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STUDENTS' FEDERATION OF INDIA .
a.
RESPECT PEOPLES' MANDATE: IMPLEMENT CMP ,.
Date: 08-02-05.
Friends, .
l.
The people of this country delivered a historic mandate in the last Lok Sabha elections, throwing out the communal BJP led ~.
NDA Government out of power. This mavdate was also agains.t the nee-liberal economic policies which is quite evident from the fact.
.
1hat both NDA's Chandrababu Naldu In AP and Congress' S M Krishna government in Karnataka faced the worst defeats in these .../ t.
elections for pursuing anti-people policies. These policies had resulted in unprecedented misery for the poor people of the country.
forcing thousands of farmers to commit suicide. In the backdrop of this mandate against the nee-liberal economic policies, the present.
.
UPA Government assumed office, with outside support from the Left. As a result of the pressure of the Left on the Congress to respect.
the mandate of the people, the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) was drafted, which tried to redress the problems of the poor by.
breaking away from the nee-liberal paradigm at least in a limited sense. The important commitments made in the CMP include the.
.
Employment Guarantee Act, stepping up of public investment in agriculture and phased increase in public spending on education and.
health in order to meet the targeted 6% and 2-3% of GOP respectively in five years. The CMP also committed not to disinvest profit.
.
making PSUs..
While the Government committed itself towards fulfilling the promises made In the CMP, practical implementations of these is.
far from realization. What in fact is being done is pursuance of the same set of neo,..liberal policies by the UPA The scope of the.
.
Employment Guarantee Act has been diluted to a great extent by limiting it to only certain districts in rural areas having no provision for.
a minimum wage clause. On the other hand, the burden of the expenditure to implement such a programme has been shifted to the.
state Governments which are anyway starved of resources. The money earmarked for increased investment in agriculture is totally.
inadequate to meet the problem of acute agricultural distress facing our country. In the field of education too, apart from a 2% cess, no.
extra allotment has been made. Instead of significantly boosting public investment in education to reach its own target of 6% of GOP,.
the Government is planning to introduce the Private Universities Bill to privatize our Universities. On the other hand, the Government.
.
totally violating its commitment has disinvested shares of the NTPC, one of the largest profit making PSUs of the country and planning.
to sell Public Sector PetroleumCompanies..
.
While the CongresS led Government is subverting the interests of the poor, it is serving the interests of metropolitan capital ,and the elites in our country. Huge tax concessions have been given to the rich going to the extent of withdrawing the capital gains tax ).
and dilution of the transaction tax proposed in the interim budget. On the other hand the Government has committed itself to maintain.
the fiscal deficit at the level of 4.5% of GOP. By this tokerr, in the absence of higher tax revenue, the only option before the \de 'I.
Gov~rnment is to cut back on public expenditure thereby putting into question the commitments of the Government for a higher public.
.
investment. ,a\.
The subservience of the Government before metropolitan capital is exemplified by its decision to raise the FDI cap in the.
telecom, insurance and civil aviation sectors. The Government in order to please its imperiaJist bosses attempted to implant members · ner.
from the World Bank and other imperialist agencies into the Planning Commission, which was thwarted only because of the pressures J\fl\\.
.
of the t eft and other progressive economists of our country. The issuing of the Patent Ordinance bypassing any discussion in the.
Parliament to please the imperialist interests exposes the total disregard of the Government for democratic decision making. This .the .
~m\c.
Ordinance rt enacted into a law will greatly subvert our technical self-reliance in fields like the pharmaceutical and software industries. .
The worst affected will be the poor of the country who will have to pay much higher prices for life-saving drugs. 1sure .
II.
Going by the economic policies of the present Government, it has become amply clear that the UPA ·is not serious about theimproving the plight of the poor in the country and is hell bent upon pursuing the nee-liberal agenda. In this context it is only the Left ients.
which is continuously opposing every anti-people move of the Government. Not stopping at that, the Left has managed to reverse 1M.A..
certain policies like the cut back on the Employee Provident Fund interest rates. But in order to ensure that the lives of our fellow i\ng apeople improve and the communal BJP does not come back to power, it is imperative upon the Left to build up broad based )ppose.
movements to force the Government to Implement the CMP. In the wake of the forthcoming budget, the Left has proposed that for the 1ates..
implementation of the CMP, an extra sum of Rs 50000 crores are to be allocated under different heads. In order to mobilize such a , large amount, the Left has also proposed to increase the tax-GOP ratio by doing away with all tax concessions and imposing new nontne taxes on the rich along with reducing the defense expenditure. In the coming days, as conscious students of the country, it is our duty Jbm\tted .
to m?~ilize l\e ma}ar.
~rge nurnber of students against the policies of the Government and ensure that the Government respects the mandate byprovt?tng relief to the common people. We would like to appeal to all the students to participate in large numbers in today'\t nor the.
meeting to analyse the economic policies of the UPA and chalk out the course of future struggles. s public ,~nuous\Vn\ttinQ te .
ONWARDS TO XXVII JNU UNiT CONFERENCE h\S mattef, TALK BY: :ablfity andiemandsof.
PROF. UTSA PATNAIK .
fac\\\tv etc.
TOPIC:UPA'S ECONOMIC POLICIES: BETRAYAL OF THE MANDATE ate 08-02-0"S(TONIGHT) 9:00PM .
SUTLEJ MESS.
Sdl-Sd/-,ent, J~~f\.
.
Subhanll Chowdhury,President, SA-JNU Parfmal Maya Sudhakar,Secretary, SA-JNU .
.
PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2002 ID-42096
.
--· _.. n.,.?.005 .
STUDENTS' FEDERATION OF INDIA .
a.
RESPECT PEOPLES' MANDATE: IMPLEMENT CMP ,.
Date: 08-02-05.
Friends, .
l.
The people of this country delivered a historic mandate in the last Lok Sabha elections, throwing out the communal BJP led ~.
NDA Government out of power. This mavdate was also agains.t the nee-liberal economic policies which is quite evident from the fact.
.
1hat both NDA's Chandrababu Naldu In AP and Congress' S M Krishna government in Karnataka faced the worst defeats in these .../ t.
elections for pursuing anti-people policies. These policies had resulted in unprecedented misery for the poor people of the country.
forcing thousands of farmers to commit suicide. In the backdrop of this mandate against the nee-liberal economic policies, the present.
.
UPA Government assumed office, with outside support from the Left. As a result of the pressure of the Left on the Congress to respect.
the mandate of the people, the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) was drafted, which tried to redress the problems of the poor by.
breaking away from the nee-liberal paradigm at least in a limited sense. The important commitments made in the CMP include the.
.
Employment Guarantee Act, stepping up of public investment in agriculture and phased increase in public spending on education and.
health in order to meet the targeted 6% and 2-3% of GOP respectively in five years. The CMP also committed not to disinvest profit.
.
making PSUs..
While the Government committed itself towards fulfilling the promises made In the CMP, practical implementations of these is.
far from realization. What in fact is being done is pursuance of the same set of neo,..liberal policies by the UPA The scope of the.
.
Employment Guarantee Act has been diluted to a great extent by limiting it to only certain districts in rural areas having no provision for.
a minimum wage clause. On the other hand, the burden of the expenditure to implement such a programme has been shifted to the.
state Governments which are anyway starved of resources. The money earmarked for increased investment in agriculture is totally.
inadequate to meet the problem of acute agricultural distress facing our country. In the field of education too, apart from a 2% cess, no.
extra allotment has been made. Instead of significantly boosting public investment in education to reach its own target of 6% of GOP,.
the Government is planning to introduce the Private Universities Bill to privatize our Universities. On the other hand, the Government.
.
totally violating its commitment has disinvested shares of the NTPC, one of the largest profit making PSUs of the country and planning.
to sell Public Sector PetroleumCompanies..
.
While the CongresS led Government is subverting the interests of the poor, it is serving the interests of metropolitan capital ,and the elites in our country. Huge tax concessions have been given to the rich going to the extent of withdrawing the capital gains tax ).
and dilution of the transaction tax proposed in the interim budget. On the other hand the Government has committed itself to maintain.
the fiscal deficit at the level of 4.5% of GOP. By this tokerr, in the absence of higher tax revenue, the only option before the \de 'I.
Gov~rnment is to cut back on public expenditure thereby putting into question the commitments of the Government for a higher public.
.
investment. ,a\.
The subservience of the Government before metropolitan capital is exemplified by its decision to raise the FDI cap in the.
telecom, insurance and civil aviation sectors. The Government in order to please its imperiaJist bosses attempted to implant members · ner.
from the World Bank and other imperialist agencies into the Planning Commission, which was thwarted only because of the pressures J\fl\\.
.
of the t eft and other progressive economists of our country. The issuing of the Patent Ordinance bypassing any discussion in the.
Parliament to please the imperialist interests exposes the total disregard of the Government for democratic decision making. This .the .
~m\c.
Ordinance rt enacted into a law will greatly subvert our technical self-reliance in fields like the pharmaceutical and software industries. .
The worst affected will be the poor of the country who will have to pay much higher prices for life-saving drugs. 1sure .
II.
Going by the economic policies of the present Government, it has become amply clear that the UPA ·is not serious about theimproving the plight of the poor in the country and is hell bent upon pursuing the nee-liberal agenda. In this context it is only the Left ients.
which is continuously opposing every anti-people move of the Government. Not stopping at that, the Left has managed to reverse 1M.A..
certain policies like the cut back on the Employee Provident Fund interest rates. But in order to ensure that the lives of our fellow i\ng apeople improve and the communal BJP does not come back to power, it is imperative upon the Left to build up broad based )ppose.
movements to force the Government to Implement the CMP. In the wake of the forthcoming budget, the Left has proposed that for the 1ates..
implementation of the CMP, an extra sum of Rs 50000 crores are to be allocated under different heads. In order to mobilize such a , large amount, the Left has also proposed to increase the tax-GOP ratio by doing away with all tax concessions and imposing new nontne taxes on the rich along with reducing the defense expenditure. In the coming days, as conscious students of the country, it is our duty Jbm\tted .
to m?~ilize l\e ma}ar.
~rge nurnber of students against the policies of the Government and ensure that the Government respects the mandate byprovt?tng relief to the common people. We would like to appeal to all the students to participate in large numbers in today'\t nor the.
meeting to analyse the economic policies of the UPA and chalk out the course of future struggles. s public ,~nuous\Vn\ttinQ te .
ONWARDS TO XXVII JNU UNiT CONFERENCE h\S mattef, TALK BY: :ablfity andiemandsof.
PROF. UTSA PATNAIK .
fac\\\tv etc.
TOPIC:UPA'S ECONOMIC POLICIES: BETRAYAL OF THE MANDATE ate 08-02-0"S(TONIGHT) 9:00PM .
SUTLEJ MESS.
Sdl-Sd/-,ent, J~~f\.
.
Subhanll Chowdhury,President, SA-JNU Parfmal Maya Sudhakar,Secretary, SA-JNU .
.