidate from Bhiwani-Mohindergarh constituency, CPI(M) Central Secretariat Member Nilotpal Basu accused both the Congress and BJP of permitting the loot of wealth and natural resources belonging to the people, by big corporations and global finance capital.
He said that the projection of Modi, as the Prime Ministerial candidate by the corporate sector, is aimed at more and more naked sell out of precious resources and their ruthless exploitation by suppressing democratic protests of the suffering masses, as has been done in Gujarat. The real face of the so-called Gujarat model is actually the unbridled concessions offered to big monopoly capitalists.
68-year old Master Sher Singh, the CPI (M) candidate from Bhiwani-Mahendergrah, is a retired teacher and the president of Haryana unit of the All India Kisan Sabha. Prior to his retirement he was a popular leader of the Sarva Karamchari Sangh, the government employees union and the teachers union. The SKS led several powerful movements in the state and Master Sher Singh was always in the forefront.
The seat is currently held by the Congress. The peasantry of the area face some severe problems including lack of irrigation and increasing input costs in agriculture. The area is industrially very backward. Caste oppression in all its brutal forms is prevalent in the area and the Party has been fighting against it.
CPI(M) Haryana State Secretary, Inderjit Singh said that it is only the red flag and no one else which defends the rights of peasants, workers, employees, women and dalits etc. and appealed to the people to vote for Master Sher Singh.