Bharat Bandh a grand success in Bihar, Need to intensify sustained and protracted movement against anti people policies : SUCI (C)

Patna, September 20:

SUCI (Communist) activists came out on the streets and took out procession in support of Baharat Bandh today. The procession was taken out from Nala Road and traversing the main thoroughfares of the city reached Dak Bungalow Crossing. Holding cartoons depicting attacks on common people by the Congress led UPA Govt., the party supporters were shouting thunderous slogans against the anti people policies of the Central Govt. The procession was led by Shivlal Prasad, Indradeo Roy, both Member, SUCI (C), Bihar State Committee, Sadhana Mishra, Secretary, SUCI (C), Patna District Committee, Suryakar Jitendra, Anil Kumar and Anamika, all Members, SUCI (C), Patna District Committee. 

On this occasion Shri Shiv Shankar, Secretary, SUCI (C), Bihar State Committee termed the Bharat Bandh a grand success in Bihar and congratulated the common people of the State for it. Shri Shiv Shankar said that the anti-people decisions taken by the Congress-led central government in the interest of domestic and foreign monopolists like severe hike in the prices of petro-products, opening up retail trade to FDI, allowing the monopolists to acquire substantial stake in profit-making PSUs through disinvestment route, commercialization of education and healthcare and abolition of pass-fail system up to class VIII, have come as a serious blow to the plight and penury-stricken people. He said that in demand of immediate withdrawal of all these anti-people decisions, they called upon the common people in general and suffering people in particular of the state to build resistance movement against all these. He said that party workers and supporters came on the street and appealed the common people to make it a grand success in the districts of Muzaffarpur, Vaishali, Jehanabad, Aurangabad, Darbhanga, Bhagalpur, Munger, Madhepura, Rohtas, Khagaria, Jamui, Banka and other districts excepts Patna. He said further that more than hundred of workers and supporters across the state courted arrest and released later.