IMPHAL, November 27: The State unit of the Communist Party of India will also stage a protest rally to show solidarity to the call for a rally of trade unions and left parties as part of the nationwide stir on December 5.
Speaking to media persons at the Irawat Bhawan this evening, trade union leader Sotin Kumar said that the trade unions of the NE States will be meeting on December 4 one day ahead of the rally in the State.
The CPI rally is expected to draw around 60,000 individuals including employees from both the private and public sectors and labourers under the trade unions, he said.
The rally participants will start off from their respective work places and head towards THAU ground where a mass public meeting will be held after the rally, he said.
Sotin Kumar said, the new NDA government at the Centre seems to be pro-corporate and anti-workers.
Meanwhile, speaking on the issue pertaining to the construction of a Sports University in the State, Loumi Marup Manipur president N Mangi said people of Koutruk and the nearby areas are offering a vast area of land for the Sports University and at the same time the government has a vast land reserved in Moirang area. Unfortunately, the government has insisted on constructing the Sports University at Yaithibi Loukon despite much opposition, he continued.
He said the people of Moirang will welcome the construction of the university in their area and at the same time, the present Congress government in its previous term had already acquired 420 acres of land for a proposed sports academy at Moirang Kangjeibung. The said site is historic and lies near the Water Sports complex at Takmu, he said.
He said the NDA government has reduced the wage component of the MGNREGS which was implemented by the Manmohan Singh led UPA-I which the CPI had also supported in the hope of providing some benefits to the rural populace.
He said during the Lok Sabha election, the BJP had included repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 195 from the State in its manifesto, however, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh who is also a former president of the party recently said that there is no plans to withdraw the AFSPA for now.
Now this could mean that the people have to face more killings and torture in the State by Indian security forces under the Act, he said.
Meanwhile, during the Prime Minister`™s visit to the State on November 30, the Loumi Marup Manipur will submit a memorandum to look into the failure of national projects taken up in the State including the Khoupum Dam, Singda Dam and Ithai Barrage project, Mangi who is a former minister of the State said.
He said the party will demand probes into all such national projects. At the same time, the party will also urge the Prime Minister to complete construction on the Thoubal Multipurpose project and Dolaithabi Multipurpose Project within 2015.