Stir a step to divide people: RMPI

Tarn Taran, June 4

Members of the Revolutionary Marxist Party of India (RMPI) on Monday organised a conference to pay tributes to party leaders, including Deepak Dhawan, who sacrificed their lives for the country while fighting militants and communal forces.

Speaking on the occasion, Comrade Mangat Ram Pasla, national secretary, RMPI, termed the ongoing agitation by farmers a move to create a division between farmers and the labour class. He said the ongoing protest would also lead to a division between rural and urban population. Pasla said stopping the supply of milk, fodder and other products to towns was an anti farmers’ move, affecting the marginal farmers.

“Balbir Singh Rajewal and Ajmer Singh Lakhowal, farmer leaders, who are leading the agitation, are the mouthpieces of the ruling parties and have no sympathy with farmers. They have been serving their personal motives at the cost of farmers,” Pasla added.

Lashing out at the Union Government, he said the wrong policies of the government had badly deteriorated the economic situation of the country and as a result, the prices of petroleum products had been on the rise. The RPI leader alleged the BJP was dividing people on religion grounds. He also accused the state government of not fulfilling its pre-poll promises. —OC