Communist Party of India (Marxist) - Diesel price hike https://elections2014.cpim.org/tags/diesel-price-hike en Stop Increase in Prices of Petrol & Diesel https://elections2014.cpim.org/content/stop-increase-prices-petrol-diesel <div class="field field-name-field-social field-type-addthis field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style " addthis:title="Stop Increase in Prices of Petrol &amp;amp; Diesel - Communist Party of India (Marxist)" addthis:url="https://elections2014.cpim.org/content/stop-increase-prices-petrol-diesel"><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="standard"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_facebook"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_twitter"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_email"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_"></a> </div> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://elections2014.cpim.org/sites/default/files/singh_petrol_price_rollback.jpg" width="360" height="240" alt="petrol_price_rollback" title="petrol_price_rollback" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2013-02-16T00:00:00+05:30">Saturday, February 16, 2013</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">The CPI(M) demands the cancellation of the price hike and the restoration of the administered price mechanism. To protest against this added burden on the people, the Party calls upon all sections of the people to support and join the general strike called by the Central Trade Unions on February 20 and 21, 2013.</span></p><div align="right" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"><b>Press Statement</b></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">&nbsp;</div><div align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"><b>Stop the Price Increase of Petrol and Diesel</b></div><div align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"><b>&nbsp;</b></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly protests the hike in the price of petrol by Rs. 1.50 per litre&nbsp; and the monthly hike in the price of diesel by 45 paise.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Since the deregulation of petrol pricing, there is a constant and steep increase in the price of petrol. In the case of diesel, the price rise will be continuous on a monthly basis.&nbsp; The government is only adding to its tax revenues by such escalating prices of petroleum products and increasing the profits of the oil companies at the expense of the common people.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">&nbsp;</div><p style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">The CPI(M) demands the cancellation of the price hike and the restoration of the administered price mechanism. To protest against this added burden on the people, the Party calls upon all sections of the people to support and join the general strike called by the Central Trade Unions on February 20 and 21, 2013.&nbsp;</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/diesel-price-hike" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Diesel price hike</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/petrol-price-hike" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">petrol price hike</a></div></div></div> Tue, 26 Feb 2013 05:59:22 +0000 animesh 2128 at https://elections2014.cpim.org https://elections2014.cpim.org/content/stop-increase-prices-petrol-diesel#comments Massive Response to Protest Day https://elections2014.cpim.org/content/massive-response-protest-day <div class="field field-name-field-social field-type-addthis field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style " addthis:title="Massive Response to Protest Day - Communist Party of India (Marxist)" addthis:url="https://elections2014.cpim.org/content/massive-response-protest-day"><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="standard"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_facebook"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_twitter"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_email"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_"></a> </div> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2012-09-20T00:00:00+05:30">Thursday, September 20, 2012</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><!--break--> <div align="center"><b> </b></div> <div align="right"> </div> <div> </div> <div><b>Press Statement</b></div> <div> </div> <div>The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:</div> <div> </div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"><b> </b></div> <div>The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) congratulates the people for the massive response to the protest day on September 20, 2012.  Eight parties had given a call for observing the day through hartal, picketing and court arrests against the steep rise  in prices of diesel, limiting of gas cylinders and opening retail trade to FDI.  The NDA had also called for a bandh on this day.</div> <div> </div> <div>The hartal has been successful in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamilnadu, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand and other states.</div> <div> </div> <div>In West Bengal, there was a total strike.  Vehicles and traffic was off the roads; shops and markets were closed; workers in the industrial establishments and tea gardens were on strike and schools and colleges were closed.  The strike call was implemented despite attacks on Left Front workers by TMC goons in a number of places.</div> <div> </div> <div>In Tripura, there was a complete bandh all over the  state with all offices, markets and educational institutions closed.</div> <div> </div> <div>In Kerala, a hartal was observed on September 15, therefore the day was observed through protest marches in all the 140 assembly constituencies under the banner of the Left and Democratic Front.</div> <div> </div> <div>In Delhi, leaders of the eight parties among them Mulayam Singh Yadav, H. D. Deve Gowda, Chandrababu Naidu, Prakash Karat, S. Sudhakar Reddy, A. B. Bardhan, Ram Gopal Yadav and Sitaram Yechury courted arrest at Parliament Street.</div> <div> </div> <div>In Tamilnadu, Left leaders and cadres conducted picketing in 200 places. More than 50,000 protestors were arrested.</div> <div> </div> <div>In Odisha, the BJD has called for a protest day on September 17 due to the Nuakhai festival in western Odisha.  The Left parties and the Samajwadi party called for a hartal on September 20 which was observed widely with transport, shops and commercial establishments closed. </div> <div> </div> <div>In Maharashtra, there was no strike in Mumbai because of Ganesh Chaturthi. Protest demonstrations and local strikes took place in various cities and towns.</div> <div> </div> <p>The widespread support for the hartal manifested the anger of the people against the anti-people measures taken by the UPA government.  The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) demands of the Manmohan Singh government  that it cancel the FDI in retail, the disinvestment of public sector shares, rollback the price hike  of diesel and restriction on gas cylinders.  The struggle against these anti-people measures should be intensified in the coming days.   </p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/september-20-protest" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">September 20 Protest</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/hartal" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">hartal</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/fdi-retail" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">FDI in Retail</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/diesel-price-hike" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Diesel price hike</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/disinvestment" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Disinvestment</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/cooking-gas" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Cooking Gas</a></div></div></div> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:22:47 +0000 murali 1513 at https://elections2014.cpim.org https://elections2014.cpim.org/content/massive-response-protest-day#comments Roll Back These Anti-People Measures https://elections2014.cpim.org/content/roll-back-these-anti-people-measures <div class="field field-name-field-social field-type-addthis field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style " addthis:title="Roll Back These Anti-People Measures - Communist Party of India (Marxist)" addthis:url="https://elections2014.cpim.org/content/roll-back-these-anti-people-measures"><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="standard"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_facebook"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_twitter"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_email"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_"></a> </div> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2012-09-19T00:00:00+05:30">Wednesday, September 19, 2012</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><!--break--> <div align="right"> </div> <div><b>Press Statement</b></div> <div><b> </b></div> <div><b> </b></div> <div>The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:</div> <div> </div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"><b> </b></div> <div>The UPA government has been plunged into a crisis after the announcement by the Trinamul Congress of the withdrawal from the government and the UPA.</div> <div> </div> <div>The Manmohan Singh government had announced FDI in retail trade, sharply increased the price of diesel, limited the supply of cooking gas cylinders and initiated disinvestment in some of the top public sector enterprises. These policies and measures are totally against the interests of the people of the country.</div> <div> </div> <div>None of these measures have the support of parties across the political spectrum. It is clear now with the stand taken by the allies of the Congress in the UPA that a majority of the members of Parliament are against these policies. The Congress-led UPA government does not have the mandate or the right to push ahead with these policies.</div> <div> </div> <div>The CPI(M) will intensify the struggle against these measures to get them reversed. All parties who have come out against these policies should support the all India protest action on September 20. Unless the Manmohan Singh government rolls back these anti-people measures, it has no right to continue in office.</div> <p>  </p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/fdi-retail" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">FDI in Retail</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/diesel-price-hike" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Diesel price hike</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/upa-government" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">UPA government</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/september-20-protest" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">September 20 Protest</a></div></div></div> Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:15:01 +0000 murali 1512 at https://elections2014.cpim.org https://elections2014.cpim.org/content/roll-back-these-anti-people-measures#comments Nationwide Jt. Protest on Sept. 20 https://elections2014.cpim.org/content/nationwide-jt-protest-sept-20 <div class="field field-name-field-social field-type-addthis field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style " addthis:title="Nationwide Jt. Protest on Sept. 20 - Communist Party of India (Marxist)" addthis:url="https://elections2014.cpim.org/content/nationwide-jt-protest-sept-20"><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="standard"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_facebook"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_twitter"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_email"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_"></a> </div> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2012-09-15T00:00:00+05:30">Saturday, September 15, 2012</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><!--break--> <div> </div> <div align="right"> </div> <div align="right">September 15, 2012</div> <div align="right"> </div> <div align="right"> </div> <div><b>Press  Release</b></div> <div> </div> <div>The leaders of the Samajwadi Party, Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Telugu Desam Party, Biju Janata Dal, Janata Dal (S), All India Forward Bloc and Revolutionary Socialist Party have issued the following statement:</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div align="center"><b>Nationwide Protest Day on September 20 </b></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>The UPA government has stuck cruel blows on the people one after another. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>·        It has raised the price of diesel by Rs. 5 per litre stoking price rise and burdening the farmers.</div> <div> </div> <div>·        It has limited the subsidised gas cylinder per family to six and the rest will have to be bought at the market price which is more than double.</div> <div> </div> <div>·        It has opened the multi-brand retail trade to foreign supermarket chains endangering the livelihood of more than four crore people occupied in retail trade and the mass of consumers.</div> <div> </div> <div>·        It is selling off shares of profitable PSUs and navaratna companies like NALCO and Oil India.</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>We appeal to the people to rise in protest against these anti-people measures. </div> <div> </div> <div>We appeal to the farmers, workers, women and youth to join the protest.</div> <div> </div> <div>We appeal to the transporters, shopkeepers and traders organisations to join the struggle.</div> <div> </div> <div>We appeal to all sections of the people, all patriotic-minded citizens to join the movement.</div> <div> </div> <div>Let us all unite to stop these measures which will further burden the people and ruin their livelihood.</div> <div> </div> <div>Let there be a powerful protest on September 20 through hartals, pickettings, demonstrations and court arrest programmes. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div align="center">Sd/-</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>Mulayam Singh Yadav, President, Samajwadi Party                  </div> <div>H. D. Deve Gowda, President, Janata Dal (S)</div> <div>Prakash Karat, General Secretary, CPI(M)</div> <div>S. Sudhakar Reddy, General Secretary, CPI</div> <div>Naveen Patnaik, President, BJD</div> <div>Chandrababu Naidu, President, TDP</div> <div>Debabrata Biswas, General Secretary, AIFB</div> <div>T. J. Chandrachoodan, General Secretary, RSP</div> <p>  </p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/september-20-protest" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">September 20 Protest</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/lpg" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">LPG</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/diesel-price-hike" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Diesel price hike</a></div></div></div> Sat, 15 Sep 2012 09:47:08 +0000 murali 1511 at https://elections2014.cpim.org https://elections2014.cpim.org/content/nationwide-jt-protest-sept-20#comments Roll Back This Hike https://elections2014.cpim.org/content/roll-back-hike <div class="field field-name-field-social field-type-addthis field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style " addthis:title="Roll Back This Hike - Communist Party of India (Marxist)" addthis:url="https://elections2014.cpim.org/content/roll-back-hike"><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="standard"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_facebook"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_twitter"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_email"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_"></a> </div> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2012-09-14T00:00:00+05:30">Friday, September 14, 2012</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><!--break--> <div>The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:</div> <div> </div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"><b> </b></div> <div>The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly condemns the unprecedented hike in the price of diesel and the limiting of six cooking gas cylinders per family per year. The hike in the price of diesel will have a cascading inflationary impact imposing greater burdens on the already suffering people. Agricultural sector and farmers will particularly suffer. The limiting of cooking gas cylinders will adversely impact on the livelihood condition of crores of families across the country.</div> <div> </div> <div>This UPA II government’s reasoning that such hikes are inevitable because of the `burgeoning losses’ of oil companies is a patent falsehood. The oil and natural gas giant, ONGC, declared a net profit of Rs. 25,123 crores for the year 2011-12.  For the next quarter ending June 30, 2012, it has reported a further growth in profit of 48.4 per cent.  The IOC has reported a net profit of Rs. 4,265.27 crores for 2011-12.  The Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) reported a net profit of Rs. 911 crores.  Interestingly,  for the last quarter of the fiscal, January-March 2012, its net profit increased by 312 per cent.  The Bharat Petroleum has reported a net profit  of Rs. 1,546.68 crores. </div> <div> </div> <div>This UPA II government is thus committing a gigantic fraud on the Indian people.</div> <div> </div> <div>The CPI(M) calls upon all its units to organize strong protest actions against the imposition of such severe economic burdens. The CPI(M) calls upon all secular opposition forces to unite in protests to force the UPA II government to roll back this unreasonable hike in the prices of diesel and limiting cooking gas cylinders. </div> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/diesel-price-hike" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Diesel price hike</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/cooking-gas" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Cooking Gas</a></div></div></div> Fri, 14 Sep 2012 06:03:07 +0000 murali 1510 at https://elections2014.cpim.org https://elections2014.cpim.org/content/roll-back-hike#comments